Lake Waikaremoana

New Zealand Great Walks I’ve walked it, I’ve run it and I’ve paddled it. Lake Waikaremoana (From the Maori Waikaremoana translates as ‘sea of rippling waters’). Lake Waikaremoana is located in Te Urewera in the North Island of New Zealand, 60 kilometres northwest of Wairoa and 80 kilometres west-southwest of Gisborne. It covers an area […]

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Hong Kong

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 that have taken us into […]

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USA – Alaska

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 on the size and shape […]

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Egypt

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 “Cairo Traffic” really meant – […]

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Mongolia

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 is stopped, doors locked, worse […]

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Mt Kilimanjaro

Day 1: 8th Feb 2008, Machame Gate – Machame Hut, 1800m – 3000m, 10.5km We were picked up from New Castle Hotel at 8.30am and taken back to Ahsante`s office. We felt really confident  with our gear – particularly as it had all been checked the day before by our guide Mosses. We met the other […]

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