Catching up on blog posts from our last trip…Taiwan ones coming soon! Where? When initially planning our trip, one of the big questions was around Fernando de Noronha- should we go? Located about 350 Kilometres off the northeast coast of…
Pipa Beach
Little House in Pipa Despite considerable beach time already, we were still ready for more. The easy two hour journey from Natal turned into one of our worst, as we had to take a small, non-air conditioned bus in extremely…
Broken Canoes, Dune Buggy Photoshoots and the Southern Cross
Guest post by Jonathan Baggs I’m interested in astronomy, so one of the things I really hoped to do when we were in Brazil was see the Southern Cross constellation. Whenever we’d been able to see the stars I was…
Love Tunnels and Dead Sandals in Icarai
Getting to Icarai de Amontada After the bustling tourism scene of Jericoacoara, we were ready for a quieter scene. The fishing village/small beach town a few hours east, Icarai, sounded exactly what we needed. Like all great places, it wasn’t…
Ilha Grande- Penal Colony turned Island Paradise
It wasn’t easy to leave behind our beautiful apartment in Rio for the prospect of four nights of camping, but we knew Ilha Grande would be worth it. A formal penal colony, it was now a tropical paradise accessible from…
On the Road Again- Brazil
Sao Paulo After nearly three years, we were on the road, or rather, in the air. With flights from Vancouver grounded a few days before our flight due to the winter storms, which had now moved towards Montreal, Cheryl and…
Diani Beach- The Nicest Beach on the Kenyan Coast, Apparently.
With Marieke still feeling the effects of a stomach bug she had in Mombasa, we decided to grab a Bolt taxi to the pier, to walk on the ferry to get across the water to the southern Kenya coast. Our…
Smuggling Gin and Knives on the Train from Nairobi to Mombasa
After a lot of camping at Lake Navaisha and in the Maasai Mara, we were pretty excited about the prospect of staying in an apartment for a few days in Nairobi, which ended up costing less than three beds in…
Transiting in Tanzania Part II- Sumbuwunga to Kigoma
Waking at 5am in Sumbuwanga, I was pleasantly surprised when breakfast was being made for me. It was included in the room price but when I asked it it would be available so early, I had received a definitive “no”,…
Last Stop on Lake Malawi- Nkhata Bay
After recovering from the crazy journey from Mulanje to Likoma Island, I was rested up and ready to tackle the ferry from Likoma to Nkhata Bay. There were 7 of us leaving the island that day for the journey, so…