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…
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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…
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…
Hitchhiking to beautiful sights around Skardu | Pakistan
Skardu is surrounded by jagged mountains on all sides. When we visited in August the snow had all melted and it looked more like a mountainous desert landscape in Oman. We’d already hiked up to Marsun Rock which I shared about in a previous post but this is what we got up to on our…
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…
Cuddling calves, crazy roosters and taming horses | Life on an animal sanctuary
Our first few weeks volunteering at the animal sanctuary involved preparing food and cleaning which meant the only animals we were actually working with were the chickens and roosters – some of which had black belts in karate. Craig was attacked twice by two different roosters, the first attack was by Winter who was the…
Quokka’s, idyllic beaches and a dark history | Rottnest Island
Rottnest island as it’s commonly known was originally named Wadjemup by the traditional owners of the land. It translates to ‘the land across the sea where the spirits are’. Today it’s one of the top day trips to do from Perth and just an hour ferry ride from Fremantle so we whizzed downhill on our…
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…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 