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Costa Rica

COSTA RICA | Wed, 11 Nov 2009 | By thefuegoproject | Views [128] | Comments [1]

La Cruz to Rio Sereno 12/10/09 to 3/11/09 - 952 km (total km’s 17700) Costa Rica, Pura Vida One of the joys of bike touring is not always so much about the riding, but it’s about getting to out of the way places and experiencing nature.... Read more >

Tags: costa rica, cycling, wildlife, cycling friends, beach, turtles

from one winter to another...

AUSTRALIA | Sun, 4 Oct 2009 | By leah | Views [49]

My time here is almost up, sadly, but Mother Nature, knowing I don't get a summer this year as I'm leaving Perth at the end of the winter and going back to the US during the fall, has blessed me with a few days of beautiful sunshine for my last weekend ... Read more >

Tags: perth, beach, cottesloe, swan river, western australia

Pre-trip Holiday to Turkey

UNITED KINGDOM | Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By gypsy_hannah | Views [44]

As last minute holidays go Turkey was fantastic!!! I wasn't supposed to be going anywhere before i move to Australia so booking a trip and going two weeks later was great!! The weather was fantastic, the beach gorgeous and i made loads of friends. ... Read more >

Tags: beach, safari, bath, scuba, karaoke

Dia 20-21: Illes paradisiaques, homenatge a Ko Samui... i arribada a Koh Tao!!

SPAIN | Thu, 13 Aug 2009 | By dayangchi | Views [71] | Comments [1]

De bon mati agafi els trastos i cap a l'aeroport.. Els temps comence a tindre'l just, aixi que no podia estar mes dies a Camboia. Quasi sense adonar-me'n estava un altra vegada a l'aeroport de Bangkok, del que no havia de eixir, lo mal era que eren les ... Read more >

Tags: dayangchi, koh tao, koh samui, thailand, tailandia, bangkok, amanecer, sunshine, beach

Fim de semana / Weekend

NEW ZEALAND | Sat, 8 Aug 2009 | By clfreitas | Views [68]

Hoje meus anfritoes se sentiram bem o bastante para voltar a rotina de andar, entao fomos tomar cafe na rua e depois fui apresentada ao Jardim Botanico da cidade. Subimos via bondinho e viemos descendo devagarzinho. O sol estava uma delicia, o ceu ... Read more >

Tags: wellington, weekend, beach, botanic garden, fim de semana, praia, jardim botanico

Diving and Snorkelling paradise: The Perenthian Islands

MALAYSIA | Thu, 9 Jul 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [294] | Video

  A supremely confident muslim woman in a headscarf ushered all the bleary eyed tourists off the bus in Kuala Besut at about 5 in the morning. She lead us towards the harbour and to an office where they sold boat tickets to the island. She was rushing ... Read more >

Tags: diving, snorkelling, island, beach, wildlife, hut

Koh Pha Ngan and not a full moon party in sight

THAILAND | Thu, 25 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [152]

The crossing over to Koh Pha Ngan was ludicrously rough. People were puking their guts up into the sea at the stern of the catamaran while it see-sawed in and out of the waves. It was too rough to sail but the boat was full to bursting and there was ... Read more >

Tags: island, beach, hut

Koh Tao: Diving deeper

THAILAND | Sun, 21 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [185]

Once I had finished the course I wanted more. The sensation of being underwater is incredibly addictive.   Terry suggested that a good way to feed the habit would be to do the next course, Advanced open water. You get to do 5 dives, each with a different ... Read more >

Tags: diving, island, beach, quad bike, party, fire

Go swim in the Med… get stung by a jellyfish

FRANCE | Fri, 19 Jun 2009 | By tonielle_krisanski | Views [252] | Comments [1]

Wow! That is the best word to describe my experience of Nice. I arrived in the afternoon by train from Marseilles, and the first thing I did was walk down to the beach. An easy 15min walk and I was having ice cream on the beach in Nice! That evening ... Read more >

Tags: nice, monaco, beach, med

Following The "Treasure Map"

FRANCE | Sat, 13 Jun 2009 | By tonielle_krisanski | Views [215] | Comments [1]

Well I’m sure you’re all wondering what happened after I left you last. I was on the train to Lyon, hoping that I’d have a bed at the only hostel in town… don’t panic, everything worked out. It was surprisingly easy to get to the hostel, a bus, then ... Read more >

Tags: marseilles, cassis, lyon, calanque, beach

Zooposedly Zoobic. = Impromptu Awesome Zambales Beach Trip!

