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They call it “America’s best idea”. In 1916, America created the world’s first protected National Park. It was an idea that would take off around the world, and dramatically impact the United States. For any traveller wanting to experience the beauty of the great outdoors, this decision has made America one of the greatest countries […]
The emergence of the sharing economy is ushering in a new age of travel. Can car sharing platform Turo change the way we rent cars? AirBnB has opened up whole cities to travellers, who no longer need to stay in overpriced hotels or overcrowded hostels in “touristy” parts of town. There are some big downsides to […]
Four and a half years ago we were attempting to save our meagre incomes (save them from the pub that is) and selling our frankly crap possessions in yard sales, with the idea of leaving Australia and doing “something exciting, somewhere else”. It was a vague plan and when pressed for details, at work events […]
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Hot Air Ballooning in Cappadocia (Getting High on Christmas Day) from Asha and Ryan on Vimeo. We decided to spoil ourselves on Christmas day (also Ryan’s 30th birthday) and take a hot air balloon ride over the jaw dropping landscape in Cappadocia, Turkey. We were staying in a cave hotel in the town of Goreme, […]
Kambol Kart Raceway on the outskirts of Phnom Penh – its as close to MarioKart as I’m ever likely to get. As you can see – we start off pretty slow, but those lines get tighter and speeds faster as the day progresses. It sure felt fast anyway. It’s taken a bit of nagging from […]
Skiing Adventure #1 – The Mt Erciyes Mistake Who even knew you could ski in Turkey? I had no idea you could, but we were after a winter adventure, and the promise of fresh snow, cheap lift tickets, and mountains largely unknown to most travellers seemed like a promising adventure. We booked into a hotel […]
The best decision we made during our trip to Turkey was to visit Cappadocia – although it didn’t seem that way on the drive from the Kayseyi airport to Goreme. On a freezing winter morning, the outskirts of Kayseri took on a depressingly Soviet feel. Empty streets, save for the odd hunched over old lady walking […]
After two years in Asia, we were longing for something we just couldn’t get – cold weather. Miserable, rainy, cold grey skies – you can even miss these things if you are away from them long enough. Living in Phnom Penh, we barely put shoes on anymore, jeans are hardly ever even worn. At first […]
When people told us that Phnom Penh gets really hot in March and April, I thought, “So what, its always hot in Cambodia?”. But now we understand what they were talking about. Its May, and the rains are starting to return to the city – washing away 5 months of thick red dust and soot […]
We decided to get out of tour and do a bicycle tour of some of the islands along the Mekong river near Phnom Penh. I’d almost forgotten we had done something very similar almost a year ago – cycling from island to island along the Mekong in Si Phan Don (4000 islands) in Laos. We’ve […]
Year’s End 2012 from Asha and Ryan on Vimeo. 2012 was a pretty amazing year for Asha and Ryan. Selling out stuff, leaving Australia behind and travelling through Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam before finally settling down to live as expats in Cambodia. Our last video of 2012 sees us hanging out with family […]