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Chasing vampires and bears

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on September 2, 2021September 2, 2021
  • Europe

I’ve always wanted to explore Romania for its fascinating folklore, fairytale castles, and dark forests with wolves and bears, and especially Transylvania for the vampires.

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Camping in Kyrgyzstan

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on May 27, 2019June 5, 2019
  • kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan is all about the spectacular scenery. The Tian Shan (Heavenly) mountains cover most of the country. Pretty much the whole country is above 1500m and almost half is between 3000m and 7500m. In between […]

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From culture shock to panda bears

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on April 20, 2019May 28, 2019
  • China

Arriving in China felt like we’d landed on an entirely different planet. One where we didn’t know the customs, how things worked or how to behave, where we couldn’t even communicate or manage the basics […]

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Into the wilds of Nam Ha

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on April 15, 2019May 28, 2019
  • Laos

Even though we paid more than double the going price for tickets on the one-whole-seat-per-person fancy van, somehow we still ended up sitting in the aisle on the public bus to Oudomxay in northern Laos. […]

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The perfect harmony of Luang Prabang

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on April 12, 2019May 28, 2019
  • Laos

There’s something special about the town of Luang Prabang. Almost everybody says so and I have to agree. It has a kind of perfect harmony. It feels ancient and it is. Apparently it’s been here […]

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Galapagos – The Enchanted Isles

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on March 30, 2016February 13, 2019
  • Ecuador stories

The Galápagos Islands are most famous for the role they played in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. I was quite surprised to learn that he was only ashore here for less than a month. He […]

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In Search of Sarayaku

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on March 19, 2016February 9, 2019
  • Ecuador stories

We decided to have just one more jungle adventure before leaving the Amazon. JH had his heart set on finding Sarayaku (Sarayacu), an indigenous community somewhere in the Amazon in Ecuador. We were inspired by […]

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Adventures in the Amazon

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on March 7, 2016February 6, 2019
  • Ecuador stories

We flew into Iquitos because it’s the only way to get there. Flying over the Andes was pretty awesome. Iquitos is the entry to the Peruvian Amazon, a city not connected by road to the […]

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Lake Titicaca and the Sacred Inca Valley

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on March 1, 2016February 2, 2019
  • Bolivia stories

Lake Titicaca is as magical as it sounds, perched up high in the Andes like a beautiful calm freshwater inland sea. It was sacred to the Incas as the birthplace of the world. It’s pretty […]

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Coroico in the Clouds

  • by Adventurous Hermit
  • Posted on February 26, 2016April 8, 2016
  • Bolivia stories

The old road from La Paz to Coroico used to be THE actual worst road in the world, also known as the ‘death road’. It’s still used for cycling thrill seekers, although a number of […]

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About me

I have always been a wanderer, a traveller, a seeker-of-adventures.

Growing up on a farm outside the small, pretty village of Urbenville at the edge of the Border Ranges, Northern Rivers NSW Australia, I spent my childhood poring over atlases and dreaming of faraway places.

When I finished school I worked for a few months, saved some money and set off travelling to Europe – and I never really stopped. The longest I stayed in one place between Urbenville and the age of 40 was 3 years.

Somehow, in the middle of life I got stuck. The longer I stayed still, the harder it was to move. I got so comfortable that I put down roots and turned into a hermit.

So, in the spirit of shaking things up, my partner JH and I are off on adventures outside the hermit-hole. This blog is about the journey.

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