24 Mar 2014 1 Comment
in Family Gap Year, Top Experiences, Videos Tags: Maafushi, Maldives, Male, Vilimale, Villingili
February 2014. We arrive in the Maldives, our 22nd country, from Sri Lanka on our 45th flight, and celebrate our 18 month travelling milestone.
Maafushi, Maldives.
So we’re not going to be able to brag about our light carbon footprint – it’s a long old way around this globe and with low cost airlines luring us to take more trips to explore more new places never on our original itinerary, More
23 Mar 2014 4 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Top Experiences, Videos Tags: Borneo, Borneo Sun Bear Conservation Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mari Mari Cultural Village, Nak Hotel, Orang-utan, Orangutan, Petronas Towers, Rasa Ria Orangutan Sanctuary, Sabah, Sandakan, Sepilok
After a second month-long stay in Bali we are all too soon saying goodbye to friends again, and flying off, this time, to Sabah, the more easterly state of Malaysian Borneo for 6 days. This was a fairly last minute plan, partly because the flights were ridiculously cheap and partly to see if Borneo lives up to the exotic jungle destination it’s cracked up to be!
Adventures on the Kinabantangan river, Sabah
numbers. Thankfully recent research shows that number were not quite so low as estimated at that time but nonetheless, they remain critically endangered and their numbers continue to be reduced.
27 Jun 2013 4 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Videos Tags: Argentina, Selknam people, The end of the world, Tierra del Fuego, Tierra del Fuego National Park, Yamana people
In Ushauia – we found out all about the Yamana people and the Selknam people. They lived at the bottom of the world in Tierra del Fuego in South America. The Selknam lived inland and hunted guanaco. The Yamana lived along the coast.
The Yamana with their canoe – where they kept a fire burning all the time and didn’t wear clothes! At the Maritime Museum, Ushuaia. This canoe was made trying to copy the traditional methods before they are forgotten and lost!
The Yamana lived further south than any other people in the world and although it was cold they didn’t wear clothes but always had a fire burning even in their canoes and put animal grease on their skin to help stay warm. More
19 Jun 2013 3 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Top Experiences, Videos Tags: Argentina, El Calafate, Patagonia, Perito Moreno Glacier
Nature served up another remarkable highlight in South America when she created the Perito Moreno Glacier in the south of Argentina, up there with Iguazu Falls and the Bolivian Salt Flats as one of the most spectacular places and is a must visit, worth every hour of the long journey to get there!
Colours and Patterns of Perito Moreno Glacier Patagonia, Argentina
07 Aug 2012 5 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Health & Fitness, Kids Stuff, Photos, Videos Tags: Ben, Bunk bed, Gap year, Lara, Zoe
And the winner is…
A few weeks into our family gap year she has managed to break:
Dad managed to fix everything apart from the iPad with a spoon and swiss army knife.
Metal Tree Climbing
She has also had a few scrapes: More
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