The Mauritania Railway just got served Today we did a thing: We began in Nouadhibou where we picked up some supplies for the epic train journey ahead. If you’re serious about this experience, you should definitely pack goggles, warm blankets, scarves,...
After relaxing in Dakhla for 2 night, we drove to the border of Morocco and Mauritania early this morning. About an hour into the journey we suffered a flat tire, which luckily took about 30 minutes to sort out thanks to a friend of the driver’s brother...
Oh Vanuatu, how I “Vanuatu-leave” this place. I know it’s quite a stretch of a pun, but my blogpost title is meant to be read out loud! The world's only underwater post office Let’s begin. After 2 days in The Solomon Islands, we...
Although Nara was not part of our original itinerary, I decided to add this beautiful little city at the last minute after seeing a possible route through there from Osaka to Kyoto. Nara has the largest number of buildings designated National Treasures in Japan as...
After our insanely good Kobe beef dinner at Tor Road Steak Aoyama and having headed onwards from Kobe, we arrived into Osaka at around 10pm and checked into our accommodations at hostel PICNIC. After taking an hour to freshen up, Donna, Shayra, myself, and Luke...
From last night: Hiroshima can now claim one of the weirdest, most discombobulated nights out I’ve had in a while. We started with a quick bite at a random Mexican/Japanese fusion spot that we had all to ourselves, got turned away from an all-you-can-drink...
After 2 days in Nagasaki, we headed northeast for Hiroshima, first boarding the 3:20pm Kamome 26 Train (which leaves hourly on the :20) from Nagasaki Station to Hakata. We arrived on time into Hakata at 5:13pm, transferring to Platform 13 for the Shinkansen...
