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Pinnacles Desert, Lancelin
Lancelin is around an hour and a halfs drive north of Perth, Western Australia and is home to the Nambung National Park, Pinnacles Desert and Cervantes beach. Cervantes beach is famous for its world class windsurfing. (Noted on the International Windsurfing Circuit.) If you don’t like the water you can always go sand boarding on […]
20Jul2007 | Alex | 35 comments | Continued
Mount Kilimanjaro, Moshi, Tanzania
Well it certainly is a first that I am writing about a place I am travelling to, as opposed to where I have been. On the 1st of September I will be making my first ever visit to Africa! Quite worrying after just seeing Blood Diamond, and what an excellent film. I am off with […]
7Jul2007 | Alex | 10 comments | Continued
Koh Phi Phi, Thailand
Koh Phi Phi is one of the nicest places I came across traveling, I arrived a few weeks after the tsunami and to be honest the people of Koh Phi Phi had done a fantastic job of clearing up the debris. It was quite heart breaking as people were still diving around the shores looking […]
29Apr2007 | Alex | 29 comments | Continued
Pulau Langkawi, Sky Bridge
Langkawi is actually an archipelago, it consists of 99 islands and is just under 20 miles off the coast of Malayisa. The islands are part of Malayaisa not as part of Thailand which people tend to think. The main island or should I say biggest is Palau Langkawi which has about 45,000 people living on […]
22Feb2007 | Alex | 12 comments | Continued
Snake Temple, Penang
Well this had to be certainly the most interesting temple I visited in Malaysia. The Snake Temple in Bayan Lepas is a temple full of Crotalinae snakes aka Pit Vipers. These snakes have long hollow fangs which will inject you with a proteotoxic venom, this type of venom wont paralyse you but will eat away […]
17Feb2007 | Alex | 10 comments | Continued
The Batu Caves, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur
The Batu Caves in Malaysia were discovered in 1892 and are about 7 miles north of Kuala Lumpur and turned out to be about an hours trek on a local non air conditioned bus! The limestone caves are sacred for the Malaysian Hindus and consist of three main caves 400m long and up to 100 […]
22Jan2007 | Alex | 6 comments | Continued
The Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur
The Petronas Twin Towers here in Kuala Lumpur were once the world’s tallest buildings. From 1998 to 2004 they remained as this, however in 2004 Taipei 101 in Taiwan took the title which stands nearly 200 foot taller! However they still stand today as the world’s tallest twin towers. The Petronas Twin Towers were designed […]
28Dec2006 | Alex | 28 comments | Continued
Sirocco Roof Bar Restaurant, The Dome State Tower, Bangkok
I have no idea how the hell I missed this place! I think I’m going to have to go back to Sirocco just to dine alfresco on the sixty-third floor of Bangkok’s second tallest building! The venue wasn’t meant to be just another roof bar or restaurant but a venue for elegant atmosphere or something […]
28Nov2006 | Alex | 31 comments | Continued
Cape Leeuwin
Cape Leeuwin was only a short drive from Margaret River and thought it would be interesting to see. Cape Leeuwin sits on the very most South Western mainland point of Australia. It is here at Cape Leeuwin that the Indian and Southern Oceans meet, I had previously imagined seeing some sort of tidal line 😉 […]
27Nov2006 | Alex | 2 comments | Continued
Fremantle Prison, Perth, Australia
Fremantle is possibly the nicest city on the west coast of Australia. It’s at the mouth of the Swan River, which is about 10 miles southwest from Perth. Established as part of the Swan River Colony in 1829 by British settlers and named after Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle. Captain of the Royal Navy ship […]
19Nov2006 | Alex | 35 comments | Continued
