How I Travelled around New Zealand with No Car

It sounds impossible, doesn’t it? Travelling around New Zealand without a car was one of my worries when I was preparing for my travel to New Zealand. For someone who was used to a small country, getting used to New Zealand’s vast landscape took some time. Travel between cities could take a few hours by…

alone by the beach

One of My Worst Travel Experience with Bugs

Have you ever wondered? Behind all those picture perfect, awesome holiday, it takes just one thing to trip it up. It could have been getting lost, missing flight connections, falling sick but the one thing that I have yet to personally encounter when I travel is actually driving me crazy now even though I have…

3 Simple Tips to Survive Solo Travel

I was going to write a whole long post on tips for solo travel. My sister is travelling alone for the first time and I wanted to give her some motivation. As I was writing out my list, it kept getting longer and longer. I thought – Why complicate matters? Will she even remember all…

Near Death Experience in Bali

Often, people travel for pleasure, for a sense of adventure and discovery. In the midst of excitement and anticipation of these travels, the risks on holiday are usually given little thought. I too was that way until the day I almost drowned while river rafting in Bali. The river that we have selected did not…

Be Impulsive – Whenever, Wherever

So yesterday I let my impulse get the better of me. I managed to ride my way over the waters in a swaying cable car, squished sand between my feet, listened to the waves crashing on the beach and survived a hair-raising lift among the treetops on my return back to civilization, all within 3…