Nepal. The road trip.

After 3 nights in Kathmandu, we set off early for our next destination.  The fantastic company we travelled with (https://himalayanadventuretreks.com/) had allocated us a lovely driver for the whole trip. He spoke some English and always was prompt, courteous, helpful and smiley 🙂  We were to drive 165 km  / 102 miles to Chitwan which doesn’t sound far.  However the […]

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Nepal. Kathmandu.

Nepal is a country that has interested me for many years and last month I spent a couple of weeks exploring just a small part of it. We travelled with a small company called https://himalayanadventuretreks.com/ and can thoroughly recommend them. Here are some of my photos from its capital, Kathmandu. Our first excursion was to Swayambunath, AKA Monkey Temple which […]

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I visited another of America’s National Parks after Yellowstone – The Grand Teton National Park. Both are in Wyoming, and the G.T park is directly below Yellowstone, so it was pretty much a case of exiting one park and entering another.   Once again, the scenery there is stunning, and the perfect time of year to visit as all the Aspen […]

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Yellowstone National Park.

October is a great time of year to visit Yellowstone.  No queuing to get in the park, only a couple of places packed with tourists, and beautiful autumn colours. What surprised me the most though was the amount of geothermal activity there.  I’d heard of the huge ‘Old Faithful’ geyser but didn’t anticipate seeing steam coming out of the ground […]

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Brazil. The Pantanal part 1.

The Pantanal in Brazil is the largest tropical wetlands in the world. Located in the heart of South America it is home to an amazing variety of wildlife, including many jaguars, giant river otters and other animals that I had only briefly seen before in Costa Rica. It was a long journey to get there involving a coach to London […]

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For our second gorilla trek we left our accommodation early in the morning and we had an amazing view of the mist in the valley as we climbed the mountain towards Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. There’s a reason Bwindi Impenetrable Forest has its name and trekking there was extremely physically hard. The terrain meant that we were following in single file […]

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Uganda. A day out.

Time off from volunteering saw us going to another National Park, but this time with a variety of animals and no gorillas. On the drive there we stopped by the roadside to photograph Uganda’s national bird – the grey crowned crane. Whilst waiting to get into the park, ‘security’ was keeping a keen eye on everyone. We entered the park […]

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Whilst volunteering in Uganda we visited a pygmy tribe to learn about their history and way of life.  I initially wondered how they felt about privileged white people descending on them, but the volunteer organisation makes a much needed monetary donation to them which they spend on things such as food, building materials, teachers salaries etc. I would have felt […]

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