Quirky Guide

Natasha is a freelance travel writer who spends most her time reading about, thinking about or actually going, travelling. The ultimate foodie, this backpacker enjoys eating her way around the world and will just about go anywhere once.

The church where human remains are delicately arranged into crosses, flowers and arches.

Llama trekking might conjure up images of high Andean mountains, but you can also find them much closer to home.

Snow is falling, carols are playing, the log fire’s blazing and the turkey’s in the oven. It seems like a picture perfect Christmas, except one thing: it’s July.

Weave it, eat it, sail it, live on it – the inhabitants of highland Peru certainly know what to do with the mighty reed.

Where crocodile and ostrich grace the menu and the meat comes skewered on a Masai sword.

Just when you thought you’d never hear the screech of ‘Basil!’ again, China hits you with its own take on Fawlty Towers Hotel.

The hardest thing about these lovable armoured animals? Catching them. Yet this is a popular hobby in the Pantanal wetlands.