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What magic we humans conjure up every day. Yes, we make and eat food, go to big termite mounds in…
Nowadays King Island is a windy and lush haven of tranquillity, away from the city crowds and filled with beautiful…
It’s hard to find an art form that conquers the hearts and divides the opinions of millions around the globe…
Pristine white powdery sand between your toes, blue skies, a world-class surf break off shore, miles of national park with…
Every kid nowadays has a camera. In fact, most humans carry around cameras in their jacket pockets, ready to flip…
If you’ve ever ventured a short drive from Surfer’s Paradise’s bright lights and city high-rises, you’ll find yourself on what…
We’ve had a lot of lucky run-ins with whales whilst filming projects on the East Coast recently. It’s the middle…
You’ve just parked up, the sun sparkling through the gently waving palm leaves above. You’re so excited of what lies…
Imagine yourself surrounded by shimmering blue. Hovering in space, holding onto a rope made out of what looks like red…
Australia has a reputation of being a continent of red dusty desert, fringed by tropical rainforest and stunning white sand…
Australia. Awesome place to go backpacking. Kangaroos. Kind of cut off. Beer, BBQs, outback and beaches. Surf bums and cowboys…
You may know that Rat & Dragon was founded on two professionals knocking their heads together above a giant wok…
There are certain image collections that keep on popping up on facebook. “20 scary pictures from the past”, “OMG I…
We just happened to look up from our editing machines as the lightning struck full pelt across the horizon. Ominous…
We get it. You’ve seen it all already. On those posters, fliers, brochures, facebook ads and friends’ profile pics: the…
Over the Christmas break, after enjoying the big city lights of Melbourne, a group of us headed to Northern Queensland…
That goat scene will never leave your memory. What had the goat done to deserve this anyway? But it could…
We’ve been researching a lot about skydivers recently. Last September, our project for Skydive Australia started to open up a…
Did you know that you can actually see Mount Doom from Hobbiton? Mount Ngauruhoe (the volcano’s non-hollywood name) was unfortunately…
In 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin strapped a large bedsheet to a basket with a balloon to elevate it to the desired…
If you haven’t seen Mad Max Fury road, drop what you’re doing and check out one of the most glorious…
You’ve woken early. It’s 6am on a random Wednesday morning and you’re wondering: “What shall I do with…
You don’t quite know what’s hit you. A previously totally unimaginable sensation is chasing through your body and you have…
You know sometimes someone tells you about this amazing place they went where they escaped the stresses of modern life…
We wonder if the humble whale shark knows he’s the pinnacle of nature-related facebook selfies. Humans get a kick out…
Guest blog post by the wonderful Tracy Brown. Chased by uniformed, badge wearing officers by torchlight… down dark alleys…
You may have noticed we’ve just been to Western Australia. Seen STA Travel’s new film? Total eye candy. Been on…
You can build a tennis court just about anywhere on the planet. When you finished reading this, you could probably…
Kindergarten, Primary School, pass the tests and get into a good Grammer School. Study hard. Don’t be too much of…
Don’t be a pussy. You might be really missing out, you know. As we’ve journeyed across the world and delved…
The last two months have been the first in 2 years of Rat & Dragon we’ve spent in one place.…
6:30 pm. The hostel kitchen is teaming with 18-34 year olds in city print singlets and elephant pants. You’ve scored…
Warning - the following contains information about a place so beautiful that the prose that follows sometimes collapses into poetry.…
So you’ve just arrived on the other side of the earth. Your eyeballs are almost hanging out of your head,…
The first glimpse of our newest destination lay ahead of us, just a small sheet of plastic window between our…
We’re not usually one to dabble with mysticism, the occult or superstition. We have had to deal with quite a…
Myanmar. The crown jewel of the adventurous South East Asian backpacker. A hard-to-reach country, long shut off to independent travel…
