Namaste. Having bid farewell to the majority of my fellow Everest Base Camp trekkers, it was time for something a little different and a complete change from my original plan of visiting Pokhara for a few days. I was supposed to be heading west to Pokhara which has a stunning lakeside location by the Annapurna mountain region. However, as I mentioned in my previous blog.. Ashok, our group leader for the Base Camp trek had such an influence on me that I decide...

Namaste! So here it is, the big one.. the Mount Everest Base Camp trek in Nepal! Around 18 months ago I was sat at home in Manchester when I began watching a programme called “Walking The Himalayas”. Levison Wood is an explorer/adventurer who gave himself the arduous task of walking the length of the Himalayas. After getting hooked following his journey, it inspired me to do something similar, granted nowhere near on the same scale as he, but to travel to N...

Waking up in a king size bed was an absolute treat after my previous nights sleep in the back of a Toyota Corolla.. and I was waking up in one of my favourite cities again. Melbourne was still reeling from what was initially thought to be a terror attack when a car ploughed into pedestrians on the sidewalk outside Flinders Street Station. However, this initial thought was quashed when it turned out the driver was just mental due to a drug addiction. Pretty sc...

Following my flight from Perth, I landed at Adelaide Airport late on Sunday evening where I was met by my two Aussie friends.. Olivia and Lizzy. I met the both of them on a tour of The Great Wall of China back in October. We struck up a chord that day, then met up again a few days later in Xi’an, and having kept in touch ever since they kindly invited me to stay with them for a few days, as well as show me around their home town. Not only was it great to se...

I arrived in Perth late on Tuesday night following a 4 and a half hour flight from Brisbane. It was too late in the day to be doing anything once I'd arrived at the Wickham Retreat Backpackers, but that was fine by me.. I hit the sack no sooner had I checked in. It was my first visit to the Western Australia city.. it's so far away from anywhere else in the country that I never made the effort to reach here during my previous trip to Australia. However, this ti...