We have walked and walked and walked...and shopped and shopped and shopped! It has been a flying visit but we have had a lot of fun wandering the streets - filled with everything from antiques to the latest whiz bang inventions. We have followed a couple of different of walking tours...
We spent a few days in Denali National Park (home of North America’s tallest peak, Mt McKinley/Denali). The National Park has an interesting system for hiking. The park is divided into 43 units of land, each with a quota to determine how many people can tent each night dependant...
We arrived in Cairo at 4am and decided to drive our rental car straight to the pyramids and the sphinx so we could get out bearings and avoid the majority of the traffic. It wasnt until we drove through Cairo later in the day that we could fully comprehend what...
Border crossings are notorioiusly slow in this part of the world and ours was no different - the simple act of moving a train load of people from Russia to Mongolia (a process that occurs a couple of times each day) took the best part of 8 hours! The train...