Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, So the lure of Borobudur was too much, Java had been on my must-go list for a while, this huge temple just had to be seen with my own eyes. Yet Borobudur would have to wait, I would build up to it...
The alarm went off at 5am. It was one of those see-the-sunrise-at-(insert icon here) days. An early wake up call to see dawn over a travel icon: today we would greet the new day overlooking the many temples of Bagan. The famous Bagan Sunrise. We’d...
The plains of Bagan are arguably Burma’s most iconic view, a vista of thousands of Buddhist temples peppered across the landscape. Over three thousand brick stupas pierce the sky, constructed between the 11th and 13th centuries, once part of a great city that was at...
How to do the Temples of Angkor Arriving as an independent traveller into Siem Reap can be a little overwhelming when it comes to visiting all the temples of Angkor. I mean, well, there’s so many off them, where do you start? A little pre-planning...
Our favourite site in Beijing was definitely the Summer Palace, we spent a sunny day exploring this fabulous royal park and found it far more absorbing than the Forbidden City. Maybe it was the glittering lake or the leafy parkland, whatever it was we thoroughly...
Later that evening we left Cairo, to return in a few days, and took the night train to Aswan…. We arrived in Aswan and had booked into our hotel by midday. From our side balcony we could see the Nile and the felucca touts bothering...
