Luxury Camping

Typical Brit- as soon as the sun comes to England, I go to France. Don't know much about the area tho I'm sure we'll find something cultural to do other than the beach and beer. Watch this space!!

Hey guys!! Tonight I am staying in luxury camping.. in a dorm room! We get 2 nights here at Swokopmund which is on the Indian Ocean, so warm water.. and on the other side we have just come from the Namib Desert. Not much time left and the keyboard ...

... heritage hotel in this region.  He is also the owner of the land surounding the lake where we stayed and is developing the camping resort..  Great idea if he can get people to do one night in each - fantastic experience as the castle was out of ...

... actually private and this is the area in which we stayed.  Patagonia Camp, our lodging for a week is an ecologically sensitive luxury camp with yurts, hiking guides and good food.  To reach the park, we flew from Puerto Montt to Punta Arenas ...

... was amazing, Had soup for starters, then rice and chicken stuff for main and finally dessert was jelly which tasted like mulled wine. So full after it and we even had a massive tent to eat our 3 course meal under. Camping doesn´t get better than this! ...

September 15 A wonderful day on a luxury day cruise on the Adriatic from Trogir to Split. Well, for us it was luxury, and, you know, I would not trade our little trip for the same trip on one of those huge yachts! The first stage was a little put-put ...

... with Pearl shells. We were unable to take the caravan on the dirt road so we stayed in a log cabin. They also had luxury safari tents (taken down for the cyclone season), and humpies on the beach (not being used because of the weather forcast). They ...

... have 2 sheets to cover myself. The 3rd one we had Jay had thrown away a few day ago much to my annoyance. Jay has the luxury of a comfy sleeping bag and a thick layer of clothes as a matress. My car is also on a slope so getting some sleep is difficult. ...

... . Here also you get a good view of where the Tasman sea and Pacific Ocean meet. We were camped at a DOC (department of conservation) camping ground which had running water, including a very cold shower! We were so caked in sand that it felt like the best ...

... and try our luck there. But we thought a bit of down-time was in order first, so we spent the next three days camping in Santa Rosa National Park - a tropical dry forest environment. Away from all the fast-paced developments surrounding us, we enjoyed the ...

... 5 months to just 4 bags and a few accessories that would go on the roof rack as the main body of the vehicle contained all the camping gear, cooking gear, fridge and food as well as the five of us. I raced about town doing what I do well, buying boys ...

... was in need of a good shampoo to his hair and beard and a good scrub on his manky feet. There were benefits to bush camping. Firstly, for me I began to notice the workout I was giving my quad muscles as I would have to squat behind a tree, concentrating ...

... first cold beer of the weekend. I was all for cracking the first tinny on arrival, but the cautionary tale of a previous camping trip was warning enough. Legend has it that one happy camper hit the cooler on arrival and didn't stop. Several hours ...

... the year and so we managed to score some great accommodation in a motel style lodging for only 10 Euro per night. Not much to report here, most our time was spent enjoying the relative luxury of our surroundings, although I enjoyed the camping much ...

... minute!  Not surprisingly, we collapsed "out" as soon as our heads rested back on the haggard but comfy camping pillows we brought along for the trip.  When we awoke we found ourselves in paradise and the first leg of our great ...

... many sleepness nights and ended up buying a much bigger and better tent, it felt like we were living in luxury! One of the more memorable moments camping was fearing for our lives after seeing a sign that there had been recent sightings of a Mountain ...

... my surprise to find that the tents had..... showers! And sit-down loos! And mattresses! And And And!!!!!! My jaw dropped! Hurray - I love Camping! The run (okay... in my case - fairly swift walk!) took us around the edge of the Crater, so we could look ...

... to take a step away from modern conveniences and relax into nature. 'How's the serenity?' springs to mind.  We were camping (and i humour myself when I say 'camping') in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.  The delta is described as the jewel of ...

... fresh water rock pools that can be found all over the place (we were told they were croc free). It was a different camping experience from the Lares trail in Peru, as we had to set up our own tent (!!), help out with cooking and cleaning ...

... lots of people still try to make a living out of it.   So that was our weekend away. Lookin forward to many more camping trips over the weekends coming up to Christmas, have to do the X-mas shopping this weekend though so we'll be in Melbourne ...

So, camping, hostels, beach bungalow with outside bathroom including resident mozzies, yes....time for some luxury. Manda and Anna (after personally checking out all the 5 star hotels in the area) book themselves into the swishest, poshest 5 star hotel in ...