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Family Trekking in Nepal
Steve and I had been dying to visit Nepal for years, but were initially hesitant to put it on the itinerary for our family sabbatical because our main interest was trekking in the Himalayas and we were worried our 7-year old wouldn’t be able to handle it. We however were convinced by multiple friends who…
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Seeing the sights of Battambang and Siem Reap Cambodia
Hopefully you’ve read my other post on our volunteering in Battambang. This post I’m going to chat about the time we spent in Cambodia when we weren’t volunteering. We did have a couple of days off in Battambang to see the sights of the area, and we are now just wrapping up a week of…
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Volunteer English Teaching in Battambang Cambodia
We just finished two weeks of volunteering in Cambodia and I think it will be one of the most memorable parts of the whole trip. It was such an educational experience for us all and also such a privilege to be welcomed into a local Cambodian school community so warmly. The volunteering idea started as…
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Exploring Mekong Delta in Vietnam and our arrival in Cambodia
A shorter post this time to describe our last few days in Vietnam and our travel to Cambodia as we are heading to our volunteering project in Battambang Cambodia. Last night in Ho Chi Minh City We had an excellent last evening in HCMC on the Reunification holiday. We finally found the hub of kite…
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and surroundings with the family in Vietnam
I have so much to say about Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) that I’m having trouble boiling it all down for this blog post, so we’ll see how this goes. I was really keen to have Vietnam on our itinerary because I have such warm memories of visiting here as a solo backpacker in 1998.…
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A week in Ubud Indonesia
We have just ended our week in Ubud, a town in the uplands of Bali, located in the midst of rice paddies and deep ravines. It’s known for being an art and culture centre and I believe was originally a quiet and laid back place to visit, but now is quite a busy tourist mecca.…
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Beauty on the north-west of Bali Indonesia
This week of our trip is I think our biggest splurge on accommodation and food. Relative to an equivalent hotel in North America / Europe it’s still fairly inexpensive, but we chose this week to treat ourselves to a bit of luxury, more than we would usually spend, and it’s been so much fun. It…
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Australia – Queensland fun
The last blog post finished with us in Bellingen, midway on our drive up to Brisbane in Queensland. We had a nice short stay in Bellingen, but were excited to get on the road early the next morning to get to Queensland, only stopping once for frozen chocolate covered bananas at the Big Banana. Our…
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Australia road trip
We arrived in Australia for the easy part of our trip last Sunday. The familiarity of the country came back so quickly and it feels quite like home for me (for those of you who don’t know, I am three-quarters Australian and have spent a lot of time here in the past). We have all…
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Japan – last few days in Kyoto/Osaka
This will be a shorter post as we only had a few days in Japan after my last post, but I didn’t want to miss writing about our last few days. Our pace of visiting tourist sites, definitely slowed down but we had a few iconic experiences that I must describe. One was watching a…
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