Andy and Sam Rowe have just returned from Java and Sumatra where they celebrated Andy’s ‘significant’ birthday at the 2600m-high crater rim of Mount Ijen. The vivid blue lake of the caldera is the largest expanse of mineralised acidic water in...
Our innovative adventure partners Intrepid Travel have just released for 2025 a ‘Not Hot List’ aimed at highlighting less-visited destinations, away from overcrowded travel ‘hotspots. The list of 10 locations is definitely for more adventurous...
Rob is just back from 3 weeks travelling with his family in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia and he reports here on their journey through Flores and its offshore islands. An overnight stay at Jakarta airport was followed by a short flight onwards to Labuan Bajo at the...
At last! Some long-overdue sunshine has arrived here in the UK. Let’s enjoy it while it’s here, but if you want to secure more reliably warm temperatures in the coming months, here’s a selection of great trips we’ve hand-picked from our various...
Wondrous things can happen at any moment on a polar voyage. In Antarctica, everyone may suddenly rush to the deck to see a pod of humpback whales leaping and twisting amidst the ice floes. Or in the Arctic, a lone male polar bear can approach across the pack ice and...
