We returned to the UK after two years backpacking, with the plan to work in a restaurant for 6-12 months, save up for our next trip and see friends and family, maybe even put some roots down. But things haven’t gone quite to plan. Corona virus came along and fucked things up. The restaurants we…
Tag: nature
BEST DESTINATIONS FOR HIKERS WHO LOVE THE MOUNTAINS
We hadn’t really seen mountains before we started our travels back in 2008 and we certainly had no idea what it felt like to explore the great outdoors. It was something we’d never tried but we soon realised the beach towns didn’t give us the same amount of joy that a long hike through jungle…
Highlights from two years backpacking around the world
In January 2018 we set off for another long stint abroad. This time we wanted to visit some new countries and return to a few favourites. So here’s a roundup of what we got up to and some of our best photos from the trip. NORWAY After spending a month roadtripping around Norway and falling…
Our first impressions of Egypt and a disastrous boat trip on the Red Sea
Egypt’s never been high on my destination list, but it was so close to Turkey and we had a few weeks spare before we headed home so it was decided. We would have 17 days and our first stop was Hurghada on the Red Sea – mainly because it was the cheapest place to fly…
A sky filled with hot air balloons and hiking through Cappadocia’s valleys
It’s like a hot air balloon festival every day in Cappadocia, that’s what makes it so special. Saying that, the trips don’t depart every day due to the weather and out of our five mornings they only departed on two of them. We wanted to view the balloons from a different area but in the…
Sunrise at Love Valley and hiking with stray dogs in Cappadocia | Turkey
We arrived in the little village of Göreme at 4am where a group of four gigantic dogs greeted us off the bus. The sky was pitch black and the air freezing cold but lamp posts led us to our hotel. Of course the dogs followed us right to the door and one even took a…
Visiting the terraced pools of Pamukkale | Turkey
I’ve had my eyes set on visiting the thermal pools of Pamukkale for awhile and finally we were making it happen. A bus took us inland from the Mediterranean coast and I had the joy of sitting in front of a child who relentlessly kicked my chair. Instead of staying in Pamukkale itself we opted…
Finding the hidden gem of Kabak and our favourite beach in Turkey
As soon as I read about Kabak I put it on my list of places to visit in Turkey. It’s a bit of a hippy hangout in a lush valley with camps scattered up the hillside and dreamy views in every direction. The cheapest accommodation I could find was a tent with real beds inside…
Paragliding over Ölüdeniz | Turkey
Ölüdeniz is one of the top paragliding destinations in Turkey so we signed ourselves up to do a tandem jump off the 1960m Mount Baba. On our way to the office our driver pointed to the sky where a dozen or so paraglider’s looked like a flock of birds. We were piled into a mini…
Ghost towns, Ölüdeniz Beach and Saklikent Gorge | Turkey
We based ourselves in Fethiye to explore the surrounding area as there was a lot to see and do. The main area we wanted to visit was Ölüdeniz’s blue lagoon which I found out we could actually hike to via the ghost town of Kayaköy. We began by walking up some steep roads behind Fethiye…
Coastal hikes and roasting marshmallows on a fiery mountain | Cirali, Turkey
A brutal red eye flight took us from Jordan to Turkey. We arrived in Antalya, a city on the Mediterranean coast at around 4am and hadn’t slept a wink. But our journey wasn’t over, we had to take the first tram of the day to the bus terminal. I was resting my head on my…
Wadi Rum 4×4 Tour and Desert Camp | Jordan
We’ve seen a lot of deserts on our travels, and to be honest I don’t think anything will be as memorable or impressive as Utah and Arizona in the States. So I wondered if it was worth visiting Wadi Rum desert in Jordan and began google searching “if I’ve seen Utah or the Sahara is…
