Bali, Indonesia – a tropical island paradise with palm-fringed beaches under 3 hours flying time from Singapore. This ultra-popular tourist destination, sometimes called the ‘Island of the Gods’ because of its Hindu culture with its ubiquitous sculptures of deities where […]

The ‘land of the rising sun’, Japan, is almost certainly unlike anywhere else you will have visited. It is a place so safe, and where honesty is so highly valued, that people reserve their restaurant seat when going to the

New Zealand: a country of around 5 million people (but 25 million sheep), isolated in the Pacific Ocean, with its closest neighbour, Australia, over 1500 kilometeres away. Yet this relatively small nation is famous for so many things: its Maori

Australia – the land of the kangaroo, Vegimite, crocodiles, surfers, barbecues and men with corks on their hats. But aside from the stereotypes, ‘the land down under’ offers more variety than almost any other island on Earth (well, it is

Unlike some of its more famous neighbours like Brazil and Argentina, Peru isn’t that well known outside Latin America. The two things that most people know about Peru are that it’s the home of Paddington the Bear and the location