Kashgar has been an important stop along the Silk Road for the past 2000 years. It sits in the far western corner of China in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. The old city has mostly been demolished and rebuilt, many people don’t like it because it now has a Disney-style feel to it and…
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Hitching, hiking and boating adventures | Attabad Lake, Pakistan
It was a photo of the blue waters of Attabad Lake that inspired me to travel to Pakistan and today is the day that we get to see it in real life. To get there we were hitching and our first ride was in the classic Pakistani little Suzuki car which have an open rear…
Landslides and the world’s most dangerous road | Pakistan
The journey from Skardu to the main highway was about 200km of wiggly roads with 16 people squeezed inside a tiny van. Our plan for today was to travel to the popular Fairy Meadows and we needed to move quickly as we had a long way to go. As luck would have it the passenger…
Flying alongside mountains and hiking Marsun Rock | Skardu, Pakistan
In all our travels we’ve never received a text message at 10:30pm the night before a flight to tell us that the plane would now be departing 2 hours early. If we’d of gone to bed slightly earlier we’d of missed the message and the flight too. Luckily we were able to make it to…
Truck art, friendly locals and colourful mosques | Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Craig was up all night with diarrhoea, maybe from the pani puri that we ate when the lady next to us said “be careful, you will probably get diarrhoea from that”. I was fine though so who knows but it was a terrible day for it to happen as we were about to spend 5…
Our first impressions of Pakistan | Lahore
Pakistan has been on our radar for a few years and now we’re finally making it happen! We flew from the delightful temperatures of a Perth winter to the oven-like heat of Lahore. There was a crowd of men waiting at the arrivals, all wearing a shalwar kameez which is the traditional two piece outfit…
Goat sitting in suburbia | Fremantle, Australia
After our camping trip around the south western corner of Australia we looked into volunteering positions and the first one we signed up to was in Fremantle, just south of Perth. It was for two weeks and only required 10 hours a week so we could look after our hosts hens and goats while they…
Exploring the little island of Malapascua | The Philippines
We wanted a fairly easy trip in the Philippines with little travelling and more relaxing so we tried to pick islands that were fairly close to each other but we didn’t do a great job of that. Today we were travelling from Moalboal to Malapascua which is a tiny car-less island just above the northern…
Flying to the Philippines and our first few days exploring Siquijor Island
Our flight from Seoul to Cebu in The Philippines was an uncomfortable one. I had a mum next to me with an oversized baby with extra long limbs on her lap who was borderline at the stage of requiring it’s own chair. After a huge tantrum with ear piercing screams the baby fell asleep, along…
A crazy mountain hike and our first Korean BBQ | Seoul
Many people visit South Korea for the food, the shopping and the beauty products which seem to be all over social media at the moment. Those aren’t really our interests so our plan was to do something a little different and take a hike in Bukhansan National Park which is just an hour north of…
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