I love traveling and learning. Where my feet have touched the land.

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My Travels

I've throughly enjoyed backpacking around the world with friends and family. Here are my highlights.

  • One of the oldest jungle in the world, Taman Negara. Highlight here was getting a leech on my foot when trekking through the jungle and once waking in the night for a toilet trip and seeing a swarm of black bugs for the outhouse. One night I'll never forget.
  • Thailand. Spent a number of weeks exploring it all, not the beaches where people just partied to the full moon but I throughly enjoyed the oldest city in the country Ayutthaya where I saw magnificent temples and structures that makes you wonder how old they really were.
  • Batu Caves in Malaysia. Formed 400 million years ago, and meaning 'rock'. they are a lovely shrine and temple today. I remember having to trek a number of steps up and up. And remembering that I needed water a number of times as I took them up.
  • Another in Malaysia is the Cameron Highlands, the tea farms. Funnily enough I went to a Sikh temple there and had Langar from the priest there. They always have their doors open. was a wonder to see and witness.
  • Ponte Vecchio - a magnificent bridge that has a load of history in how it was burnt and the rebuilt many times through the ages. One night, I walked the city of Florence and found myself sitting there with a couple of lovely ladies discussing the uniqueness of the architecture.
  • Copenhagen - specifically cycling around the city and getting lost. Was wonderful to see the canals and colours of their boats.
  • Amphitheatre of El Jem in Tunisia. An oval amphitheatre that makes you first think it's a Gladiator theatre but when you see the structure of rooms and roofing around it, I thought it was an old university or library.
  • Japan. Lots to share here, but two I want to share. Himeji Castle, an unbelievable fortress that has lovely gardens that visitors can tour and find zen. There were trees that were supported with a unique method to ensuring their structure was beautiful, like a scaffold of sticks on them. Koyasan Mount Koya. Having to take a cable car up the mountain, I remember having to layer up my clothing as it was so cold up there. I was blessed to be allowed to sit with the buddhists with their morning rituals and traning. Learnt a lot about meditation and one's mind/body.