It would be our third (full) day in New Zealand, and we had so far covered Auckland all the way to Taupo before driving further south to Wellington the capital city. From Wellington we crossed the beautiful Cook Strait to Picton from where we drove over to Murchison to spend our first night on the South Island of New Zealand. Murchison was great, but we had to move on. It was a long long way to our next destination –…
I went to Laos as part of my mission to go to all the South East Asian countries. This is a trip that was long overdue – in fact I had already bought a return ticket to Vientiane a few years ago. As fate might have had it, I had to cancel it because of some other commitment. Then I went to several other countries before the urge to go there returned to me again and I knew I really…
So, there’s this place called Padang that I went to as part of my trip to West Sumatra recently. It was more like the access point to Mount Kerinci – the highest volcano in Indonesia for which we went to West Sumatra but it wasn’t after the climb that we got to explore this beautiful coastal city. Padang is not really that big and obviously less busy compared to – say – Kuta in Bali and probably Surabaya in East…