Tag: travel

Planet Kapow 45 : The Santa Cruz Trek

The latest video from our Planet Kapow adventure has arrived!

In this video we take on the Santa Cruz trek in Perú – a 4 day trek that begins a few hours from Huaraz in the town of Cashapampa, and gets you up to about 4750m – a record for all of us at the time.

The trek was an incredible experience and I would really recommend to any who is kind of a little bit fit (really we weren’t) and wants to see the world from up in the Andes.

Lachie as always has a very entertaining read over at Planet Kapow, which is also where you will find the video:
http://www.planetkapow.com/1985

Planet Kapow 39 : Fundacion Viracocha

Well after 9 months or we finally got our hands dirty volunteering at Fundacion Viracocha for 2 weeks. It was a great experience despite some terrible sand fly bites! The area around San Agustin is particularly beautiful so I’d definitely put it in your travels plans when you hit Colombia next!

Read Lachie’s article and check out the video here: http://www.planetkapow.com/1953

Planet Kapow 33 : La Fortuna to Panama City

The end of our central america chapter. In Ep 33 we cut through Costa Rica with blistering speed and hit Panama to explore Bocas del Toro and say our farewells to the wonderful part of the world.

Come see what we got up to and have a read of Lachie’s great writeup:

http://www.planetkapow.com/1862

 

Wow…362 days on the road!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planet Kapow 32 : Masaya to San Juan del Sur

Here it is, just what you have been waiting for.

EPISODE 32.

The episode in which Lachlan & I learn to surf!!!!!

And we also meet some lovely folks – Bec, Max & Rob – and go check out a natural spring and other rad stuff on the island of Ometepe.

Lachie has a great right up which you must head on over and have a read of – and also watch the ep!

planetkapow.com/1842

 

 

And a big congratulations to Bec & Max for their recent engagement!!!

 

Planet Kapow 31 : Granada to Corn Islands

¡Buenos dias amigos!

I’ve had some issues with my website for a few weeks now but it looks to be back to normal and just in time to let you folks know that the latest episode of Planet Kapow is now online.

In this ep we travel from beautiful Granada (Nicaragua) and check out Volcán Mombacho – no lava yet again but beautiful flora and fauna (including a baby deer), then we shoot to Managua (probably the least coolest city on the trip up to this point), then take a day and a half on buses & boats passing through El Rama and Bluefields to eventually arrive on Big Corn Island (a nice little slice of paradise).

As usual head on over to Planet Kapow, read Lachie’s article, and check out all that is episode 31 – “Granada to Corn Islands”:

http://www.planetkapow.com/1775

 

Planet Kapow 29 : Utila to the Bottom of the Sea

Up until we got to Utila (Honduras) I can easily say that I had never had any interests in scuba diving.
Never ever.
I’d tried snorkeling a bunch of times, and couldn’t really see why everyone had been so excited about checking out fish.

Well things have changed.

We spent 3 days at Underwater Vision in Utila doing the PADI Open Water diving certification and had an absolute blast.

Diving is really amazing.

This episode of Planet Kapow is pretty cool – Lachlan went nuts with Dan’s underwater camera, so you can get an idea of what we saw down there.

http://www.planetkapow.com/1736

Planet Kapow 28 : Copan Ruinas to La Ceiba

After a short poke around El Salvador we headed north to Honduras.
All I new about Honduras was from the stories & photos of my mate Alex who years ago had spent months up on the island of Roatan, and they were some great photos and images.
We crossed the border at Ocotepeque and luckily scored a ride in the back of a nice family’s truck. Then a sprint up the main drag of Ocotepeque got us on the last bus north to Santa Rosa de Copan.
The countryside the whole way up was beautiful and seemed a lot more mountainous than what we had seen in El Salvador.
We spent a night in Santa Rosa de Copan and immediately got a good impression from the place.
The next morning we bused it north to La Entrada then back down south to Copan, to check out the ruins, find some hot water, then after a few days we headed north again up to La Ceiba for some white water rafting on the river Cangrejal.

Come read Lachlan’s retelling of our first Honduran adventure, check out some impressive Mayan engravings in Copan and then extreme it down the river.

Yes, this is Planet Kapow episode 28!

http://www.planetkapow.com/1717

Planet Kapow 21 : Tulum to Cancun

The final episode of our Mexican leg on our way to the bottom of South America. Yes, there’s still quite a ways to go! And yes once you feast your eyes on this latest ep you might somehow realise that we are slightly behind on the episodes too!

But, you will really enjoy this one I promise.

We visit Tulum, spend xmas there, and spend a good few minutes talking about our favourite memories of our Mexican experience. Then, we head to Cancun…

As per usual head on over to Planet Kapow, sit back, have a read, and take in all that is our final Mexican PK episode.
Cuba, you’re next!

http://www.planetkapow.com/1641

Planet Kapow 20 : Palenque to Merida

Ruins. Lotsa ruins. But amazing ruins!
THIS. IS. PALENQUE!!!!!!

After the a rather chilled tie in San Cristobal de las Casas we headed north on an overnight bus to Palenque. After Egypt I would say this place is one of the most impressive ancient sites I have seen.
To top off a trip to Palenque we headed north and swam in the blue sinkholes (ceynotes) of Cuzuma. The clarity of the water was amazing, and they fact that these sinkholes exist with swimmable conditions is beyond cool.

Read the adventure, and come experience the awe that is episode 20 of Planet Kapow:
http://www.planetkapow.com/1626