From the moment we drove into the City of Los Angeles, we were on the lookout for a potential sighting of a big time Hollywood Celebrity. We strolled peacefully up the Hollywood Walk of Fame, casually taking photos next to the names of our favorite stars.
After passing names like Johnny cash, Elvis Presley and a [...]
TREK DETAILS – PLATEAU POINT, SOUTH RIM
Distance to destination – 6.1 miles
Overall distance – 12.2 miles
Elevation – 3770 feet
OUR EXPERIENCE
We spent the night before our trek outside of the national park and made our way into the Grand Canyon shortly after sunrise. We paid our park entrance fee, that was surprisingly cheap, and drove up [...]
Two friends and I travelled the East Coat of Australia for one month, armed with just our Spaceship, Roxy, who came complete with her own DVD player, and gas stove. We began our epic trip in Melbourne, where we toured the famous Ramsey street and visited the Melbourne Cricket Ground. We then drove the Great [...]
The Whitsunday and Fraser Islands tours to complete our Spaceship Adventure!!
We had a great night at the Magnums Backpackers in Airlie Beach and with much excitement boarded the Habibi boat for our tour of The Whitsunday Islands. The tour was fantastic fun, playing beach cricket on a beach rated as one of the most beautiful [...]
During our stay in Sydney we booked to go to two of the premier attractions on Australia’s well travelled East Coast, The Whitsunday Islands and Fraser Island. We booked a combined package with Tribal Travel for a very reasonable price and drove our rented spaceship from there all the way up to Airlie Beach, [...]
Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the World and it is one of the most popular tourist attractions on the East Coast of Australia. During our stay in Sydney we popped into the Tribal Travel shop and booked a combined package to partake in tours of the Whitsunday Islands and Fraser Island that [...]
On our final days in Australia, counting down the days until we flew out of Brisbane, we decided to get up and do something. We stumbled upon a leaflet in our hostel saying: “Zorb Gold Coast“. The pictures on the leaflet looked like a lot of fun and the site was within driving distance of [...]
Walking the streets of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, one can expect to be hassled and offered all manner of things. ”You want tuk-tuk? motorbike? drugs? ladies?”. All of which, hardened by already having spent two months in Southeast Asia, I brushed off with relative ease. Then I was completely taken back by the [...]
If you travel 160 kilometres south of Cape Town in South Africa, you will find Kleinbaai Harbour, home to Great White Shark tours in South Africa. Shark diving is a life changing experience and so we were adamant on giving it a go during our tour of South Africa. We booked our tour with the [...]
Byron Bay, Surfer’s Paradise and driving through a Hurricane!
After some great fun in Sydney, we carried on up the East Coast with the aim of making it to Byron Bay before nightfall. The drive was brilliant fun and with continuos rotations on driving, it wasn’t too tiring tackling the 430 or so miles.
We arrived [...]
