I had wanted to go swimming with whales for a while, ever since I picked up freediving. I gave up freediving, but that’s another story. Having gone scuba diving with sharks and other big creatures, swimming with whales was an obvious next step. Sri Lanka was a good candidate location. I could potentially visit Sri […]
This trip was into Guilin and Yangshuo in China, places known for their limestone cliff (karst) scenery. Online and in-person reviews gave starkly different opinions between Chinese and foreign visitors. The Chinese maintained that Guilin was the better spot to visit and worth more time. The foreigners all said to use Guilin as the entry […]
Diving The Great Barrier Reef is one of the ‘bucket list’ items for adventure-seekers everywhere. It is possible to dive from Cairns or Townsville on Australia’s eastern coast, but the GBR stretches 2300 Km along that coast. The best way to experience a variety of dive sites along the reef is to do it by […]
Luang Prabang is a very nice city in Laos. One of the quintessential experiences of travel in Laos is to take a boat along the Mekong river between the border town of Huay Xai and Luang Prabang. It is pretty standard. Hundreds of tourists (and a number of locals) do the route daily. The slow […]