Having travelled around S.E. Asia for most part of the last 19 years I was recently reminded of the most illogical travel i have ever encountered. I refer to Laos. That wonderfully friendly land locked country which i have visited many times. Always a joy …
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How Baktrax Travel Came into Being and Evolved: The Middle Years – Part 2
From around 1990 I continued long hours and big wages delivering air freight around Armadale, Malvern, Prahran, Windsor and East Malvern doing around 120 deliveries or pick ups daily. This meant running for almost 12 hours a day followed by a five K run around …
8 of the Most Scenic Destinations in South East Asia
8 OF THE MOST SCENIC DESTINATIONS IN S. E. ASIA. There is rarely a dull moment for visitors to the region especially when you bus around with the locals . Whether it be the totally unlawful way vehicles are driven to witnessing the poverty of tiny villages as you pass …
Into Africa, 93
Let the real travel begin. In 19993 my workmate Vince who had been to all the main continents apart from Africa was thinking about it for his next trip. So as i hadn’t been to any of them and after seeing a kids show one …
Overseas for the first time. New Zealand.
Now 1992 and all i thought about apart from work and the punt was travelling. So in mid 92 i booked a 10 day bus tour of New Zealand. My well travelled friends scoffed as they suggested it would be like going to Adelaide. Yes, the …
Australia first up.
My first big trip was in Australia as i decided to drive from Melbourne to Cairns and back during my three weeks holidays in 1991. A week to get there via outback New South Wales before a week in Cairns and a week back along …
How Baktrax travel came into being and evolved: The early years. Part 1.
Hi, my name is Alan C. Foster and this the incredible story of how travel can turn your life in unknown directions through totally unpredictable and spontaneous events. No one could have possibly foretold that when i left Melbourne bus station with Europe in mind …
Spontaneous Travel Tales & Other Things
Hi, my name is Alan C. Foster and I am currently the owner of Baktrax; Budget small group tours in S. E. Asia. www.baktrax.com. I am an ex-pat Aussie who has spent most of the last fifteen years in S.E. Asia. During my travels over that …