Hiking is one of our favorite activities. It’s an opportunity to enjoy nature, find scenic lookouts, get some exercise, and best of all it’s free! We were really excited to set out on some of New Zealand’s wilderness and we found great hikes for our first few!
We came across this 2 hour loop our first day touring east Northland. As our guidebook (NZ Frenzy by Scott Cook) says, it’s a bit of everything! Continue reading
The Internet finally worked long enough for us to upload photos. Here is the complete gallery for our last post Koh Pangnan, Thailand. Continue reading
We left on a bus from a 711 in Phuket and traveled across southern Thailand. As we’ve previously observed, the travel company used stickers to keep everyone’s destination straight. The journey was uneventful. The bus dropped us off at a ferry terminal that was full of hundreds of other travelers waiting around. We walked around a building looking for some information, but only found a food court so we decided to walk down the long jetty where the boats were parked. Continue reading
After an overnight bus ride from Singapore, we arrived at the Penang bus station before sunrise and were ambushed by multiple cabbies. We were actually the only two left on the bus and they even boarded the bus to try to be the first to snag us. We fought through the crowd and picked the most respectable looking cabbie to head to the guesthouse. It was only 7:30 when we arrived but thankfully they let us check in early and we spent most of the morning organizing and researching what to do in Georgetown. Continue reading