10 Jan, 2018 | Canada, North America
There’s an amazing tourist attraction in Canada Place Vancouver called the `Fly Over Canada’. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever done as a traveller and one I would happily do again. It’s a simulation ride which flies you- as if you were in a helicopter- over the...
16 Jan, 2017 | amazon, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, South America
There’s something wonderfully breathtaking about standing atop Machu Picchu looking over the ancient ruins of the `Lost city of the Incas’. Standing at 2,430 meters above sea level it may well be the altitude that takes your breath away, or the few thousand other...
16 Jan, 2017 | Alaska, North America
Silence, they say, is golden. But in Alaska’s iconic Inside Passage silence is giant white glaciers and floating icebergs, piercing blue skies, everlasting sunsets of pinks and purples, green forests hugging the coastline and rippling water, sometimes blue, sometimes...
16 Jan, 2017 | Accommodation, Ecuador, South America
This is rain like I have never before seen in my life- torrential rain like the very definition of cats and dogs. And I am so drenched through that there seems little point to the poncho I have been given which now has tributaries instead of rivulets cascading through...