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Not Climbing Kilimanjaro Day 0
Wow. I don’t even know where to start. I’ve only just managed to get my day bag back this evening, after stupidly and hilariously leaving it on the runway next to our little twin prop plane in Nairobi, a few days ago. I’ve now made two trips back to Moshi airport, after being told my […]
30Mar2008 | Alex | 0 comments | Continued
California Travel Photos
This is possibly going to be my shortest post ever, but I need some sleep after all this hectic travelling. My recent photos of San Jose, San Francisco, California have at last been added. I have other destinations to add and should get them up here soon. Enjoy.
8Oct2007 | Alex | 24 comments | Continued
Back from Africa
Well this is going to be a short post to quickly say thank you to everyone who has sponsored us to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for the Amani Children’s Home family reunification programme and playground. I have uploaded photos to my travel gallery of our trip, including some which should probably be censored…
24Sep2007 | Alex | 10 comments | Continued
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
