Taiping is nestled in a beautifully rainforested valley between the well known Ipoh and Penang. For this reason it is overlooked by many and only briefly visited by the few. On a whim we decided to go there as we weren’t sure about heading to Ipoh and we loved it. Taiping is in our eyes the hidden gem of Malaysia…
We couldn’t recommend the sights, sounds and flavours of Sri Lanka more. It is such a diverse country with cool, rainy hills in the centre, hot sunny beaches around the edges, a varied and vibrant capital city and even a scorching desert in the north (though we didn’t get there). Below is a complete guide to Sri Lanka 2019 with…
One of the most Instagrammed tourist attraction in Sri Lanka is the nine arch bridge designed by the British over 100 years ago. The majority of people take a train from Colombo or Kandy to Ella to enjoy the scenic rail and see the bridge. We decided to cut it up into stages starting first in Nuwara Eliya, aka: Little…
Kandy is really a brilliant city, worth coming to visit and with such a lot to do. As you may have noticed from the previous Sri Lanka Blogs we do not have a very large budget so we decided not to take a tour as most people seem to do, but instead we explored this amazing city ourselves and met…
The top tourist attraction in Sri Lanka, and likely the most expensive one as well, is the Lion Rock in Sigiriya. First Sri Lankan Food We woke up early as we were checking out and wanted to climb the rock before the day was up. Our hostel, as basic as it was, offered free breakfast which we decided to take…
After years of thinking about it, and months of planning and booking for it, we are finally off. We quit our jobs, rented out our house and set off for our year long world adventure. Sitting on the plane with metal cutlery and then in a comfortable designer seat in Zurich, it was hard to imagine the experiences that lay…
