Ahhhhhh isn’t he soooooo cute!!!!!!!! I wanna take one home! Que boniiiiiiiiiiito!!!!!!!! Quiero llevarme uno! We visited the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary on the outskirts of Brisbane. Home to some 130 or so Koala bears, lots of kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, emus, dingos, snakes and lizards, as well as parrots and bats and lots of other […]
G’day from us all down under!!! Buenasss desde los antipodes!!! How do you celebrate New Year’s Eve in Sydney?? You make some sandwiches and something to drink, you put your wings and the glitter and fly (or take the train!) to the Botanic Gardens for a picnic and get the best place to watch the […]
G’day all from Sydney Quene & James outside Sydney Opera House We made it to the other side of the world, half way round. Seem to be having a prob right now with getting thumbnails for the pictures, but if you click on the links below a new window will open with the full sized […]
Greetings from Koh Chang. Koh Chang is part of a group of islands to the east of Thailand, not too far from the coast of Cambodia. As we were stuck for time in Thailand (just 11 days) we decided to go to Koh Chang as it’s only a 5hr bus drive from the capital and […]
Hi from Thailand! Well here we are in Bangkok, bustling sprawling capital of Thailand. Very well planned city, with amazing transport, they’ve got motorways everywhere, underground and Sky Train, plus boats along the Chao Phya River as well as a buses everywhere! Our first stop was a trip out to Ayuthaya – the ancient capital […]
Hi from Yangshou in Guanxi province, in Southwest China. This area, along with the main city of Guilin about 60km north is famous for the surrounding countryside, with it’s characteristic limestone peaks, that you can see in many a traditional chinese painting. Yangshuo is also a travellers mecca, lots of people from everywhere decend here […]
We decided to go on a 3day cruise along the Yangze River, the 3rd longest river in the world at 6,300 km. Famous for the 3 gorges, some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Also just as famous for the 3Gorges dam being built accorss the river, which will unfortunately flood parts of […]
We had the chance to visit some Giant Pandas in a Qinling Animal Rescue Centre a couple of hours from Xi’an in central China. The Giant Panda is an endangered animal, there are currently only 1500 Giant Pandas in China, their native country. As they are solitary animals they tend to have a very low […]
Impressive or what…???? Hi All! Here we are in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province, and one time capital of China. This city of 6 million is also a walled city, following along the traditional city grid layout. This is a very modern city, very clean, with some well preserved sights. It actually reminds Quene a […]
Hi All, we’ve put up some more photos in the Beijing II post, check em out! Here we are in Pingyao, about 350km southwest of Beijing. This town, delared by UNESCO as World Heritage site a couple of years ago, and deservedly so, is an excellent example of what life was like in China about […]
James & Quene