Josh & Penny have 3 kids and miss being able to travel!
Ok so I know our entries are appearing to come from the distant past which may be confusing some of you (hi mum!)… and all (3) of you are probably wondering what’s going on so I just wanted to give you a quick update: Penny is still pretty unwell and doesn’t really feel like sitting…
We spent last night at Uncle Tans basecamp, which had terrible food, but we didn’t really care that much because Penny is umm… a little under the weather. She’s like Lilly from How I met your mother… she doesn’t like people to imagine what she looks like unwell, so I wont elaborate…
This morning we got the shuttle to the Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, about an hour away. Josh was extremely doubtful about the appeal of the monkeys…
Day 2 of diving was equally amazing….we started at a beautiful reef and had luckily managed to lose our diving companion from Day 1. He was a beginner, like us, and managed to constantly cause havoc throughout the dive, kicking us in the head and managing the rip the regulator (breathing piece) out of my…
We flew from KL straight to Tawau, a small town on the coast of Borneo in the region of Sabah. We had to re-clear customs here but it didn’t take very long because it was a small flight and a small airport. We had a driver waiting for us from our scuba dive company and…
Sorry for the delay.. we’ve been away from the internet and our days have been pretty packed. This is the first chance we’ve had to stop and take a breath… so before Sarina has a heart attack, here’s out first post…
Hi everyone! If you’re just joining us, everything below this entry is from our last trip through China, but we just wanted to leave a note to say we’re off to Borneo tomorrow morning, July 31st 2011, so stay tuned for some mildly interesting and slightly amusing stories, one of which will almost certainly involve…
This will be the last entry for our China trip. We’re sitting in the Hong Kong International Airport, which is nice, but not as nice as the one in Singapore. Our flight leaves in an hour and we both wish we had more to say about Hong Kong, but I think our brains had already…
We flew from Guilin to Ghangzhou, then straight back up north to Zhanjiajie (which I will refer to as ZHJ from now on, so I can type less), via an online ticket I found, which cost us a total of $400 AUD (total). Penny thought it was wrong of me not to tell everyone we…
Following our recent string of small disasters involving any attempt to follow a map while in sparsely populated areas, we were justifiably nervous about venturing into the Dragons Backbone Rice Terraces. Our daring plan (which seemed perfectly reasonable before we found ourselves wheeling bikes through crops and vicious brambles yesterday) was a 5 hour hike between the villages of Pingan and…
ok so day 4 in Yangshou… Look I know some people aren’t down with the excessive length of my posts but honestly, this one is worth settling in for… some of our posts need a little creative massaging, even if it’s just in choosing what to talk about, to try and make them more interesting… but…
It was with much relief that we got on our train to Guilin, leaving Kunming far far behind. We ended up with another fairly vigorous snorer in our sleeping bay, but this time we were armed with ear plugs. Josh joined in the snoring at one point, so I had to lean over and poke…
So we finished up in Tiger Leaping Gorge and took a minibus back to our starting point, Lijiang, which is a small city about 2 hours away from the Gorge. Lijiang’s old town has been world heritage listed by UNESCO and we went back to the same hostel we stored our luggage at, which is…
Hi everyone… we’ve been out of internet range for a few days but we’ve just added 3 entries, in reverse chronological order (newest first…). So please scroll down to the last one you read and start from there.. We’re on our way to Kunming, then Guilin, then Yangshou, via train and bus, so our next…
The first challenge after leaving our lovely guesthouse on the second gorge day was the infamous “28 bends”…a series of steep switchbacks that take you high up the mountain, to its peak at 2500m above sea level. Despite Josh’s claims throughout the climb that he was close to having a heart-attack, we made it to the 28th…
So we flew out of Chengdu at 7AM and into Lijiang. From the airport we took a bus into the centre of Lijiang, then a cab out to the Old town where we’d booked a hostel. We stored our luggage at the hostel and heading by cab straight to the bus station. It was 10:42 and we split…
Chengdu may be a smoggy, car choked city with few attractions (or ‘craphole’ if you prefer) but its one major draw-card makes the trip more than worth it.
ok so when we first came through Chengdu a few days ago, we arrived by train and took a 15-20 minute cab ride through the city to the bus station. On the way, we commented that the place looked like a real craphole… it didn’t have any character, and there were 3 KFCs visible from…
After we left you last night, we ventured to Bean Curd Pudding Fish restaurant for dinner, being unable to find anywhere else with a better name.
… unpunched. For those of you that didn’t read the last entry (and I’m deeply hurt by that by the way), Penny mentioned that after our less than convenient 28 hour train/bus combo to get here, I vowed that if this place sucked, I would punch myself in the groin.