Inspiring Travel Writing from Yvonne Van Dongen: Page 6 of 6
Articles by Yvonne Van Dongen: Page 6 of 6
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Seeing Condors in Argentina
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Argentina
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Cordoba
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Ascochinga
Walking in the Parque Nacional Quebrada del Condorito in central Argentina I am reminded of New Zealand. Don’t you just hate people that say that? People who refer to NZ in superior tones wherever they go? I once travelled with a woman who found...
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Igazu Waterfall
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Argentina
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Iguazu and the Northeast
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Iguazu
Oh come now. What’s the fuss about really? It’s only water. Doing what water does when it meets 80m drops. Falling down in a furious foment. Big deal. Can it really be worth the effort of going there just to see that? Really?The conventional wisdom...
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Family Follies: Holiday For All Ages In Port Douglas
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Australia
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Queensland
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Port Douglas
The key thing about organising a 10-day family holiday where the participants range in age from 8 to 85 is activity levels. Like Goldilocks, you want ‘not too little’ (for the young) and ‘not too much’ (for the old). You want ‘just right’. For...
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Look and Wonder: A New Type of Gallery in Australia
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Australia
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Western Australia
The information sign warns walkers to take five litres of water, walk in pairs and wear a hat before setting out to view Antony Gormley’s installation Inside Australia on Lake Ballard. And allow at least two hours to get round all the pieces.It’s...
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Biggest, Driest, Best: A Tour of the Southern Australian Outback
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Australia
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South Australia
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Adelaide
Adelaide can tell its own story. Its history is carved into the names, the statues, the parks and the buildings of this genteel, convict-free, grid-patterned city. Said to be full of churches but with twice as many brothels and pubs. Oh and a...
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Marching into Mordor: Trekking the Tongariro Crossing
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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New Zealand
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North Island
The only thing worse than doing the Tongariro Crossing in bad weather is doing it in perfect weather. In bad weather been-there friends and guidebooks warn you to be prepared to throw on duvet-thick layers of clothing in a heartbeat or risk...
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Little Britain: A Tour of Wairarapa, New Zealand
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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New Zealand
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North Island
The fields of the Wairarapa are soft and luminously green fringed with frothy hawthorn, purple-candled polonia and the stalky remnants of dying daffodils. Calves rest in pools of sunshine while in the distance the hills gently dip and roll. A church...
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Delicious – A Yoga Retreat in the Coromandel
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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New Zealand
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North Island
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Coromandel
As I recline on the ground my back supported by two bolsters, my legs wrapped in place by a rolled-up blanket, my torso covered by another blanket, over my eyes a folded hand towel, I can only marvel that this is not what I had expected at all. No...
Reviews by Yvonne Van Dongen: Page 6 of 6
Banyan Tree Bangkok | Yvonne Van DongenThrow 4 million US dollars at a luxury hotel simply for refurbishment and you can expect the result to be a fairly lavish form of hyper-reality. A ginger and cucumber body cleanser, flickering candles, Thai prawn curry, rose petals in the bath and...
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