Tag Archives: nature travel

What is a Great Barrier Reef cruise like? What did the corals look like and how did we spend our time on a reef cruise? On a reef cruise from Port Douglas, Queensland we had a perfect day out on the Coral Sea. The reefs we went to were the Agincourt Reefs at the very outer edge of the Great ...

The banks of the Yarra in central Melbourne are an ideal place to get a feeling of the Australian metropolis. Yarra River views on a winter day are such a magic sight that on my little Yarra river walk I just had to capture the views in photos, the best of which I want to show you in this post. ...

Now we will take you on a journey through the tropical north of Australia. To make a self drive trip to Daintree Rainforest we rented a campervan and headed to the oldest surviving tropical rainforest in the world, listed by UNESCO as a Wet Tropics World Heritage Site. Being such an old rainforest the Daintree contains many ancient plants and ...

This post will take you on a self-drive itinerary from Cairns to Daintree in the tropical far north of Australia.  We will show you the resorts of Palm Cove and Port Douglas and tell you how to get to the magic jungle of Mossman Gorge. Then, before getting across the Daintree River by ferry we will take it easy on ...

This post will show you a Great Ocean Road self drive itinerary. The Great Ocean Road in Australia is one of the world’s scenic drives. We explored the magic coast by car and found koalas, kangaroos and nature wonders. In fact we have made two Great Ocean Road self drive trips. The first time we rented a campervan and took the Great Ocean ...

This post will tell you how to make a day trip to Duden Waterfalls just outside Antalya, Turkey. We took a local dolmus bus to the famous waterfall that is one of the top sights of Antalya and enjoyed the lush Turkish nature, the waterfall and the caves behind it.   Upper Duden Waterfalls, Antalya, Turkey Two Different Duden Waterfalls Duden ...

Phaselis ruins are a former Roman city a short distance from Kemer. To get there you can take a boat tour from Kemer or Antalya, or you can walk along the famous Lycian Way walking trail. To get to Phaselis we only walked a short bit of the Lycian Way that is 500 km long in all. We first took a dolmus bus ...

This post will tell you what to see in Slowinski National Park on the Baltic Coast of Poland. Slowinski is famous for its sand dunes that move 10 meters a year, pushed by the wind. Some of the dunes get high like hills and you can climb on them, on the soft sand. In cooperation with: Polish Tourist Organisation To ...

On our trip to Gdansk we also wanted to see the Baltic coast. So we took bikes and spent a day on a lovely bike trip from Gdansk to Sopot Beach. Sopot, Poland, is a postcard-pretty spa town a bit north of Gdansk, famous for its warm thermal baths, long sandy beach with wooden piers, and Sopot also has music ...

We spent a week on a ski tour in Lapland, in the wilderness of Urho Kekkonen National Park. I flew to Ivalo, Finland with three friends from Switzerland during Easter 2015. All we had with us was backpacks with warm clothes and food. No electricity, no modern conveniences. Only snow, sunshine and wild nature. – Guest post by Maria Nygård ...