Tag Archives: nature travel

This post will show you the drive along Australia South East Coast. We are driving in the Victorian countryside from Wilsons Promontory and Lakes Entrance to Merimbula and will also visit the Ninety Mile Beach and Mallacoota. The post is a part of our Melbourne to Sydney road trip by campervan. Mallacoota was our last stop in Victoria before entering ...

We started our road trip from Melbourne to Sydney by driving from Melbourne to Wilsons Promontory National Park. That is a three hour drive, 250 km, but you can add some nice side trips and see more of the country.  This was our grand Australian road trip which we wanted to make slowly, to see as much of Australian nature ...

When in Victoria, Australia wanted to go sightseeing in Melbourne. How was it and what did we see in the Australian metropolis of four million people? To get to the sights we mostly walked. We also used the free circle tram and, when needed, other trams to more distant locations.  We will now tell you what the top sights of Melbourne ...

Did you know you can spot penguins and possums right in the city of Melbourne, without traveling long distances for that? We will show you some Melbourne penguins on the pier and afterwards possums in a park. There is a colony of Little Penguins living at the end of St Kilda Pier and to see them you should go there ...

This post will show you the tropical island Ko Samet in the Gulf of Thailand. Once on the island, we explored to all parts of it so here they are, the best Ko Samet beaches. Ko Samet is not far away from Bangkok, you only need to travel three hours south. This makes its beaches easy to reach from the ...

Want to combine Bangkok with a beach holiday? In that case think about the Gulf of Thailand islands and try Ko Samet. The drive from Bangkok to Ko Samet only takes three hours, in which time you will enter a different world.  We spent lazy days on Ko Samet’s white powder beaches, and active days on the island’s jungle paths. ...

We rented a car and drove to inland of the Gran Canaria east coast to check out what the region offers for tourists. On our drive from Las Palmas to Aguimes we saw historic Guanche caves, a volcano crater with a farmhouse and an finally a striped terracotta canyon. On the way down we also found a botanical garden – ...

This post will take you on a Las Palmas mountain trip through the scenic north of Gran Canaria. We will cross the lush, green northern mountains, a fertile region with pretty villages and gingerbread houses. The highest point on the road is Vega de San Mateo at 1 100 m, after which it’s all the way down to the island’s ...

In this post we will show you the Gran Canaria mountains south of the highest peaks. We will invite you to join our scenic mountain drive starting from the south coast, for which purpose we rented a car. What are the southern mountains like? Stunning scenery, lakes and ravines, palms and pine forests. And a lot of Canarian history: archaeological ...