The day had barely begun; we were noisily slicing through the long green canal on a long wooden, motorized canoe from Nyaungshwe on an Inle Lake boat trip . The canal, a wide gap cut through the reedy marshes, was busy at this early hour with...
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...
Yangon, Myanmar. Travel plans often change, it’s the natural evolution of a long trip. You set out with a loose itinerary that unravels the further along you get. Other travellers rave about a destination, you spot something in a guidebook you thought you knew inside...
The Great Wall snakes over the mountain ridges of northern China like the backbone of a mighty dragon. A crumbling monument of stone from the distant past that enthrall visitors today yet was built to keep out marauding invaders from the west. The only marauding...
We arrived into Moscow on the 003 overnight train from St Petersburg. Walking into Red Square on a cold October morning has to be one of the most thrilling, iconic things I’ve done, I had to pinch myself to believe I was actually here! We...
