Phew,
Frank here. It has been a busy few weeks around the Our Hiking Blog household. Over the last four weeks I have led a seven, three and four day trip along the Great Ocean Walk in Victoria, Australia for Raw Travel. Today I am doing the preparation for my next 7 day trip commencing tomorrow.
It has been a fascinating experience. Having grown up in the region and explored many areas of the Great Ocean Walk for 40 years I have still been surprised by it’s magnificence.
This is a very different form of walking to what we are used to doing, i.e. it is fully supported with accommodation “off track”. I have met some fantastic people and enjoyed …
Things have been busy around the Our Hiking Blog household.
We have just returned from Siem Reap, Cambodia and had a great break exploring many areas, in particular some beautiful temples. It is a terrific place to visit, wonderful people, fascinating culture and excellent food. Many things about Cambodia can be very confronting. There is a lot of government corruption or inaction, poverty, poor infrastructure and the ever present undertone of westerners preying on people who are looking for a way to make some money, no matter how… That being said, we really enjoyed our time.
It is great to be back in Australia. The complicated bit has been amid all the travel planning, journey and return to Australia, Frank …
It was “W” kind of week. Wild, wet and windy weather but the mission was planned. Lunches cancelled, families organised and spaces made in our calenders.
Deb and Frank were on a mission to traverse some of the Great Ocean Walk in Victoria and nothing was going to stop us.
We had planned this recky trip for months and finally were able to get away for a couple of days.
Why? Because we live so close to this fantastic coastal walk and have done most of it. It is brilliant. In this case, we thought it was time to produce a guide similar to our Overland Track one. You can’t write a guide without research, and a few photographs, …
The Great Ocean Walk in southern Victoria is a spectacular coastal hiking trip over about 85km. In this post we highlight a terrific long weekend bushwalking trip from Johanna Beach to Princetown. Beautiful scenery, fantastic ocean vistas and hidden campsites make this hiking trip a unique experience.
We were invited to join a project being run by Tripbase.com to share our 3 best kept travel secrets, and being hiking types, we have chosen three special place that you, and the readers at Tripbase may enjoy. They are all in Australia and cover a wide variety of environments across three different States.
A little background:
“The aim of this game is to unite travel bloggers in a joint endeavor – to create an amazing list of top travel recommendations across the globe to share with the entire online travel community.”
“We’ve collected so many incredible secrets that we’ve decided to compile all the posts in a Free Travel Secrets E-book to be shared with the entire online
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