Dubai stopover, United Arab Emirates After our adventures our stopover in Dubai feels more like a mini holiday before we head home. We are only here for 2 days which is enough to visit the tallest building in the world, thunder down some water slides and celebrate Edwina's birthday. Visiting Africa in the winter had surprised us as just how cold it can get especially at night, visiting Dubai in the summer had the opposite effect, the next day temperatures soare...

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 ...

Back to Indonesia - Bali and Jawa Indonesia has been one of the favourite countries of the kids so far and we were all looking forward to going back, being at Melbourne airport I was thinking that it would be nice to once more leave westernised culture and head into the second part of our trip away. First up was 4 nights in the Conrad again booked with points to ease us back into travelling mode, lazing around the pool and eating out of the executive lounge was...