We left the Cat sanctuary with heavy hearts – due to the emotion invested in our four legged friends, but once we were on the bus to Kuantan, a town only 70kms away, a wave of relief came over u...Read More
After 3 hours on the bus from KL, we arrived in Pekan. Having only had communication via Facebook we were a tad nervous that we wouldn’t get picked up from the bus stop on arrival. I managed t...Read More
After a magnificent two weeks on Tioman island it was time to get back to reality…whatever that is, or maybe we were going from reality into some other place?? We said our goodbyes to our new family...Read More
Island life really suited us. We awoke each day buzzing with what the day had in store. Breakfast and lunch were provided by JTP and all the volunteers ate together, so there was always lots of chat a...Read More
An integral part of this journey was always going to be getting involved in volunteering project work, preferably with animals, and even before leaving Cape Town, we had earmarked a turtle conservatio...Read More
After the fiasco of finding a bed for the night, an apartment had to be found for the proceeding 6 days. Thankfully the internet connection was closer to first world than in the Philippines, so we w...Read More
It was just the four of us again (plus the infinite amount of mosquitos) and the rain: buckets of it; so we were penned in and alternated between the bedroom, veranda and the communal dinning room. Th...Read More
Laura and Mark’s fear was that the wound could be infected due to the primitive conditions at the small clinic at Buena Vista, and unfortunately they were proved correct. Zack’s stitches had to be...Read More
The weather turned in our favour and the kids had great fun, swimming in the sea and building houses for the tiny crabs at the waters edge. Mark went for a long swim and I was quite far out in the w...Read More
Our two families worked together well, and all of our travel plans had been executed with minimum upheaval. The kids even squabbled sporadically like siblings would! It was decided to continue our...Read More
It was decided that the dads and sons would do the gruelling 2 day 1 night hike up Mt Kinabalu which was a not too shabby 4095 Metres. Mark and I had vowed to take the boys up and bring them back as m...Read More
Kota Kinabalu or KK for short, is probably the most populated city in Borneo including the Indonesian part of the Island, but still tiny in comparison to Cape Town. Our apartment was within four huge ...Read More