PHILIPPINES | Fri, 12 Jun 2009 | By karolsee | Views [59]

Independence Day Plans as of June 9: Anawangin beach bumming, island hopping experience. -It was sometime May. Just a few days after our Sagada adventures. Still pretty high about our recent adventures, craved for more. Called up my adventure-mates. ... Read more >

Tags: beach, photography

tropical queensland

AUSTRALIA | Mon, 8 Jun 2009 | By leah | Views [113]

Last week, I finally made it over to Australia's lovely east coast. After eight months of being in Western Australia, it was fantastic to see more of this expansive nation. Queensland, Oz's northeastern state, was our first stop. We started in the ... Read more >

Tags: queensland, australia, pacific ocean, beach, noosa national park, whitsundays, airlie beach, sailing

The Halong Bay Fiasco 2

VIETNAM | Sun, 7 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [177]

Day two of the Halong bay tour started surprisingly similarly to day one. Claire was in the shower when the phone rang. The voice said ”Finish! Leave hotel now!” I looked at my watch: 7.10 and we had been told to meet at 7.30. Ignoring what had been ... Read more >

Tags: tour, island, trekking, island, beach, boat, canoe

Suited and booted in Hoi An

VIETNAM | Sun, 31 May 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [191]

We lucked out with the bus to Hoi An – it was quite a bit more modern and seemed to have been designed with passengers in mind unlike its previous incarnations. This time there was a space for your bag rather ... Read more >

Tags: tailor, beach, bike

Funky monkey and the floating bar: Nha Trang

VIETNAM | Thu, 28 May 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [437] | Video

We had decided to do an island tour from Nha Trang - the punters on the boat were an eclectic mix of English gap year types, Filipino engineers working on the soon to open Nha Trang Marriot and a few locals ... Read more >

Tags: beach, boat, bar, island

The old Vietnamese casino-heist scam

VIETNAM | Mon, 25 May 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [217] | Comments [5]

As usual, the bus was late. After half an hour of waiting patiently in the travel agency we went across the road for some beers, their arrival, of course coinciding with that of the sleeping bus to Nha Trang, ... Read more >

Tags: beach, omelette, scam, casino

Paradisiacal Heaven

TANZANIA | Thu, 7 May 2009 | By casey_hamilton | Views [109]

After a sad farewell to Maasailand and my amazing host family, i jumped on a plane headed to Zanzibar. The plane ride was more like a bus trip. The plane begins in Kisumu, in northern Kenya, and flies to Nairobi where it drops off a few people, picks ... Read more >

Tags: zanzibar, paje, tanzania, beach

Southern Spain - Barcelona to Cadiz: Cadiz to Algarve

SPAIN | Fri, 1 May 2009 | By jjassen | Views [187] | Comments [1]

I have just had the best 5 days of the trip so far. Rented a car with Lisa and road-tripped through southern spain and portugal, sleeping in the car, waking up to a different beach each morning. Now, early on in the journey, our first full day ... Read more >

Tags: barcelona, spain, cadiz, faros, portugal, algarve, southern, ocean, camping, beach

Burns on the Beach

AUSTRALIA | Tue, 10 Feb 2009 | By alorraine | Views [192]

Father, it has been three weeks since my last confession, and even that wasn’t about the country I’m in right now.     Must try harder.   I will come back and fill in the gaps left by laziness, but I thought seeing ... Read more >

Tags: beach, big day out, birthday, drinking

Kuta Cra Cra - Bali, très joli !

INDONESIA | Thu, 5 Feb 2009 | By cedric_c | Views [313] | Comments [4]

Comme annoncé dans mon dernier post, je suis maintenant en Indonésie sur l'île de Bali. Après un mois de grand soleil and Thaïlande, l'arrivée sous le ciel indonésien est un peu abrupte : il pleut. Oui il pleut ... Read more >

Tags: bali, indonésie, kuta, beach, surf, bedugul, tanah lot, monkeys, bats

A hot beach near Narnia - the Coromnadel

NEW ZEALAND | Mon, 26 Jan 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [346] | Comments [1]

Our next destination was the Kauaeranga Valley in Coromandel Forest park where a clutch of DOC campsites are set in a forest environment. A long gravel road took us up from the modern but shut Info ... Read more >

Tags: beach, hot spring

Sur les traces de Leonardo

THAILAND | Wed, 14 Jan 2009 | By cedric_c | Views [337] | Comments [10] | Video

Nous avons finalement quitté la folie de Bangkok pour partir vers l'île de Ko Phi Phi (prononcer « Co Pi Pi »). Après deux heures de vol et trente minutes de taxi, nous arrivons à Phuket. De là, nous prendrons ... Read more >

Tags: thailande, beach, koh phi phi, volley ball, thai boxing, phuket, tsunami

Saying Hello from Sydney!

CANADA | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 | By theblackgirls | Views [310] | Comments [5]

Alot has happened since we left Singapore! When we went to board the plane from Singapore to Sydney, we were bumped to "business class."  Excited at this upgrade, we had yet to realize what this all entailed... Seats large enough for 3 people,  ... Read more >

Tags: sydney, beach, manly, blue mountains

Vung Tau Kapow!

VIETNAM | Thu, 1 Jan 2009 | By willpeach | Views [134]

New Years Eve; no countdown no fireworks. Kind of how I like it. Vung Tau’s two stretches of dirty beach remained serene in the new hours of 2009. No-one was around, not even the big hairy rats stirred. It was low key. Vung Tau is a popular beach ... Read more >

Tags: vung tay, beach, new year

I got hit by a bus...[UPDATED 23/12/08]

VIETNAM | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 | By cedric_c | Views [249] | Comments [1]

Ahaha - only joking :) I am still in Nah Trang and everything is going very well. Jobst is gone and I am now travelling with Robert - a very friendly and social guy from Netherlands. He has got so many travelling experience to tell and he is great ... Read more >

Tags: nah trang, vietnam, beach, friends, bus, hoi an


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