“Be careful out there, it’s very addictive,” warned our hut ranger Grace, as she bade us farewell from Clinton Hut with a twinkle in her eye. We already knew that, of course. Afterall, this had been our third try at booking the Department of Conservation (DOC) huts on the Milford Track. Armed with learnings from […]
I love dinner times on a multi-day hike in the backcountry. Any hot food tastes absolutely divine after a full day tramping on the trails – just focusing non-stop on placing one foot ahead of the other with a 7kg backpack on the shoulders. Along the way, the stunning vistas had tugged at our heartstrings […]
It’s not every day that you can claim to have cycled from Italy to Austria but really, the stunning 46km bike route from Dobbiaco/Toblach to Lienz is something any leisure cyclist can do – and have lots of fun while at it. The route is mostly paved and gently downhill with several alpine villages along […]
Lake Toba is the largest volcanic lake in the world and holds a huge island in the middle – Samosir – with a size larger than Singapore. The Northern Sumatra region is also home to the stunning Sipiso Piso, a 120m plunge waterfall that’s one of Indonesia’s highest and Mount Sibayak, a beautiful […]
After confirming our trip to New Zealand, at the top of our list was to experience one of its Great Walks in the Southern Alps – either the Milford, Kepler or Routeburn Track. All three are incredibly popular and even though we had been 6 months ahead, the huts for Milford were full and almost […]
If you were to win a pair of tickets to anywhere in the world, where would you go? That was the million-dollar question (okay, more like three-thousand-dollar question) after winning the Amex Travel Hacks contest in June 2016. Just by simply submitting my ‘top 3 travel hacks’ on a Facebook contest page, I had won […]
Although the peak of Phu Chi Fa extends into Laos’ borders, the entrance to the national park is in Thailand. The nearest international airport is Chiang Rai. From the city of Chiang Rai, there are a few ways to reach Phu Chi Fa. When we were there (Dec’15), there was a small counter at the […]