After exploring Lisbon, we set off to see other parts of Portugal, and here are some of my images from ancient towns. First of all was a day trip from Lisbon to Sintra to visit the park & national palace of Pena. Winding roads take you a long way up a hill and perched at the top is the colourful […]
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An easy and short flight from Bristol to Lisbon meant that I visited another country that was new to me, despite it being relatively close. I’d anticipated a couple of weeks of sunshine and warmth as the UK has had a pretty horrible couple of months weather wise which is typical for January and February. The day I left the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world with 1860 confirmed species. During my time there I saw a few of them, and this post mostly consists of photos of the ones I was able to capture. A few sunsets and scenes are thrown in for good measure 🙂 My first sighting of the birds below was […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of our activities was to be a trek to observe chimpanzees in the wild. They apparently travel far and fast but we were promised a 99% chance of seeing them. Needless to say, on our 2 hour walk we didn’t 🙁 I recorded our walk and was amused to see that we’d walked a 5k route that looked a […]
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