Visiting the Hopper Glacier from Karimabad sounded like a great little day trip but it proved to be rather challenging without a private car. We began with a hitchhike down to the main road with a lovely elderly couple that insisted if we come to Peshawar that we must stay with them. From the junction…
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Exploring the Hunza Valley | Karimabad, Pakistan
The hunza valley is a top attraction for anyone visiting the mountains of Pakistan. It’s a fascinating area, riddled with lush green valleys, mountain peaks and glaciers. The people living here are Ismaili Muslims which we’ve been learning about from chats with the locals. Aga Khan is their spiritual leader who currently resides in Portugal….
Playing cricket on the highest natural stadium in the world | Pakistan
Way up at 2600m and set beneath the 27th highest mountain in the world is a perfect oval of greenery home to the highest natural stadium. We based ourselves in the tiny village of Pisan in a little homestay surrounded by fruit trees. It was a lovely location with large windows offering views of the…
Exploring the blue lakes in Naltar Valley | Pakistan
A lot of blogs I read suggested Gilgit wasn’t worth visiting and it was just a transport hub but we decided to spend a couple nights in the town. We didn’t arrive until the late afternoon so we just popped to a busy street near our hotel to look for some food and sip lots…
Fairy Meadows and the 9th highest mountain in the world | Pakistan
Fairy Meadows is probably Pakistan’s top tourist attraction, it’s accessed via one of the worlds most dangerous roads and then it’s a 3 hour hike to reach the meadows. We woke early in the village of Tato and set off by 7am under clear blue skies. It didn’t take long to get out first view…
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…
From the mountains to breaching whales | Western Australia
Australia isn’t well known for it’s mountain landscapes, it’s the white sandy beaches and wildlife that dominate the tourism brochures. But in the south western corner of Australia sits The Stirling Range which stretches 65km. The tallest point is Bluff Knoll at 1059m which is where we’re heading today. What struck us the most was…
Exploring Australia’s best beaches | Lucky Bay and The Duke of Orleans
It was a photo of Lucky Bay with its pure white sand, unreal blue water and kangaroos that made me want to plan a trip to this area of Australia so I was pretty excited to be heading there today. We booked two nights in the Lucky Bay campsite at a whopping $40 per night…
Moped adventures around Siquijor Island | The Philippines
It’s been a long time since we last rented a little moped, I think it was in Myanmar when we whizzed around on a cute little e-bike exploring the ancient temples. Craig always does the driving because I can’t be trusted. He tried teaching me in Thailand back in 2009 on what we thought was…
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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