You probably don’t remember this now, but there once was a very first time that you ever laid eyes on…
It’s Nottingham, 2007, and our Rat’s at uni. One of her much cooler housemates’ boyfriends is banging on about some…
Thailand is diverse, yes, and distinctly Thai all over – green curry and lemongrass, laid-back beach boys and lady boys…
We admit it. We’ve been in hiding. A whole month and a half without a word, even a simple little…
Queensland. Some call it the Texas of Australia. Some call it ‘the place so humid, no one actually lives there’.…
11 months in the making, Tag has been our most ambitious project to date. Now spearheading STA Travel’s global Blue…
We’re staying in a tiny Lao village among the pigs and chickens and water buffalo on the Eastern bank of…
Returning wide-eyed and open mouthed from our 3 day mind-warp to the Field of Pots, (sorry, Plane of Jars), the…
Act 1. Overnight ‘sleeper’ bus from Hanoi to Vientiane, March 2014. Amongst other fellow travelers sharing our insomnia, we get…
The mother of water. The cocoa coloured wonder. The Mighty Mekong. Call it what you like, this river rich in…
6 months ago we were in a rice field shouting “Nam. You weren’t there! You didn’t know what it was…
World Travel Market came around way faster than we’d anticipated. As a newly formed company this was our first year…
40,000km across the face of this earth. Back in the day, it was people like Chris Columbus, Capn’ Cook and…
“I must get to the other side. This is my quest, he waits for me”… a bearded armadillo stuck to…
It wasn’t the off-his-face, chanting, gesticulating, bare-chested backpacker in the middle of the road holding up central Darwin traffic and…
CCRAAAASHHHHHHHHH, SLAM, Bang bang bang bang… “Oh crap, I think I left one of the draws open”. We stop at…
Part 2: Cairns – Sydney (see also Part 1: Darwin – Cairns) The East Coast. Australia’s string of…
Part 1: Darwin - Cairns 40000km into the Epic Journey and we are looking at our last of 19…
The Canadians have a beaver. Costa Rica has a clay-coloured thrush. The Swiss have a cow and Australia, well, Australia…
OMG and WTF… you haven’t heard from us in a while? That’s cause we accidentally took a wrong turning coming…
High on the walls above our heads, Chairman Mao (Tse Tung) glares dictatorially across the room at Uncle Ho (Chi…
Hanging off one of the more distant of Indonesia’s haphazardly strewn eastern islands, you can find a little baby of…
Hellooooo. Helloooooooooooo....... *pat on the cheek* Hellooooo? Ah, hello! How are you feeling today? Good? Yes, of course you're feeling…
We cannot recommend overland travel enough. Read through our last 6 months of blog posts and you’ll see why. Overland…
Ever wanted a real filmmaking adventure? Exotic tropical travel, danger, beauty and glory? Well this could be your next project,…
How’s it going? Everything smelling as it should? Nice to sniff your behind, run around the block and get to…
“It’s gonna be outrageous!” says Nat, the founder of Mojo Surf, “It’s a three-week Bali & Beyond surf tour through…
Many hate him. His armour is so hard and sharp and that he easily punctures and tears through flesh. He…
Young, fresh, radical and more often than not totally illegal, street art has taken our hearts and minds by storm.…
I am just about to do something illegal. I’m about to cross an international border with what I am told…
You’ve just arrived in a brand new part of the world and it’s all incredibly exciting. You’ve remembered to get…
As night falls, the shadows are shredded by a motorbike’s headlights shining through a gate whilst a cat peeps out…
You’re gonna die. Sorry to break it to you. It’s nothing personal, just the nature of life. We’re all…
As you may have gathered whilst reading our ramblings along this particular trip, we have been travelling before. And to…
The Egyptians did it. The Mayans did it. The Tibetans did it. Even the Koreans and German Housewives do it,…
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your Oyster, or so they say. The Thai capital is famously home to…
It’s any given Tuesday and your alarm sounds at 6am. You hate it. You wonder whether you really need to…
You are about to step into any 5 year old’s dream of dreams. Welcome to one of the craziest national…
We know you have missed us terribly. Like being forced to wait an entire week for your next fix of…
We’re up for big film challenges, so jumped at the chance when we were asked to film an elephant ride…
