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Date: 3rd August 2011
I hear you about the snakes
Sounds like quiet the area for some rest and relaxation. I feel for you with the snake issue. I live in the American West where there are rattlesnakes and I wear snake gaiters anytime I am outside. I have done this after nearly being bit a few times, one in particular where a snake bit my boot in mid-stride and not the leg that was placed right beside it. Anyway, you might want to look into snake gaiters or some other snake proof gear. That looks like an enchanting area you guys have. I would love to visit. Love the water and mountains. Great pictures.
From Blog: Time for a holiday. Chilling at the lakes
I hear you about the snakes
Sounds like quiet the area for some rest and relaxation. I feel for you with the snake issue. I live in the American West where there are rattlesnakes and I wear snake gaiters anytime I am outside. I have done this after nearly being bit a few times, one in particular where a snake bit my boot in mid-stride and not the leg that was placed right beside it. Anyway, you might want to look into snake gaiters or some other snake proof gear. That looks like an enchanting area you guys have. I would love to visit. Love the water and mountains. Great pictures.
From Blog: Time for a holiday. Chilling at the lakes
Date: 14th June 2011
Palawan Tips
Hey, my wife and I are off to Palawan next week and would appreciate some tips on accommodation and things to do. Any pointers would be unreal!!!! Thanks!
From Blog: A tiny taste of Coron
Palawan Tips
Hey, my wife and I are off to Palawan next week and would appreciate some tips on accommodation and things to do. Any pointers would be unreal!!!! Thanks!
From Blog: A tiny taste of Coron
Date: 6th June 2011
loved your adventures!!!
We did our big trip 17yrs ago now and reading your blog bought back lots of happy memmories.we now live in Perth and just happened to be on that red eye flight on boxing day to Brisbane that ended up in Sydney !!................ It's a small world??? Have fun on your next adventure wherever it may be x
From Blog: Life's a beach... until the rains came down and the floods came up
loved your adventures!!!
We did our big trip 17yrs ago now and reading your blog bought back lots of happy memmories.we now live in Perth and just happened to be on that red eye flight on boxing day to Brisbane that ended up in Sydney !!................ It's a small world??? Have fun on your next adventure wherever it may be x
From Blog: Life's a beach... until the rains came down and the floods came up
Date: 5th May 2011
super!!
What a great blog and amazing adventure! I've been in Tibet 3 times and luckily never got sick like you. Glad you described the situation there: police everywhere, like if a war is going on. I visited before 2008 and it was different. What a shame! Thanks for the super entry.
From Blog: Seven days in Tibet (and one night in Tingri hospital)
super!!
What a great blog and amazing adventure! I've been in Tibet 3 times and luckily never got sick like you. Glad you described the situation there: police everywhere, like if a war is going on. I visited before 2008 and it was different. What a shame! Thanks for the super entry.
From Blog: Seven days in Tibet (and one night in Tingri hospital)
Date: 15th February 2011
Blog of the year, 2010
Congratulations! :) This blog was nominated one of the best of 2010, in the Asia/photography category. http://www.travelblog.org/Topics/27154-1.html
From Blog: Heaven. Hell. Pandas.
Blog of the year, 2010
Congratulations! :) This blog was nominated one of the best of 2010, in the Asia/photography category. http://www.travelblog.org/Topics/27154-1.html
From Blog: Heaven. Hell. Pandas.
Date: 27th January 2011
Home Sweet Home
Blimey...just when we thought your adventures couldn't get any more...well, adventurous! We are so plased to hear that you are back safely. Hopefully see you very soon in the S.H! xxx
From Blog: Life's a beach... until the rains came down and the floods came up
Home Sweet Home
Blimey...just when we thought your adventures couldn't get any more...well, adventurous! We are so plased to hear that you are back safely. Hopefully see you very soon in the S.H! xxx
From Blog: Life's a beach... until the rains came down and the floods came up
Date: 19th January 2011
LOL love your blog - lots of memories of THAT stupidly long boring road and wonderful Ningaloo...and flooded out roads :) I personally think roos are suicidal too...why wait 4 hours for a car to come along in the middle of nowhere and jump out infront of it to certain death? stupid marsupials! Glad you enjoyed your trip.
