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Crocosaurus Cove Darwin (Review)

I recently visited Crocosaurus Cove during a 48 hour trip to Darwin as a guest of Tourism NT.
While it’s main purpose is obviously to showcase crocodiles big and small what impressed me equally about Crocosaurus Cove was the wide range of Australian reptiles on display and If I’d had more time instead of doing underwater [...]

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Siem Reap Cambodia – Home to Exquisite Temples

GUEST ARTICLE: After visiting Phnom Penh we rented a car and driver and drove 300kms to Siem Reap. Getting out of the city was a bit slow going at first because of the traffic but fortunately it thinned out as we entered the countryside.

About 70kms out of Siem Reap we came upon a [...]

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Phnom Penh Cambodia – The Killing Fields

GUEST ARTICLE: This was our first time to Cambodia and oh what a time we had! We arrived in early March just at the end of dry season. The temperature was still pretty hot but still made for some great days and beautiful warm nights. We caught a cab from the airport to [...]

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Photo Highlights – Brief Glimpse of Bali Indonesia

After spending 48 hours in Darwin, I was a guest of Air Asia on a very brief tour of Bali. Air Asia is a Malaysian owned Airline that has a fleet of Airbus A320 jets covering South East Asia and has won the Skytrax award for Worlds Best Low-Cost Airline in 2009, 2010 and 2011. [...]

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Photo Gallery – Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, Tidbinbilla

Earlier this week I visited NASA’s Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) located at Tidbinbilla, 40min drive from Canberra in the Australian Capitol Territory (ACT). CDSCC’s radio telescopes provide continuous radio contact with spacecraft exploring the Solar System and beyond such as Cassini (Saturn), twin Exploration Rovers (Mars), Messenger spacecraft (Mercury), New Horizons spacecraft (Pluto) [...]

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Outpost Project – Street Art Exhibition Cockatoo Island, Sydney (Review)

I’m a fan of thoughtful street art that isn’t just mindless tagging of a name over and over again like the mural in Chippendale, Sydney “knowledge breaks down walls”. So when I heard that the biggest street art exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere was being shown on Cockatoo Island I arranged to go there after [...]

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48 Hours in Santa Monica, Los Angeles without Carmageddon

GUEST ARTICLE: Depending on your time of arrival it can take about one hour to reach the famous rays and waves of Santa Monica from Los Angeles International Airport (more commonly known as ‘LAX’) after battling the famous highway gridlock – which was recently predicted to reach ‘Carmageddon’ status .

Prime Time Shuttle , [...]

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48 hours in Darwin, Northern Territory – Photo Highlights

I recently visited Darwin, the capital city of Australia’s Northern Territory during the Buildup season in late October as a guest of Tourism NT, along with several other journalists. I’ve visited Darwin before on holiday so was able to plan ahead and decided that I wanted to focus my photography on the outdoor markets and [...]

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Red Centre Northern Territory – Australian Outback Photo Highlights

I’m flying to Darwin tomorrow as a guest of Tourism Northern Territory (Tourism NT) with a group of other journalists and that reminded me of my backpacking trip through the Red Centre of Australia in the Northern Territory a few years ago.
Checking back through this Road Less Traveled website I realised that I hadn’t [...]

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Incredible Sipadan Snorkelling – Pom Pom Island, Malaysia

GUEST ARTICLE: It was a beautiful day in March when we flew into Tawau Airport in Borneo. Our destination was an island called Pom Pom which is located off the east coast of Sabah, Malaysia. It is one of the few unique islands found on the South China Sea. When I think of Borneo [...]

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Thoughts on Trip Through South Africa Eastern Cape Province

South Africa is a land of great contrasts with big modern cities and dirt poor townships. Yet when people speak about the country it’s usually about the Big 5 animals like lions or a golden sunset on a wide open Savannah landscape dotted with Thorn trees.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m as much of a fan [...]

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Photo Highlights – South Africa Eastern Cape

I had a great time travelling through the Eastern Cape province of South Africa with a group of journalists from around the world as a guest of Tourism South Africa for a week in September. It’s hard to get a true feeling of a country in one week when you’re travelling with a group of [...]

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5 Tips for First Time Japan Business Travellers

I’m flying to Japan today for a short business trip to Osaka, Kobe and Tokyo, including a bullet train ride on the Nozomi Shinkansen (bullet train). Have you also been asked by your company to head over to Japan and are worried that you’ll make a bad impression?

The number one thing you should keep in [...]

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Abu Dhabi – Worth More Than A One Night Stopover

GUEST ARTICLE: Holy Hotness!! Abu Dhabi was a scorching +42C when we arrived and +45C when we left. The air was dry as a bone and the sun absolutely scorching. You really couldn’t stand out in the open for very long before you literally started to self-bathe and sprout a Rudolf nose. [...]

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Petra, Jordan – Step Back To An Ancient Time

GUEST ARTICLE: Our first stop in Jordan was to the Dead Sea where we spent 2 wonderful nights floating in the very salty water. Afterwards we drove to the ancient city of Petra. I can see why Petra is dubbed one of the top places to see before you die. We are so [...]

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