Kuang Si Waterfall. One of the most beautiful places I’ve visited in Asia. It’s about 25 km outside Luang Prabang, Laos. The water is cool and clear. It’s refreshing and the lush forest surroundings make the place feel magical. It’s the low season for tourism, so most of the people at the falls are…
…I climb up and sit on the throne. Looking down on the cave floor below, I can imagine the people who lived here a hundred thousand years ago. Jessy clambers up and sits beside me. ‘Your highness’ she greets me, with a sardonic smile. ‘Doctor.’ We kiss on the throne. It is intensely erotic… I…
…We read on the interweb that the generals have officially admitted that what is going on is a coup d’etat. A 10 PM curfew is in effect, apparently, and Thailand’s elected leaders have been cordially invited, by the generals, to report to an army barracks at their convenience. All over Thailand tourists are freaking out:…
I hear something move a few metres away. A crackle of shifting twigs. It’s closer now, just on the other side of the tree. I whirl around the trunk, spear ready…
…Several films have been shot in Tamnougalt, Alami tells us, including “Babel”. “I loved that film”, I say. “Cate Blanchett is Australian, you know? I met her at a barbeque once.” “It is a quite small world”, Alami says, “my cousin was an actor in that “Babel”… As we bump down the rocky track…
…the town has become a bit of a pilgrimage for pot heads in the last ten years, because the hill country is full of huge marijuana crops… I ride into Chefchaouen with a sporty gent in his elegant ’70s Merc’ coupe. The steady climb up the mountain roads makes me alternately sleepy and dizzy, but…
…We settle down on the riverbank in the shade, to eat, and are mobbed by a herd of goats… Juan, a Spanish travelling salesman, picks us up from a servo in France, just north of the border. He is shy at first, but after chatting for a while, we win him over. When he…
Thanks to Pierre’s massive generosity, we are spending 3 amazing days in his beautiful house on the river at Saint-Antoine. Pierre is a sailor, hitchhiker and vagabond himself, and fortunately a very good English speaker, so we have some great chats! (Top: the view from the front yard of Pierre’s house) Saint-Antoine is the…
Nelson, Australia. A beautiful bay on the mouth of the Glenelg River. In the week since we were last on the southern coast, the weather turned really cold and wet, so after a night sleeping in all our clothes in a gazebo on the river front, we headed north again to chase the warm!…
Heres the view from our camp at Lakes Entrance a couple of weeks ago. I love Lakes Entrance. Below is the view from the hillside above the bay…
Hitching in Malaysia is awesome. I landed in KL and hitched north to Thailand. My average wait time was about 1 minute. Cultural curiosity was probably part of it, but also, being a culturally Moslem country theres a common creed of helping out travellers. One lady stopped in a bright pink 70’s datsun, covered…