By Niki Davies, Travel Consultant “China is a vast country so where should I go?” This is a common question so on a recent trip I tried to answer this question by sampling the best of Beijing and Shanghai. These two cities are very much in contrast from each other. Beijing to the north is a historic, green city of parks and monuments which make … Continue reading A Taste of China
By Tori Keating 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 travellers with whom you are sharing the experience, but really it’s because you are standing at the justifiable … Continue reading Ticking off South America’s Big Five
By Tori Keating, Travel Consultant 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 clear and at other times silver with the shimmering scales of Pacific salmon. Alaska, so remote and isolated, is sometimes known … Continue reading Dreaming of Alaska
By Tori Keating 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 its oversized folds. I’m not cold, or at least I’m laughing too hard … Continue reading Mashpi Lodge