1, 2, 3 – Good MOoooorniiiing, Viet-naaaaam! So many times did we hear this on our latest project, so many…
Vladivostok -> Korea -> Japan -> China We ran out of land. We took trains, busses and cars…
“I Kina spiser de hunde”, title of the 1999 Danish action comedy says it all. In China, they do really,…
Joy, our young Beijing local, is no professional presenter, but stick her in front of a camera, she took to…
We're half way there! Warning! Mathematicians, geophysicists and obsessive statistics fanatics, look away now. Avert your eyes from…
Monkeys are pretty cool at the best of times, whilst being admittedly somewhat scary and crazy mini humans, their comedic…
Like a medieval battle re-enacted every five minutes, at a green signal, thousands of people charge at each other from…
Ready, set, GO! If you ever thought the cost of a Tokyo experience would pump up your blood pressure,…
We’ve lost count of our visits to this unbelievable city. Everything we had heard about the place jabbed at our…
Packing clothes for somewhere you’ve never been before is always a bit of a tricky endeavour, especially if you’re heading…
The Trans-Siberian: Moscow -> Vladivostok You’re plugged in. If you’re reading this, you’re online right now, so you’ve already…
The Rat & Dragon crew has now clocked up around 500 hours travelling and filming both the Trans-Siberian and the…
Mad and mighty Moscow looms out at you from the heavy Russian sky as you soak it up from street…
London -> St Petersburg The first stage of our Epic London to Sydney overland journey is behind us. …
Rat & Dragon jumped on a skateboard, a tandem bike and a snow tube to explore, thanks to a bunch…
33,520 km to discover what sex, fairytales, eating and travel all have in common. We all know the end…
Setting off onto our latest epic project, the Rat & Dragon team has over the last few weeks become something…
“Everyday’s a school day” so they say. Well we’d really like a day off occasionally, but when you’re constantly tasked…
Rat & Dragon set out to capture 24 hours to squeeze into 90 seconds of distilled London spirit, but with…
We know the name’s a little quirky. ‘Why Rat & Dragon?’ is about the second most asked question as…
Pristine white powdery sand between your toes, blue skies, a world-class surf break off shore, miles of national park with…
If you’ve ever ventured a short drive from Surfer’s Paradise’s bright lights and city high-rises, you’ll find yourself on what…
You’ve just parked up, the sun sparkling through the gently waving palm leaves above. You’re so excited of what lies…
Imagine yourself surrounded by shimmering blue. Hovering in space, holding onto a rope made out of what looks like red…
Did you know that you can actually see Mount Doom from Hobbiton? Mount Ngauruhoe (the volcano’s non-hollywood name) was unfortunately…
If you haven’t seen Mad Max Fury road, drop what you’re doing and check out one of the most glorious…
You’ve woken early. It’s 6am on a random Wednesday morning and you’re wondering: “What shall I do with…
You don’t quite know what’s hit you. A previously totally unimaginable sensation is chasing through your body and you have…
You know sometimes someone tells you about this amazing place they went where they escaped the stresses of modern life…
You may have noticed we’ve just been to Western Australia. Seen STA Travel’s new film? Total eye candy. Been on…
Warning - the following contains information about a place so beautiful that the prose that follows sometimes collapses into poetry.…
Myanmar. The crown jewel of the adventurous South East Asian backpacker. A hard-to-reach country, long shut off to independent travel…
Thailand is diverse, yes, and distinctly Thai all over – green curry and lemongrass, laid-back beach boys and lady boys…
We admit it. We’ve been in hiding. A whole month and a half without a word, even a simple little…
11 months in the making, Tag has been our most ambitious project to date. Now spearheading STA Travel’s global Blue…
Returning wide-eyed and open mouthed from our 3 day mind-warp to the Field of Pots, (sorry, Plane of Jars), the…
The mother of water. The cocoa coloured wonder. The Mighty Mekong. Call it what you like, this river rich in…
6 months ago we were in a rice field shouting “Nam. You weren’t there! You didn’t know what it was…
Part 2: Cairns – Sydney (see also Part 1: Darwin – Cairns) The East Coast. Australia’s string of…
