Havana Highlights: Ten Awesome Experiences In Cuba’s Capital
Imagine walking down bustling city streets of Havana that are humming with life, past crumbling colonial buildings cast in bright shades of yellow, blue, pink and green, all high arched windows and narrow wrought iron balconies. Old Chevrolets and Fords ...
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Getting Outdoors In Cuba’s World Heritage Valle De Viñales
If Havana epitomises the vibrant, colourful, rumba-thumping, Caribbean heart of Cuba, then surely Viñales must be its earthy, laid back, rural soul. Set amidst the World Heritage-listed Valle de Viñales, the village feels a world away from its metropolitan cousin, ...
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Exploring A Glacier In Norway By Kayak And Crampon
It’s summer in Norway and the turquoise waters of Styggevatnet glacier lake seem tranquil and inviting. Then I dip my hand in and realise why our guide was so insistent that we paddle carefully to avoid tipping the kayak. As I pull ...
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The Path Of Yeast Resistance – A Belgian Beer Tour
Surely it’s every beer lover’s dream come true: a trip where drinking beer is the ‘must do’ of the itinerary. No cobbled streets, churches, museums, galleries, ancient history and all that exhausting walking. This trip would be all about the beer. Ok, ...
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Diving In Malta: The Underwater Wonders Of Gozo
We’ve often heard tell of the excellent diving in Malta and Gozo, an area awash with caves, wrecks and reefs. And while we’re a little uncertain about its vote as the second best diving destination on the planet – as judged by ...
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A Nice Chianti Classico – Road Tripping In Tuscany
If two wine apprecionados were ever going to officially start their latest grown-up long-haul adventure somewhere, what better place to ease into it than among the awesome architecture, heavenly frescoes, tasty fare and, of course, the divine vines of Italy’s romantic Tuscany? Having ...
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Dahab Diving: A Red Sea Escape
Sydney diving is great fun, but we’ve been aching for the warm, clear waters of the Red Sea, and the spectacular dive sites off the coast of Dahab. It’s a place we frequently talk about, especially with other divers, and ...
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Bali’s underwater wonderland: Photo Gallery
Superb shipwrecks, mantas, mola mola, fantastic coral, cute cuttlefish, morish muck diving, nifty night diving and fantastic tropical water with awesome visibility. Add easy, relatively short flights from Sydney, great cheap accommodation overlooking the ocean, and friendly, gentle people, and ...
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A birthday diving adventure in Bali
Hopping across to Bali from Sydney may not be your typical long weekend break, however for this birthday boy it seemed like a great antidote to the depths of a Sydney winter. Sunshine and diving anyone . . . . ...
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Sri Lanka: Circumnavigating the emerald teardrop
We arrive at Colombo International Airport at 5am, weary and a little tetchy after taking the red eye from Mumbai. After a long queue through immigration with a plane load of other grumpy travellers, we finally emerge into a breaking ...
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From the Red Sea to the Dead Sea
It was a journey of biblical proportions, starting with a mad dash across three countries in as many hours as we crossed borders from Egypt through Israel and finally into Jordan.
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Istanbul to Cappadocia and everything in between
Our tour guide looks and sounds frighteningly like Borat. He’s decked out in a safari vest, a neck scarf, and he’s sporting a moustache Merv Hughes would be proud of.
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