From Blog: Life's a beach... until the rains came down and the floods came up
LOL love your blog - lots of memories of THAT stupidly long boring road and wonderful Ningaloo...and flooded out roads :) I personally think roos are suicidal too...why wait 4 hours for a car to come along in the middle of nowhere and jump out infront of it to certain death? stupid marsupials! Glad you enjoyed your trip.
From Blog: Life's a beach... until the rains came down and the floods came up
Date: 19th January 2011
Home sweet home!
Thank you for taking us along on your travels! Great blogs and wonderful photos!
From Blog: Life's a beach... until the rains came down and the floods came up
Home sweet home!
Thank you for taking us along on your travels! Great blogs and wonderful photos!
From Blog: Life's a beach... until the rains came down and the floods came up
Date: 6th January 2011
Looks so amazing, I want to go there! And kind of reminds me of Thailand :) Looking foward to catching up with you guys when you get back to NZ...we are in Auckers now so let us know when you are back!!
From Blog: A tiny taste of Coron
Looks so amazing, I want to go there! And kind of reminds me of Thailand :) Looking foward to catching up with you guys when you get back to NZ...we are in Auckers now so let us know when you are back!!
From Blog: A tiny taste of Coron
Date: 3rd January 2011
Great blogs!
We love following your travels, Thanks for sharing.
From Blog: A tiny taste of Coron
Great blogs!
We love following your travels, Thanks for sharing.
From Blog: A tiny taste of Coron
Date: 3rd January 2011
Wow wow wow :) So many nice sights! Glad to see you enjoy it after all the hardships on the mainland. By the time you read this you must be back to the Kiwi brothers and sisters. Hope you had a safe last flight, and, good luck on your life, part 2 :D Oh and of course I am glad I will see many of the nice places you visited on the Phillipines :D (A pet snake? And I thought my little lizard companion in Okinawa was already spooky enough :)) Cheerio!!!
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Wow wow wow :) So many nice sights! Glad to see you enjoy it after all the hardships on the mainland. By the time you read this you must be back to the Kiwi brothers and sisters. Hope you had a safe last flight, and, good luck on your life, part 2 :D Oh and of course I am glad I will see many of the nice places you visited on the Phillipines :D (A pet snake? And I thought my little lizard companion in Okinawa was already spooky enough :)) Cheerio!!!
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Date: 26th December 2010
Beautiful Pictures
Wow I am so going there next year! Thanks for the great pictures sounds like a lot of fun.
From Blog: A tiny taste of Coron
Beautiful Pictures
Wow I am so going there next year! Thanks for the great pictures sounds like a lot of fun.
From Blog: A tiny taste of Coron
Date: 14th December 2010
Hey guys!! Sorry it's been a while....WOW you have been to some amazing places since we last checked in! Stunning...What an interesting (and entertaining!) read. So many adventures. I was on the edge of my seat reading all about your altitude sickness Anna, you poor thing! Good on you for sticking with it and staying there though, I bet you are so relieved you did. Nice to see you're back down at sea level and having a relaxing time now though :) (aside from the close encounter with the snake..eeek!) So you must be on your final leg through Australia now I guess? Looking forward to reading all about it. Our applications are all done and sent off now so we are waiting with fingers crossed for the job offers now. It would be nice to see some lovely photos of Oz to keep us inspired through early-morning phone interviews...so keep up the good work! Just incase you were missing the British weather, we have been under a blanket of snow for the last couple of weeks! Jealous? I thought so :) Other gossip from England...we got engaged! John proposed during a lovely weekend trip to York. We were a tad upstaged by Prince Will and Kate, who announced there engagement only a few days after ours (the cheek!), but it's all very exciting. Enjoy your last couple of weeks on the road! Take care xxx
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Hey guys!! Sorry it's been a while....WOW you have been to some amazing places since we last checked in! Stunning...What an interesting (and entertaining!) read. So many adventures. I was on the edge of my seat reading all about your altitude sickness Anna, you poor thing! Good on you for sticking with it and staying there though, I bet you are so relieved you did. Nice to see you're back down at sea level and having a relaxing time now though :) (aside from the close encounter with the snake..eeek!) So you must be on your final leg through Australia now I guess? Looking forward to reading all about it. Our applications are all done and sent off now so we are waiting with fingers crossed for the job offers now. It would be nice to see some lovely photos of Oz to keep us inspired through early-morning phone interviews...so keep up the good work! Just incase you were missing the British weather, we have been under a blanket of snow for the last couple of weeks! Jealous? I thought so :) Other gossip from England...we got engaged! John proposed during a lovely weekend trip to York. We were a tad upstaged by Prince Will and Kate, who announced there engagement only a few days after ours (the cheek!), but it's all very exciting. Enjoy your last couple of weeks on the road! Take care xxx
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Date: 5th December 2010
Thanks
Thanks for the comments Viv - always so encouraging. See you all soon. Not long now! Anna
From Blog: Don't. Turn. Around.
