Liz Murray

Surrounded on three sides by precipitous mountain walls and tucked away in a corner of the beautiful Indian Himalayan mountains, Sikkim, an independent Kingdom until 1975 (and where plenty of forward planning is still required to obtain permits from the Govt. to gain entry) was my pathway from Delhi through to Darjeeling and a trek […]

Oman – the land of Sultans and Sinbad, frankincense and peace … so far, it’s been spared the militant Islamic violence that has plagued many of its neighbours, and once out of the Capital Muscat, there’s the impression that you’re the only person around these arid terrains…and for a traveller, this has to be the […]

Just because you’re not actually stepping foot on Mt Everest… Reaching Base Camp and standing at an altitude of 5,364 metres (17.599 feet) above sea level is euphoric, even with severely depleted energy levels and having to gasp for every breath. And it was a bitter-sweet moment, with only my son AJ and I to […]

Few people know about the Simien, let alone travel there, and while the snows of Mt Kilimanjaro may be the true ‘roof of Africa’, the Simien Mountains are certainly a worthy challenger. Yes, there are mountains in Ethiopia… in fact, a lot of Ethiopia is actually mountainous highlands, and a large percentage is also fertile […]

When I head off on one of my solo ‘shut-off from work’ holidays away from the station after a tourist season of hard work, you can forget lazing around on a beach, reading books or sipping cocktails. Following months of planning (and some regular training thrown in for good measure), I like nothing more than […]

My daughter Alex and I were mesmerized by pretty much everything in Morocco …. It is incredibly diverse in almost every sense of the word: geographically, ethnically, racially, linguistically and culturally… a real melting pot of languages, tribes, rich, poor, city slickers and country peasants. It is a country in which you can easily see […]

From Senega, West Africa, I flew to Tanzania, my first aim being to summit Mt Kilimanjaro – the highest free-standing mountain in the world at 19,342 feet (4,956 meters)… and I’ll start with the bottom line – I made it to the top!! The flights from Dakar, Senegal through Johannesburg and Nairobi to Arusha, Tanzania […]

It was at an Outback Tourism conference in Lightning Ridge, of all places, that I met two West African brothers and musicians, now living and working in Australia, and my mind immediately began formulating just how I could incorporate their next workshop in their home village of Senegal into my 2011 African Adventure – a […]

Come Spring each year and it’s time to sell last years whether lambs. What’s a whether you ask? A whether lamb is a castrated male lamb. (and for future reference a ewe is a female sheep, rams are the male stud breeding sheep and a stag is an incorrectly castrated male sheep … who still […]

I guess you could consider this the beginning of my ‘mid life crisis’, I’m sure that’s how my conservative 5th and 6th generation farming neighbours and family looked at it. I didn’t’ and still don’t see it that way. Gary and I were very content and firmly rooted to our plot of earth on the […]