The Largest Bird Park in Asia
It’s been over seven years in the making, but Singapore’s Bird Paradise is finally here! Once housed in Jurong in the southwestern part of the island, these birds have been […]
It’s been over seven years in the making, but Singapore’s Bird Paradise is finally here! Once housed in Jurong in the southwestern part of the island, these birds have been […]
Raja Ampat is a spectacular place for anyone who wants to dive, snorkel, or just hang out on remote Indonesian atolls. This fantastic travel destination is spectacularly beautiful, lightly touristed, […]
Last weekend, Prescott and I took a kayak trip to see a couple of Singapore’s islands from the water. For this particular adventure, we took a 10-minute bumboat ride from […]
My sister and I have just returned from Ihuru, a postage-sized island that’s part of North Male Atoll, smack in the middle of The Republic of the Maldives. The entire […]
There are all sorts of neighborhoods and old housing estates in Singapore, but few are as well known as the satellite town of Bishan. No one seems to mind that […]
While I went to the Whitsundays in search of life in the ocean, I found plenty of creatures on land. Most of the birds were not particularly interested in being […]
People come to the Whitsundays to sail, to dive, or just to sit on the beach, but I came to snorkel! The islands off of the coast here are surrounded […]
Every year the high school at the Singapore American School shuts down for one week in February so that all of the students can have an “interim” experience embarking on […]
We’ve made the crossing from the North Island to the South, relinquishing our rental car in Wellington on a cloudy morning … … and making our way across Cook Strait […]
When we ask people on the North Island what their favorite city in New Zealand is, the universal answer is “Wellington,” the country’s capital. So we arrived with high hopes. […]