Tag: Moped

  • Petroglyphs and Motorbiking on Ometepe Island

    Petroglyphs and Motorbiking on Ometepe Island

    From the lagoon we got a taxi to the nearest town of Masaya. Before entering Nicaragua we’d heard that it wasn’t the safest country (only in terms of petty crime like theft etc) and we’d been advised to get tourist shuttles and avoid local transport like buses, which is what we’d done so far. But…

  • Exploring Sri Lanka’s Southern Beaches

    Exploring Sri Lanka’s Southern Beaches

    After doing some research about Sri Lanka’s south, we decided just to take the plunge and see for ourselves… You can read blogs and articles and reviews, but at the end of the day, everyone’s opinion is different and sometimes you just can’t beat trying it out for yourself. So we jumped into a taxi…

  • Avoiding tourists in Kandy and Ella

    Avoiding tourists in Kandy and Ella

    It was calming and relaxing on the beach at Nilaveli, but after just an hour of snoozing in the sun, Pete piped up that he ‘was bored’ haha. I think this was a slight exaggeration, but it motivated me to look at the next leg of the trip and make a final decision about which…

  • “Culture” in Ubud

    “Culture” in Ubud

    We took a minibus from Kuta to Ubud and arrived quite late. We checked into a place that had been recommended to me by several people, Happy Mango, but we found it to have little of the atmosphere and friendliness that I’d been promised, so the following day we moved across the village to Sania’s…