By Dina, on July 28th, 2010  The first time I went to Canada, I thought the yellow street signs with a deer picture on it, warning you that a deer might cross the road, were very cute. Coming from Indonesia, I’d never seen street sign bearing an animal picture before.
To most people, kangaroos and penguins are not everyday sights. Unless you live in Australia and New Zealand the chance to meet them in the wild is slim to none (maybe if one escapes from the zoo?) In the past few months as we’ve traveled around Australia and New Zealand, I’ve been very excited [read more...]
By Dina, on July 23rd, 2010 
When I think about a mother kangaroo and her baby joey, I always think of a cute head poking out neatly out from the mommy’s pouch. But as I’ve learned, the truth is not always as pretty as that. This one seems to have stuffed itself in headfirst, and decided that it was cozy enough that way, with the head inside and feet and tail poking out. And this is pretty common among the kangaroos and wallabies we’ve seen.
We were wondering whether the joey was going to stay upside down or somehow flip itself over but it [read more...]
By Dina, on April 28th, 2010  When I’m in a big city, sometimes I get overwhelmed by the city’s skyscrapers, activity and routine. When those moments come, I need an escape. For me, my escape is the beauty of nature, and city gardens are usually do it for me. In Sydney, that place is the city’s botanical garden. Beyond the obvious beauty of any botanical garden in the world, these are some special reasons why I love this place: It’s a cockatoo paradise The first time I heard from Sydneysiders that cockatoos fly free in the suburbs around Sydney, I was astonished. I was invited [read more...]
By Dina, on April 15th, 2010  How do you celebrate Easter? When I was small, I went to Easter egg hunting events for kids. The eggs were real-but-bright-red hard boiled eggs. The same kind of eggs with the ones I saw in kids’ birthday parties. That was back when I still lived in Java. Later on after I moved to Canada, these Easter eggs were not bright red hard boiled anymore, but they transformed into chocolate eggs with various different fillings, wrapped in colorful packages. But this year in Sydney, we went to an Easter celebration that is not themed around eggs. The event size [read more...]
By Dina, on April 9th, 2010  One of our favourite moment in Bali was in Ubud’s monkey forest. We saw a monkey family and I’m amazed by how much they look like a human family, except instead of holding the kids by the hand, they are holding on by the tail.
By Dina, on April 7th, 2010  Update: The Travel Secret eBooks by Tripbase is up! Download it for FREE HERE! Now only it’s free, but for each download, Tripbase will donate $1 to Charity:Water to provide clean drinking water to those people that don’t have access to it yet. Great cause, isn’t it! We are proud to be a part of it. You will find these 3 secrets we are sharing in this post in that eBook. What are you waiting then? I’ve contributeddownloadsDownload Free eBooksled by Tripbase Original post: Here we want to share what we consider as our 3 best kept travel secrets [read more...]
By Dina, on March 24th, 2010  Have you heard of “black water rafting”? More or less, black water rafting is a fun, exciting and adrenalin pumping sport where you use an inflated rubber inner tube (the kind you find in a vehicle tire) to float down the dark underground cave river. It’s also called the “cave tubing” for that reason. It involves floating in the underground calm water, rushing down the rapids, going over the underground water falls, crawling through narrow passages, and walking through shallow and uneven river. Sometimes this activity is combined with cave climbing as well. It’s called black water rafting [read more...]
By Dina, on March 16th, 2010  Sometimes camping in exotic places means you will get exotic local guests. It could be an elephant visiting you in your campers, like what happened to some people camping in Africa.
An elephant visiting campers in Africa. Copyright by Peter Baxter at www.africatravelguide.com
Source: http://www.africatravelguide.com/articles/hard-facts-about-african-travel.html (Check it out for more elephant vs campers pictures!)
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