A #casuallean on the Gubeikou section of the Great Wall. The latest issue of NZ’s number one travel mag Let’s Travel is out and it features my second of three China articles, this one all about the Great Wall and the Gubei Water Town of Gubeikou. People are often a bit stumped as to which…
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The Best Jungle In The South Pacific – My Top 50 Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Photos
Near Tenaru Falls, Guadalcanal. The Solomon Islands may be poor, in some cases, desperately so. And they may also be surprisingly expensive too. Then there’s the not insignificant matter of the civil unrest from the turn of the century. But none of this means you shouldn’t go, nor does it mean there aren’t some very…
New Zealand’s Forgotten World Railway – My Latest Let’s Travel Mag Article + Top 50 Photos
The current issue of New Zealand’s number one travel magazine, Let’s Travel, features my piece on New Zealand’s Forgotten World Railway. Visit LetsTravelMag.com for subscription details (including very well priced digital rates) to read the article. In short, imagine a combination of lush rainforest, remote and enormous farms, abandoned settlements and dozens of tunnels and…
The Best Of Beijing On Foot – My Top 50 Photos
My favourite Beijing skyscraper, the CCTV headquarters. I never expected Beijing to be so clean. Sure, the air isn’t quite like Aotearoa’s, but even the infamous Beijing sky managed some genuine shades of blue while we explored. On a 9-day adventure with the outstanding Wendy Wu Tours (see more at wendywutours.co.nz), I was on assignment…
Skiing In A City Where It Never Snows – How Auckland’s Snowplanet Got Me To Oregon
A huge thanks to the team at Snowplanet in Auckland for not only getting me ready for the ski slopes of Oregon, USA, but for probably going some distance in making sure I made it home in one piece. When I got a call from my editor at Let’s Travel magazine asking if I could…
Why Waitomo’s About So Much More Than Glow Worms – Let’s Travel Article + My Top 50 Waitomo Photos
The ravine near the Mangapohue land-bridge. In the April-May issue of Let’s Travel (New Zealand’s #1 travel magazine) is my feature on Waitomo in the central North Island. Visit letstravelmag.com to subscribe and find out about all the things to do here beyond the seeing the glow worms that first established Waitomo as a tourist…
Dog-Sled Riding & Other Adventures – My Top 40 Central Oregon Photos
Dog-sled riding on the snowy slopes of a volcano, hiking through a rock-climbers Mecca, driving a brand new Chevy Impala through a snow storm, visiting the American city sometimes referred to as “Beer Disneyland” – all these adventures plus a few more are in my trio of Oregon articles in next month’s Let’s Travel…
Oregon Top 50 Photos: Exploring America’s Hippest City + 1 Of Its Greatest Ski Resorts
Skiing at Timberline, Mt Hood, Oregon. Driving in falling snow, dog-sled riding, skiing the mountain with longest season in all of North America, staying in the hotel made famous by the film The Shining and hiking a valley almost as breathtaking as the Grand Canyon, last month’s Oregon road trip for Let’s Travel magazine was…
First Time In Hawaii! My Top 50 Oahu Photos
Waikiki Beach. A couple of weeks ago I jetted into Hawaii for a quick trip enroute to Oregon. Having never been to Hawaii and with three nights on the island of Oahu, I tried to pack in as much as I could. Keep an eye out for an upcoming issue of New Zealand’s #1 travel…
Let’s Travel Magazine Articles To Kuala Lumpur & Lake Tekapo
Standing outside my childhood home in Kuala Lumpur. The latest issue of NZ’s #1 travel mag Let’s Travel is out and it has two of my articles. On pages 50-53 is my tale of going back to my childhood home of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. And by home, I also mean literally in the sense…
Waitomo Road Trip In The New V6 Holden VFII – 10 Photos Including The World Famous #Casuallean
Holden’s new VFII. Just two days out from a road trip to Waitomo in the central North Island for Let’s Travel Magazine (New Zealand’s #1 travel mag – for more go to letstravelmag.com) my car broke down. My trusty, unspectacular, 1600cc 2001 VW Golf station-wagon just conked out. There was also some weird problem with…
Why Robin Williams Loved Rotorua – Top 50 Rotorua Photos Incl. The Black Swan Boutique Hotel
Rotorua’s Black Swan Boutique Hotel. When Robin Williams died, one of the best stories to come through to my Newstalk ZB radio show was from a Kiwi couple who’d once bumped into the actor in Rotorua. They were riding their mountain bikes through the city’s famed Redwood Forest (5600ha, officially named Whakarewarewa Forest) and had taken…