Thanks
Thanks for the comments Viv - always so encouraging. See you all soon. Not long now! Anna
From Blog: Don't. Turn. Around.
Date: 5th December 2010
More expensive
I think it may have been your blog that inspired us to visit! Thanks!
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
More expensive
I think it may have been your blog that inspired us to visit! Thanks!
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Date: 4th December 2010
Listening to the silence
What a wonderful trip. Thanks for sharing!
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Listening to the silence
What a wonderful trip. Thanks for sharing!
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Date: 4th December 2010
Wow, definitely more expensive!
We visited El Nido in August 2007 and were paying 500 pesos for a beach front fan room...seems like the prices have really rocketed there! We have heard that more and more people are visiting, so the sad fact is that prices will keep going up along with demand. A lot of the coral, as you say, has been destroyed mainly due to dynamite fishing in the past and it's never recovered which is such a shame. Fab photos and we don't blame you for running away from the snake...scary! Safe travels Donna and Neil
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Wow, definitely more expensive!
We visited El Nido in August 2007 and were paying 500 pesos for a beach front fan room...seems like the prices have really rocketed there! We have heard that more and more people are visiting, so the sad fact is that prices will keep going up along with demand. A lot of the coral, as you say, has been destroyed mainly due to dynamite fishing in the past and it's never recovered which is such a shame. Fab photos and we don't blame you for running away from the snake...scary! Safe travels Donna and Neil
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Date: 4th December 2010
Unspoilt Paradise
Truly stunningly beautiful ! Your photos look great ! I really do hope that it will remain unspoilt in many years to come. Perhaps the higher cost to travel there is a good thing to deter large number of tourists/travelers swarming in !
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Unspoilt Paradise
Truly stunningly beautiful ! Your photos look great ! I really do hope that it will remain unspoilt in many years to come. Perhaps the higher cost to travel there is a good thing to deter large number of tourists/travelers swarming in !
From Blog: All eyes on Palawan
Date: 30th November 2010
Hi guys, We've just read your latest blog and seen the fantastic photos. This must have been the most amazing experience and we can imagine how scary it must have been coming up close with the rhinos. You've really made it so real and you could have a career change by writing books. It's been amazing to read. Thanks and take care. Safe travels.
From Blog: Don't. Turn. Around.
Hi guys, We've just read your latest blog and seen the fantastic photos. This must have been the most amazing experience and we can imagine how scary it must have been coming up close with the rhinos. You've really made it so real and you could have a career change by writing books. It's been amazing to read. Thanks and take care. Safe travels.
From Blog: Don't. Turn. Around.
