Author: Libbytes
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Road Trip to Milford Sound
Of all the things to do on the South Island of New Zealand, visiting Milford Sound was the top thing I wanted to do. It’s really close to Queenstown as the crow flies, but to drive there takes about 4 hours. We set off really early and Rob drove us in his car. Simone even…
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Wonder in Queenstown, NZ
Week 2 of our 3 week adventure to Thailand, New Zealand and Indonesia. Our 4 back-to-back flights later, we landed in Queenstown, New Zealand. This leg of the trip was really the main reason why we booked this flight; Pete’s best friend Rob moved to New Zealand 5 years ago and he has only seen…
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Motorbiking in Chiang Mai
Stage 3 of our big Easter adventure! After driving around Northen Thailand for the past 5 days, we decided to change things up a little and hire a moped for our final 2 days in Chiang Mai. If you’ve read previous posts of my travels you’ll know that one of my absolute favourite things to…
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Driving the Mae Hong Son Loop
Stage 2 of our Easter Adventure We left Chiang Mai on Tuesday morning after picking up our little jeep. We decided to drive the loop in a clockwise direction, heading first to Mae Chaem via Doi Inthanon; Thailands tallest peak. We set off and instantly discovered how uncomfortable our little jeep was, bouncing all over…
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Cycling around Chiang Mai
We arrived at the airport nice and early and took our time eating some lunch and doing a bit of shopping before the first 16 hour flight to Bangkok. The flight was uneventful and we landed around midday the next day in Thailand. We’ve been here before, so we calmly made our way down to…
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Big Easter Adventure to Thailand, New Zealand and Bali… Are we crazy?
Since booking the flights for this trip and telling people what we are doing, most think we are crazy to do so much in so little time and ask why we booked it. The simple answer is that the flights were on a super special sale with Emirates and we managed to bag all the…
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Is everyone who writes a travel blog a narcissist?
Ok that’s a bold statement, especially since I have my own travel blog, but it’s a serious thing that I have thought about a lot because, I don’t want to be, but I probably am… First of all, why do people write travel blogs? Having read quite a lot of ‘about’ pages and also thinking…
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How travelling ‘didn’t’ change me…
You see a lot of people talking about how travelling and backpacking for a prolonged period of time changes them. I’d like to talk about how I think travelling did the exact opposite. I didn’t change. In fact, travelling prevented me from changing… Just think about it. When we are younger, generally speaking, we have a…
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Giraffes and Zebra in Lake Mburo National Park
The drive to Lake Mburo National Park (LMNP) was along roads we had been before. We headed south from Kichwamba before joining the main road to Masaka. As I have commented previously, we still couldn’t get over how many people walk on the roads here. All life is centred around the main roads. The markets,…
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Safari self drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park
From lake Bunyonyi we continued North towards Queen Elizabeth National Park, the most popular national park in Uganda thanks to it’s countless animals including elephants, hippos and lions. The drive there was quite long but extremely scenic, even when it rained, it was great to experience, the rain drops were huge, flickering from rain to…
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