Chong Heng Backpackers
“People used to come here and stay… We’d have so much fun – I’d take them out into the countryside, down to the kampungs and show them what life here […]
Tag Archives: Slow Travel
Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail: Days 1-2
After my last post from Lake Tekapo, I bussed up to Mount Cook Village. Mount Cook herself remained coyly draped in cloud throughout that first day, despite the northwest wind’s […]
Crazy Yak on a Bike
In a dramatic departure from what constitutes routine here at Little Yak, this month has found me cycle-touring New Zealand’s beautiful South Island. My humble apologies for the sudden shift […]
Seven Travel Secrets
I’m travelling with a diary that I bought in Bangkok earlier this year. On one page near the front I’ve been compiling a list of grandly titled “Secrets of Travel” […]
One year on…
When I started the Little Yak blog in August 2012, I really didn’t know what I wanted to say – it took me until January 2013 to work up to […]
Travel with care.
Why do we travel? I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. Perhaps – as the writer Bruce Chatwin believed – we’re all nomads at heart. Perhaps we secretly yearn […]
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