Luke and Alice’s travel blog. From Southeast Asia, to Japan, Australia and lastly NZ.
Making our way south down Bruce Highway, we decided to camp for the night at a free site very near to Josephine Falls. This led us 5km off the main road and towards Wooroonooran National Park. The campsite was a large grassy clearing in the forest, right beside Russell River. To our surprise we were... Continue Reading →
The road to Cape Tribulation is truly stunning. Leaving the roads of Cairns behind and joining Captain Cook Highway to drive the 87miles north. The drive took us past golden sandy beaches, mangroves and through rainforest. In Australia’s we would fast learn that there is only really one main road to any certain place. As... Continue Reading →
Flight from Tokyo to Cairns, landed at 4.30am. We went through passport control which involved scanning our passports and receiving a ticket, which you then used at a kind of photo booth. At 4.30am I felt and looked rough, but with security photograph taken and passport approved, we went to collect our bags. Having been... Continue Reading →
Another essential day trip from Tokyo was to go see Mount Fuji. To be honest, we slightly ballsed up our travel arrangements to the Fuji area. It was not as simple as we had hoped. We briefly looked at the bus from Tokyo which can take you directly, however it is very long and we... Continue Reading →
Our day trip to see the snow monkeys meant travelling from Tokyo to Nagano. In Nagano we bought our monkey park passes which included entry price and the transport required to get there. We then got on another train to Yudanaka, where we hopped on the 15minute bus to the Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park. The... Continue Reading →
Our 500km journey from Kyoto to Tokyo on the Hikari bullet train was the longest we had travelled so far in Japan. Yet in under 3hours we made it to the big city by early lunchtime. We had booked into a hostel called Tokyo Imano Ginza, where we would be staying in a dorm for... Continue Reading →
The distance between Hiroshima and Kyoto is 360.2km to be exact. We boarded the Sakura train from Hiroshima at 09:54 towards Shin-Kobe. We switched here and continued on the Hikari train, arriving into Kyoto at 11:57. From Kyoto station it was a mere 15minute walk to our hostel, Kyoto Station Base - Tent accommodation. Here... Continue Reading →
The train to Hiroshima was busy on the morning we planned to travel there. Unfortunately we were unable to reserve seats as it was fully booked. This meant we would have to arrive early in order to gain seats in the unreserved carriages. This was fine by us, as we wanted to get there early... Continue Reading →
We left Hanoi early lunchtime and touched down into Osaka International Airport around 8pm. Immigration checks took longer than expected as we waited in huge queues for over an hour, before receiving a fleeting glance by an airport immigration officer. We collected our bags and decided we would get the train into the city, as... Continue Reading →
We stayed at a place called Jasmine hostel on our first night in Ha Giang. All of the staff were super friendly and helpful. The only small snag was when we arrived we were told that they had overbooked. My stomach immediately dropped as after enduring a rather torturous bus journey for 7hours, I was... Continue Reading →
Gone Travelling 