If you dream of climbing Mount Everest, but have neither the time (3 months) nor the funds ($70,000 USD) to scale the world’s highest mountain, it may be time to lower your sights slightly and go for Everest Base Camp instead. At 5,545 meters above sea level, Everest Base Camp sits just 350 metres lower…
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Anyone for Everest? Base Camp Here We Come!
While I am not one for making New Year’s Resolutions, I do like to step into a New Year with a goal in sight, and after much deliberation we have decided that 2014 is going to be the year in which we cross ‘Climb Everest Base Camp’ off our ever-growing bucket list! It has been…
Trekking to Everest Base Camp – Yet Another Bucket List Adventure!
After successfully climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in October 2012, I honestly thought that I would never attempt to climb another mountain again. Don’t get me wrong, it was an amazing ‘life-changing’ experience, but it was also one of the hardest things I have ever done, and the thought of sleeping mountainside in minus temperatures for a…
A-Z of Travel – X is for Xcaret & Xel-Ha
How many holiday destinations can you think of that start with an ‘X’? There are probably a million places in China, Tibet and Nepal, but the only place I could think of was Xanadu, and I’m not sure if that even exists or if it is just something Olivia Newton John came up with! So…
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