Garden Route and Cape Town After a brief stop in Jo'Burg we start the long journey south it will take 2 days of long driving to get to the Garden Route, the kids reside themselves to the fact that they will be in a car for 2 days and we expect the odd augment in the back, they handle the journey well, they played top trumps and wrote in their books mostly. We look at the map and a halfway point looks to be Bloemfontein, being a Tolkien fan I knew this is where J...

Sleeping with the hippos in Kruger, South Africa Overnight flights are not the best if you have things to do the next day, you don't get much sleep especially when the mass of Chinese passengers on the flight decide to stay awake talking, overall we found the Chinese very cold and didn't seem to consider others around them, we were definitely glad to be leaving Hong Kong. The flight landed at 7am in Johannesburg and we took a taxi straight to the hotel which I h...

Having fun in Hong Kong We landed in Hong Kong late at night and took a taxi into town, again we had used my points to get free accommodation in Hong Kong the first 2 nights were on Hong Kong Island in the Renaissance and the second two nights were at the Skycity Marriott near Disneyland Hong Kong. The plan for the first 2 days was to do a little shopping and take in the central attractions, the weather was awful, cloudy, foggy and barely reaching 20C, so we th...

Chilling on the Perthentian Islands, Malaysia We get to the Perthentian islands mid-day after little sleep, both I and Edwina are grumpy, we are staying on big island at Tuna Bay resort with a bungalow on the beach, it's around 10 meters to the sea and a 5 meter swim to the coral bed with tropical fish, what a way to detox form our stressful day yesterday. I spend most of the afternoon sleeping, the kids in the sea and Edwina had a difficult time staying awake l...

Humans in the forest, Indonesian Borneo Orang-utan literally means 'humans in the forest' and our trip to Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) was in search of these elusive creatures. We started in Palangkaraya and had hired a boat to take us up river, stopping off at traditional Dayak villages and looking out for wildlife, especially the orang-utan. After an overnight stop in Palangkaraya we were picked up in the morning to board our boat, Edwina asked the driver ...