by Mark Butland | 10/02/2020 | Iceland
We landed at Keflavík airport at 11am and met Campeasy, who took us to pick up our van for the trip. The first job was a trip to the nearest Bónus supermarket to stock up. Once the van was full, we set off on the longest drive of the whole trip, from Keflavík to our...
by Mark Butland | 02/08/2019 | Bali
On our final day we packed up and took a quiet moment to look back on the holiday, from the beach clubs of Seminyak to the volcano and rice terraces inland. Then our private driver took us down to the airport, which is a long drive from Ubud in the traffic. We loved...
by Mark Butland | 01/08/2019 | Bali
We spent our second-to-last day at the Tegalalang Rice Terraces. The terraces are cut step by step into the hillsides and go back a long way in Bali’s farming history. The island’s traditional way of sharing water between rice fields, the subak system, is on UNESCO’s...
by Mark Butland | 31/07/2019 | Bali
We got up well before dawn to trek to the summit of Mount Batur, an active volcano that rises to 1,717m. The Batur caldera has been a UNESCO Global Geopark since 2012, and it gets cold at the top in the hours before sunrise. Reaching the top just as the sun lit up the...
by Mark Butland | 30/07/2019 | Bali
We rode the winding roads by moped to reach the Monkey Forest in Ubud. The forest is laid out according to Hindu principles and is home to a huge number of monkeys, most of them very playful. They’re long-tailed macaques, and the sanctuary now counts more than a...