Part 1: Darwin - Cairns 40000km into the Epic Journey and we are looking at our last of 19…
OMG and WTF… you haven’t heard from us in a while? That’s cause we accidentally took a wrong turning coming…
“It’s gonna be outrageous!” says Nat, the founder of Mojo Surf, “It’s a three-week Bali & Beyond surf tour through…
As night falls, the shadows are shredded by a motorbike’s headlights shining through a gate whilst a cat peeps out…
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your Oyster, or so they say. The Thai capital is famously home to…
It’s any given Tuesday and your alarm sounds at 6am. You hate it. You wonder whether you really need to…
We know you have missed us terribly. Like being forced to wait an entire week for your next fix of…
1, 2, 3 – Good MOoooorniiiing, Viet-naaaaam! So many times did we hear this on our latest project, so many…
Joy, our young Beijing local, is no professional presenter, but stick her in front of a camera, she took to…
Ready, set, GO! If you ever thought the cost of a Tokyo experience would pump up your blood pressure,…
Mad and mighty Moscow looms out at you from the heavy Russian sky as you soak it up from street…
Rat & Dragon jumped on a skateboard, a tandem bike and a snow tube to explore, thanks to a bunch…
33,520 km to discover what sex, fairytales, eating and travel all have in common. We all know the end…
What magic we humans conjure up every day. Yes, we make and eat food, go to big termite mounds in…
It’s hard to find an art form that conquers the hearts and divides the opinions of millions around the globe…
Australia has a reputation of being a continent of red dusty desert, fringed by tropical rainforest and stunning white sand…
Australia. Awesome place to go backpacking. Kangaroos. Kind of cut off. Beer, BBQs, outback and beaches. Surf bums and cowboys…
You may know that Rat & Dragon was founded on two professionals knocking their heads together above a giant wok…
There are certain image collections that keep on popping up on facebook. “20 scary pictures from the past”, “OMG I…
We get it. You’ve seen it all already. On those posters, fliers, brochures, facebook ads and friends’ profile pics: the…
Over the Christmas break, after enjoying the big city lights of Melbourne, a group of us headed to Northern Queensland…
Guest blog post by the wonderful Tracy Brown. Chased by uniformed, badge wearing officers by torchlight… down dark alleys…
The last two months have been the first in 2 years of Rat & Dragon we’ve spent in one place.…
We’re not usually one to dabble with mysticism, the occult or superstition. We have had to deal with quite a…
It’s Nottingham, 2007, and our Rat’s at uni. One of her much cooler housemates’ boyfriends is banging on about some…
We’re staying in a tiny Lao village among the pigs and chickens and water buffalo on the Eastern bank of…
Act 1. Overnight ‘sleeper’ bus from Hanoi to Vientiane, March 2014. Amongst other fellow travelers sharing our insomnia, we get…
World Travel Market came around way faster than we’d anticipated. As a newly formed company this was our first year…
40,000km across the face of this earth. Back in the day, it was people like Chris Columbus, Capn’ Cook and…
It wasn’t the off-his-face, chanting, gesticulating, bare-chested backpacker in the middle of the road holding up central Darwin traffic and…
The Canadians have a beaver. Costa Rica has a clay-coloured thrush. The Swiss have a cow and Australia, well, Australia…
High on the walls above our heads, Chairman Mao (Tse Tung) glares dictatorially across the room at Uncle Ho (Chi…
How’s it going? Everything smelling as it should? Nice to sniff your behind, run around the block and get to…
Young, fresh, radical and more often than not totally illegal, street art has taken our hearts and minds by storm.…
As you may have gathered whilst reading our ramblings along this particular trip, we have been travelling before. And to…
Vladivostok -> Korea -> Japan -> China We ran out of land. We took trains, busses and cars…
We're half way there! Warning! Mathematicians, geophysicists and obsessive statistics fanatics, look away now. Avert your eyes from…
We’ve lost count of our visits to this unbelievable city. Everything we had heard about the place jabbed at our…
The Trans-Siberian: Moscow -> Vladivostok You’re plugged in. If you’re reading this, you’re online right now, so you’ve already…
