As mentioned in the previous post, packing up after the thunderstorm was very, very wet. Our camping gear was wet. We were wet. The campsite was wet. Pretty much everything we owned was wet. We had to wait for breaks in the rain and then dash around trying to pack a little bit at a... Continue Reading →

Heat, steepness, overgrowth, large animal noises...yeah, our first real experience of going "up" was...interesting. It was tiring, but also shorter than expected. But the views made it well worth it, before we sped down back to the coast. After a relatively long and uneventful - yet gorgeous - few hours, we eventually reached a long... Continue Reading →

Because we'd never done anything remotely like this before, there were a few things we tried to factor into the planning to make the whole experience a little easier.The first was our camping setup.After much humming and hawing, we realised that we were going to be spending around three weeks living in tents, and the... Continue Reading →

After many, many years of travelling—primarily backpacking, staying in hotels and apartments, and getting around by trains, buses and planes—we decided it was time to do something rather different from our usual style of travel.We'd already experimented a little. We'd spent a month in Malaysia doing something of a staycation, renting an apartment and settling... Continue Reading →