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Category Archive: Destinations

Our First Bush Camping Experience

Don’t Ever Look Back is built around the theme of affordable luxury and although we’re always looking for ways to save money on our travels, we’re not budget travelers. We travel with suitcases over backpacks. We prefer to stay in […]

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11 Facts About Saltwater Crocodiles

We’ve been writing about our encounters with Northern Territory’s Saltwater Crocodiles extensively recently from Darwin’s Crocosaurus Cove to our trip down croc-infested waters on a Yellow Water Cruise. This infographic from @AusOutbackNT caught our eye yesterday and we found some of […]

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The Wildlife and Saltwater Crocodiles of Kakadu National Park

The number one thing on my Kakadu to-do list was to see a saltwater crocodile in the wild, the largest living reptiles in the world. Considering the wild croc population in the Northern Territory is now at an almost one-to-one […]

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Soweto By Bike

I only had the one morning in Johannesburg and was delighted that my day would begin at Lebo’s Soweto Backpackers, home of Soweto Bicycle Tours.

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5 Highlights From Darwin’s Crocosaurus Cove

With a couple of hours to spare in Darwin, we knew exactly what we wanted to do and that was to visit Crocosaurus Cove. Croc Cove is known as “Darwin’s Ultimate Urban Wildlife Experience” and gives visitors an up-close and […]

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Video: 2013 Jabiru Mahbilil Festival

Our recent visit to the Northern Territory coincided with the annual Jabiru Mahbilil Festival, a one-day celebration of cultural diversity and community. We only spent a little bit of time there during the day but there were plenty of family […]

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Photo Essay: Oman’s Grand Mosque

Although I’ve visited Malaysia many times before and even walked past the As Syakirin Mosque in Kuala Lumpur’s City Centre, I’ve never actually been inside a mosque. So when we were taken to the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, the […]

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Great White Shark Cage Diving In Gansbaai

Duuun dun. Duuun dun. The theme from Jaws is stuck on constant rotation in my head as I step on board Slashfin, a purpose-built boat made for shark cage diving. Here I am in Gansbaai in the Western Cape of South […]

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