19/3/16 Today I am feeling so frustrated and disappointed. Yesterday, I set out to climb Mt. Kinabalu. Mount Kinabalu is the highest mountain in South East Asia. From the Himalayas in the north to Guinea in the south, there is none to compare with the 4095.2 metre tall (13435 ft.)…
I returned to Puerto Princesa today after my trip around Palawan Island. Tomorrow, I’ll go back to Manila for a few days before taking another trip to some other islands. Tonight, I’m really living it up. I’m staying at a place called The Citadel Bed and Breakfast. It’s a little bit…
Meteora is a region of Greece which is known for having mountains – giant sandstone boulders, really – upon which monasteries have been built over the centuries. There are now about half-a-dozen monasteries (including a two convents) built on these rocks. In centuries past, some of them were accessible only by…
I arrived in Ouarzazate yesterday rather late in the evening, on the bus from M’Hamid via Zagora. I was happy that I knew exactly where I was going already, since I’d called ahead and talked to the guys at Hotel Baba about getting a room again and the hotel is…