Date: 29th November 2010
a good heart-thumping in Chitwan
It was a good trip down memory lane reading this blog as back in '99 I did a similar trek through Chitwan's jungles with a guide armed with a stick, surrounded by things higher on the food chain than we were. We too, went through the 10' high elephant grass, already on edge after having to look for 'the next tree you plan to scale in the event you need to' for hours. Except when our guide stopped us dead in our tracks in the grass, we could hear something large coming through the grass and he turned around wild-eyed in panic and screamed RUN!!. You've never seen 5 tourists run so fast. After about a quarter mile we stopped to look for the guide who was nowhere to be found. We backtracked toward where we had run from and found him sitting on the ground, shaking and laughing. He wasn't putting us on, he was shaking from adrenaline like the rest of us. What he had thought were wild (angry) elelphants turned out to be a buddy of his taking his elephant through the park. We all had a good nervous laugh about it but boy, money can't buy the very real experience of running for your life! Thanks for the memory. :)
From Blog: Don't. Turn. Around.
a good heart-thumping in Chitwan
It was a good trip down memory lane reading this blog as back in '99 I did a similar trek through Chitwan's jungles with a guide armed with a stick, surrounded by things higher on the food chain than we were. We too, went through the 10' high elephant grass, already on edge after having to look for 'the next tree you plan to scale in the event you need to' for hours. Except when our guide stopped us dead in our tracks in the grass, we could hear something large coming through the grass and he turned around wild-eyed in panic and screamed RUN!!. You've never seen 5 tourists run so fast. After about a quarter mile we stopped to look for the guide who was nowhere to be found. We backtracked toward where we had run from and found him sitting on the ground, shaking and laughing. He wasn't putting us on, he was shaking from adrenaline like the rest of us. What he had thought were wild (angry) elelphants turned out to be a buddy of his taking his elephant through the park. We all had a good nervous laugh about it but boy, money can't buy the very real experience of running for your life! Thanks for the memory. :)
From Blog: Don't. Turn. Around.
Date: 28th November 2010
just in time......
been thinking of visiting Petra. Maybe next year. Your blog came in handy. Reading it in installments.....for better digestion ;-) been busy lately, so just read the first half. will resume sometime later. but hey, thanks for sharing this.
From Blog: Petra - beautiful one day ... pretty depressing the next
just in time......
been thinking of visiting Petra. Maybe next year. Your blog came in handy. Reading it in installments.....for better digestion ;-) been busy lately, so just read the first half. will resume sometime later. but hey, thanks for sharing this.
From Blog: Petra - beautiful one day ... pretty depressing the next
Date: 23rd November 2010
saved!
The bit about the dogs remind me of Anna's happy face everytime she saw a 'saved' animal in Mongola :) Such beautiful pictures! Here on the islands of Japan where I am right now things are nice but not very colourful or photogenic. But I'll be back with a vengeance on Taiwan ;)
From Blog: Happy Diwali from the City of Colour!
saved!
The bit about the dogs remind me of Anna's happy face everytime she saw a 'saved' animal in Mongola :) Such beautiful pictures! Here on the islands of Japan where I am right now things are nice but not very colourful or photogenic. But I'll be back with a vengeance on Taiwan ;)
From Blog: Happy Diwali from the City of Colour!
Date: 23rd November 2010
hurray for your guts!
Whoa, when I read the part about you guys fighting for your rights with that guide, I really admire your balls! I don't know if a) I would even notice being scammed b) having enough guts to do something about it. (that's why i never take guides anymore, but that also means missing out on some of the things you see. beautiful pictures, the mountain views are so wonderful... (never manage to get such shots with my cheap digicam hehe).
From Blog: These boots are made for walking...
hurray for your guts!
Whoa, when I read the part about you guys fighting for your rights with that guide, I really admire your balls! I don't know if a) I would even notice being scammed b) having enough guts to do something about it. (that's why i never take guides anymore, but that also means missing out on some of the things you see. beautiful pictures, the mountain views are so wonderful... (never manage to get such shots with my cheap digicam hehe).
From Blog: These boots are made for walking...
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You two inspired me!
I am going to use your trip as a guide to explore the world. Thank you so much for sharing!
From Blog: Life's a beach... until the rains came down and the floods came up