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To inspire your 2018, we’ve asked 6 Australian families who ‘prioritise travelling’ to tell us how and why they travel with kids! Evie & Emmie from Mumpack Travel is our first family: Tell us a bit about your family. Our family is me, Evie and my eight year old daughter Emmie. We’ve been traveling together since February 2016 and spent 18 months in Asia.
Where you are right now?
If you could inspire other family to travel what would you say?
Sydney. We both get to learn more about the world around us and have incredible F MA experiences together like camping on the EILI S Great Wall of China, seeing wild elephants in SriGAM ZA Nothing compares with sharing something Lanka and Borneo or ziplining over waterfalls ENI for the first time with your kids. Our recent in Cambodia. memories are not about rushing around
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We’ve just arrived in Unawatuna in Sri Lanka on our very first family tour. We have 22 people We rely on savings and use the rent we get from with us - families from around the world UOY our home. I also sporadically make a little bit of R T I and we are taking them on an amazing money from social media. EKC13 day adventure through one of ourTfavourite countries.
Where have you traveled to as a family?
Where is your family holiday and why?
We have an old caravan down the south coast of NSW and we love spending time there when Emmie and I have travelled quite a bit in Asia we are not on the road. We also love China, - to China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka - but really anywhere Hong Kong, Singapore, the Maldives, Malaysia, where we are together and exploring is good E us. Indonesia, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. We lived in ZINfor A G Vietnam for about four months and Emmie went A SM to international school there. We’ve ILIEalso been M A F Fiji, Barbados to France, England, Germany, and America. And we’ve spent a lot of time in Disneylands around the world too. Definitely a bit of patience but mostly I think it’s important to be flexible and take opportunities as they come. Relax and have fun with your kids and don’t worry about sticking to a timetable or For us its the best way to spend time together checking boxes. Sometimes magic comes when and it’s also the most affordable! We can travel you change plans or least expect it. in Asia for much less than it costs to live in
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at home trying to cram everything in, but are amazing experiences like seeing pygmy elephants on the Kinabatangan river at sunrise in Borneo, sharing a meal with a local family in Cambodia and riding the blue train through tea TRAVEL 1 plantations SERIES in Sri Lanka. Family travel isn’t as difficult as people may think - it will be the best thing you’ve ever done. FAMILIES MAGAZINE
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I’ve just started taking family trips to Sri Lanka with Carlie from Halpe Holidays and we’d love families to join us. They’re fabulous affordable adventures where we do all the work and you get to relax and enjoy time with your fam. Our next trips are in April and you can find more information at www.mumpacktravel.com Evie Farrell, www.mumpacktravel.com www.instagram.com/mumpacktravel www.facebook.com/mumpacktravel