Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains are a mountain range in New South Wales, located about an hour inland from Sydney. Known by travellers country wide due to its beautiful and dramatic scenery it places high on the to do list of many if not all. The Blue Mountains national park is dotted with small towns, guesthouses and…

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Canberra is Australia’s not so well known capital city. Rumour has it, we’re still not sure if this is 100% true, that when deciding upon said capital city the Australians couldn’t make a decision between the two obvious contenders of Melbourne and Sydney (in our opinion, the obvious choice is Melbs although we may be…

Victoria to New South Wales Pit Stops

After two brilliant days in Wilsons Promontory the time had come to start our slow ascent up the east coast of Australia, firstly crawling along the coastline of Victoria (our home state for the past 6 months) and eventually making our way into New South Wales. As most travellers or visitors to this huge country…

Exploring Rio’s Favelas

Rio de Janeiro is a fantastic city with much to boast about, the famous Copacabana beach, the largest carnival in the world, Christ the Redeemer a new wonder of the world, just to name a few that generically spring to mind. Ranted and raved about by tourists, adored by locals and lets not forget the…

Christ the Redeemer

Rio de Janeiro is famous worldwide and it is also where we decided to dedicate the majority of our time here in Brazil, specifically we made a massive detour within our travel route so we could tick ‘Rio carnival’ off the bucket list. After 7 nights in one location it begins to feel normal and…

Valparisio; graffiti, steps & funiculars

A relatively small port city located two hours west of Santiago, Valparaiso is steeped in history and in geography. Rising up from the ocean side are numerous hills that make up this once famous and extremely important South American port which has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 2003. It’s these hills where most travellers…