‘Our Tribe Travels’ Top 5 Beaches
In addition to our European travel and longer term backpacking adventures we were fortunate to...
Read MoreOn August 11th 2011 we left the fresh air and beautiful countryside of Wales to set off on an adventure in SE Asia. Our belongings, all packed carefully into a storage container and labelled either ‘shipping’ or ‘storage’, await...
Read MoreWe’d heard mixed reviews about Langkawi and were unsure whether to make the trip there, but on researching travel options into Thailand we decided that it would be a natural break in the journey and would a sensible stop on our...
Read MoreOn first glance Georgetown doesn’t look that special, another Chinese influenced town with lots of local roadside cafes, busy streets and little bit rough around the edges. However, after a few days we really warmed to it. It’s...
Read MoreHaving visited KL back in 2009 when we were living in Mumbai, we were intrigued to see if our initial love of the place had changed. It hadn’t. KL has the best of East meets West. Modern shopping malls with a good choice of...
Read MoreIf Bandung is known as the Paris of Asia (for reference, it was nothing like it!), then I’m going to award Melaka with the title of ‘the Amsterdam of Asia’, but in this case there are some similarities. Melaka was where colonial...
Read MoreI’m going to keep this entry short and let the picture tell the story. After bumping into the same group of three English girls who were following a similar route to us and hearing about their 2 night stay at a secluded beach...
Read MoreToday was a play day with nothing planned. My other half, wanting to have a break from ‘the boy’ decided to take a visit to the memorial site just outside Sandakan. It was on his return that he spotted something very unusual....
Read MoreMy other half has competition because today is the day when I get close up and personal with the big hairy beasts of Borneo – the Orang-utans. In Malay orang means “person” and utan is derived from hutan, which means “forest.”...
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