London -> St Petersburg The first stage of our Epic London to Sydney overland journey is behind us. …
Nowadays King Island is a windy and lush haven of tranquillity, away from the city crowds and filled with beautiful…
Every kid nowadays has a camera. In fact, most humans carry around cameras in their jacket pockets, ready to flip…
We’ve had a lot of lucky run-ins with whales whilst filming projects on the East Coast recently. It’s the middle…
We just happened to look up from our editing machines as the lightning struck full pelt across the horizon. Ominous…
That goat scene will never leave your memory. What had the goat done to deserve this anyway? But it could…
We’ve been researching a lot about skydivers recently. Last September, our project for Skydive Australia started to open up a…
In 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin strapped a large bedsheet to a basket with a balloon to elevate it to the desired…
We wonder if the humble whale shark knows he’s the pinnacle of nature-related facebook selfies. Humans get a kick out…
You can build a tennis court just about anywhere on the planet. When you finished reading this, you could probably…
Kindergarten, Primary School, pass the tests and get into a good Grammer School. Study hard. Don’t be too much of…
Don’t be a pussy. You might be really missing out, you know. As we’ve journeyed across the world and delved…
6:30 pm. The hostel kitchen is teaming with 18-34 year olds in city print singlets and elephant pants. You’ve scored…
So you’ve just arrived on the other side of the earth. Your eyeballs are almost hanging out of your head,…
The first glimpse of our newest destination lay ahead of us, just a small sheet of plastic window between our…
You probably don’t remember this now, but there once was a very first time that you ever laid eyes on…
Queensland. Some call it the Texas of Australia. Some call it ‘the place so humid, no one actually lives there’.…
“I must get to the other side. This is my quest, he waits for me”… a bearded armadillo stuck to…
CCRAAAASHHHHHHHHH, SLAM, Bang bang bang bang… “Oh crap, I think I left one of the draws open”. We stop at…
Hanging off one of the more distant of Indonesia’s haphazardly strewn eastern islands, you can find a little baby of…
Hellooooo. Helloooooooooooo....... *pat on the cheek* Hellooooo? Ah, hello! How are you feeling today? Good? Yes, of course you're feeling…
We cannot recommend overland travel enough. Read through our last 6 months of blog posts and you’ll see why. Overland…
Ever wanted a real filmmaking adventure? Exotic tropical travel, danger, beauty and glory? Well this could be your next project,…
Many hate him. His armour is so hard and sharp and that he easily punctures and tears through flesh. He…
I am just about to do something illegal. I’m about to cross an international border with what I am told…
You’ve just arrived in a brand new part of the world and it’s all incredibly exciting. You’ve remembered to get…
You’re gonna die. Sorry to break it to you. It’s nothing personal, just the nature of life. We’re all…
The Egyptians did it. The Mayans did it. The Tibetans did it. Even the Koreans and German Housewives do it,…
You are about to step into any 5 year old’s dream of dreams. Welcome to one of the craziest national…
We’re up for big film challenges, so jumped at the chance when we were asked to film an elephant ride…
“I Kina spiser de hunde”, title of the 1999 Danish action comedy says it all. In China, they do really,…
Monkeys are pretty cool at the best of times, whilst being admittedly somewhat scary and crazy mini humans, their comedic…
Like a medieval battle re-enacted every five minutes, at a green signal, thousands of people charge at each other from…
Packing clothes for somewhere you’ve never been before is always a bit of a tricky endeavour, especially if you’re heading…
The Rat & Dragon crew has now clocked up around 500 hours travelling and filming both the Trans-Siberian and the…
Setting off onto our latest epic project, the Rat & Dragon team has over the last few weeks become something…
“Everyday’s a school day” so they say. Well we’d really like a day off occasionally, but when you’re constantly tasked…
Rat & Dragon set out to capture 24 hours to squeeze into 90 seconds of distilled London spirit, but with…
We know the name’s a little quirky. ‘Why Rat & Dragon?’ is about the second most asked question as…