Travel photos and journals from across Asia [1997-2025]
After such a great trip to the UK last year I vowed to return and bring the family this year for a couple of months. No greater introduction to the motherland would beat a trip to London so we gambled on the spring weather and jumped on the Tube at Elm Park. There would be…
We decided to make use of the long weekend by getting on the road again with a truck full of tents, camping gear, fishing rods, three days food supplies, an esky of beer, and a paddle board. Since we usually travel south it was decided to venture north for this trip to Kaeng Krachan dam…
I don’t think anyone has attempted this before so four intrepid adventurers set off from a bridge over the road opposite Bangsaphan hospital and kayaked the river through town and out to the ocean, ending the 15 or so kilometer journey at Coco Bar. Along the way we witnessed a lot of flood damage, personal…
Seeing in 2017 away from it all on a secluded beach with a couple of tents, paddle board, kayak, fishing rods and barbecue. No parties, no crowds, phone signals, no wifi, no video games, no freakin facebook – what could be better!?
JAN 9, 2017: A month later Bangsaphan floods again after a week of rain … DEC 6, 2016: Three days of solid torrential rain, high tides and some lemon opening the local dam resulted in some of the worst flooding the area has seen for a decade. The video and most of the photos were…
Schools were closed for half term so it was time to wrench the kids away from the wifi and get on the road. This was our first unplanned trip where we booked nothing and just rocked up from day to day at different places, stopping along the way if we spotted anything of interest. We…
I’m not going to do my usual photo trip report here as a lot of it was personal and visiting family so I’ll post a series of observations and comparisons to living in Thailand and Asia along with a few photos. The following observations are simply what I saw, felt and experienced on a 5…
We had planned to do very little on our first day in Yogyakarta (pronounced locally as Jogja), so the pool at the Puri Pangeran hotel made a good excuse for just that. In the afternoon we took a walk to Malioboro Street which is the main tourist strip for shopping. I was expecting something similar…
After speaking to other travellers who had done the hikes we decided to avoid the crowds on jeep tours at the lookout point and make our way across the “black sand sea” to Bromo itself for sunrise. The National Park fees for foreigners were steep to say the least at 900k/$70 for all of us…
The Bromo Tengger National Park is a pain to get to and from so we did a little research online and mulled the idea of using one of the many tour companies that offered overnight trips there. As with anything booked online in Indonesia the prices quoted were outrageous; between 5 and 6 million rupiah…
My Thai bank cards were useless outside of Thailand so we’d booked a flight via an agent on Gili Air from Lombok to Java with Lion Air for 1.2 million Rupiah (plus 15% agent commission). The ride to the airport took under an hour and by early afternoon we’d landed in a very wet and very…
Again, boat rides and any form of transport involving westerners is heavily regulated and accordingly price hiked. We booked a boat over to Lombok and van ride down the coast to the resort town of Sengiggi for 300k for the four of us. Before we even landed on the beach on Lombok the taxi bandits…
It was time to move on so we headed to Padang Bai the next morning to get on the fast boat to the Gilis. The tourist boats are all tightly, almost mafia, controlled and heavily price regulated costing up to 700k ($55) per person in high season, luckily the guys in our hotel got us…
Flying directly from Bangkok to Bali was the most cost effective method of getting the four of us to the area of Indonesia we wanted to explore on this trip. Air Asia took us to Denpasar for $370 USD after a couple of days in the Thai capital to break up the long rail journey…
It was time to get back on the road so we hired a car (Honda Jazz this time) for a few days, bid our farewells to our hosts at Homestay Chiang Rai and headed east towards the Laos border. Our final destination was the Phu Chi Fa viewpoint but we thought we’d take the scenic…