Singapore
After a busy time in NZ it’s R and R in Singapore
New Zealand
A 4 week tour around North and South Islands
Uzbekistan
A journey along the silk route
Budapest to Bucharest
A river cruise heading east from Budapest along the Danube to Bucharest.
Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons
Road trip to see Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole
Phinda Forest Lodge
Safari in a south Africa
Yangon to Mandalay
Cruise Itinerary
UPSTREAM ITINERARY
DAY 1 – RANGOON (YANGON)
Embark and sail up the Rangoon River and enter the Twante Canal, which connects the Yangon River with the Irrawaddy Delta. We stop on route at the Twante Town and explore city center.
DAY 2 – MAUBIN AND NYAUNG DON
In morning we walk to visit Maubin bustling market and […]
Myanmar or Burma
Unlike our last trip to the Maldives where we flew with Qatar, this time we used good old Emirates direct from Newcastle. We flew direct to Yangon from Dubai where we had a couple of days before doing a gentle cruise along the Irrawaddy river to Mandalay then back home via Bangkok. The flights were fine […]
Things to do in Yangon
One thing you must do is visit the Shwedagon Pagoda
1. Shwedagon Pagoda
Without doubt, the Shwedagon Pagoda is one of the most important religious sites in Yangon, and all of Myanmar.
The golden chedi of the pagoda, which reaches a height of 99 meters, is visible throughout the city, and it shimmers in the sun with its incredibly golden surface. […]
Helengelli daily diving
Daily diving Helengeli in the Maldives
Helengelli local diving
Local diving in Helengeli
Helengeli Snorkelling
Snorkelling Oblu by Atmosphere at Helengeli
Whilst Helengeli was known as an island for divers before it was taken over by Atmosphere it also has fantastic house reefs on both the north and south sides of the island. As both of these reefs are in channels that lead from the open sea to the inside of […]
Helengeli diving
Diving Helengeli in the Maldives
Helengeli Island has a wonderful reputation worldwide, for its incomparably exotic house-reef & superb Channel Diving, just meters from the shoreline.
The island has a unique location at a primary entrance to Male‘ Atoll, in the middle of a Channel (channel on both sides of the island) and is also one of […]
Maldives – Oblu by Atmosphere at Helengeli
Oblu by Atmosphere on Helengeli Island in the Maldives
We decided upon a recommendation to fly with Qatar rather than Emirates, this involved an extra flight but still was quicker getting back to the UK. Qatar were fantastic and the flight had a superb bar which surprisingly was deserted. The airport in Qatar, as are all […]
Diving Kanifushi
Diving Kanifushi in the Maldives
There are many dive sites in the atoll but generally the ones dived are the ones closest to Kanifushi and the gallery below shows them. The ones Paul dived were as follows:
Medu Faru
Kani corner
3 Rocks
Kani West
Kani Medu Kandu
Kani Caves
Veyvah Kandu
Medu Faru Kandu
The Shipyard
Although there is a Manta cleaning station, there were very […]
Maldives Kanifushi
Kanifushi in the Maldives
After a couple of flights and transfer through Dubai we arrived at Male in the Maldives and were taken to a lounge to await our seaplane transfer to Kanifushi. After boarding the plane the pilot couldn’t get it started and although the mechanic, armed only with WD40, managed to start the plane, […]
Dubai
This is the city to rival Las vegas without being tacky, its motto should be biggest is best.
We were so lucky to see the fountains at sunset as they were not due on until after dark but we think that they were making a promotional video and caught them at 5.00 as the sun […]
Tuscany
// Although both of us have travelled quite a lot in Italy over the years, neither of us have been to Tuscany. So courtesy of Jet 2 we flew directly to Pisa, picked up a car and drove to San Gimignano where we had a lovely apartment and from here visited Pisa, Sienna, Florence, etc.
Below […]
The Dalesway
The Dales Way is an 84-mile (135 km) Long Distance Footpath in Northern England, from (south east to north west) Ilkley, West Yorkshire to Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria.
The Dales Way passes through two National Parks: the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Lake District National Park. The first half of the walk follows the River Wharfe upstream to the main watershed of northern England at Ribblehead. The second half follows several river valleys (Dentdale, River […]
Wonders of the World
The Seven Ancient Wonders were:
Great Pyramid of Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Seven New Wonders are:
Great Wall of China
Petra
Christ the Redeemer
Machu Picchu
Chichen Itza
Colosseum
Taj Mahal
The Seven Natural Wonders of the World are:
Grand Canyon
Great Barrier Reef
Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
Mount Everest
Aurora
Parícutin volcano
Victoria Falls
The Seven […]