Travel Stories from Around the World

What would traveling be worth without the stories to tell? Road Junky brings you only the most entertaining tales - from getting high in the Himalaya to chance encounters in New York City.

Browse our latest, then read and get inspired. You will not be disappointed! OR click for stories by continent.

Morocco - No Country For Young Women?

by Samantha Cook

On my first full day in Morocco, I briefly thought I was being thrown off a cliff. It was a ...

The Bus Busker in Latin America: All the Road's a Stage

by Simon Bidwell

In Latin America the bus is king, holding the place occupied by the automobile in North America or the train ...

Death Road in Bolivia

by Simon Bidwell

Three more mountain bikes come jolting down the dirt road and skid to a halt beside the eleven other riders ...

Crazy Borders on the Panamericana Highway

by Simon Bidwell

Moral of the story: it’s not the brightest idea to leave yourself two days to travel overland from southern Colombia ...

How Not to Mug a Gringo in Guatemala

by Simon Bidwell

It was really the Cuban’s fault that I ended up at La Recife in the first place. If he ...

Eastern Spirituality for Sale in Vanity Fair

by Tom Thumb

When I was younger I thought that the Western world was lacking in spirituality. I was reading plenty of books ...

Diffidence, Hospitality and Hitchhiking in Sardinia

by Tom Thumb

I arrived in Sardinia on the 1st of May without knowing a soul. I flicked through the guidebooks for a ...

Health Map - Diseases and Destinations

by Roadjunky

In an age where travelers research their destinations by internet rather than just going there, a new tool has come ...

The Seventh Gate by Peter Greave - Travel Book Reviews

by Roadjunky

The Seventh Gate is the autobiography of Peter Greave, born in Calcutta in the time of the Raj and he ...

The Names of Things by Susan Brind Morrow

by Roadjunky

The Names of Things belongs in a category all of its own. At times travel memoirs, at times etymological musings, ...

Bad Mescaline trip in a Peruvian Forest

by Morgan Lloyd

An Andean dwarf forest is a psychedelic place. Weird, twisting Quenuales trees grow on slopes so steep they reach sideways ...

An Indian Princess

by Tom Thumb

I first met Amira at the beach on my first day back in Goa after a 7 year break. It ...

The Traveler Ghetto of Phomn Penh, Cambodia

by Morgan Lloyd

Cambodia was a rush of blood and strange chemicals into an already diseased mind. You simply couldn’t escape the perfect ...

The Digital Divide and the Traveler

by Roadjunky

Once upon a time there was no such thing as the internet. Shocking, but true. Travelers on the road had ...

Lunchtime in Koreatown - the TEFL Teacher's Nightmare

by Thomas Bianco

First day of the new school year. Early March and there was cold in the bones and dread in my ...

Summer Travel - Don't Worry Be Hippy

by Roadjunky

Summertime and the living is easy, the hippies are high and so should you. School is out, the sun’s up ...

Born Into Brothels - The Kids of Calcutta

by Roadjunky

Born into Brothels is an amazing, touching film by Ross Kaufman and Zana Briski that takes us inside the world ...

Caribbean Romance

by Narendra Sethia

I had known Conrad and Felicitas for a number of years, having had a brief affair with their daughter. ...

The Woman Who Knew Too Much - Caribbean Intrigue

by Narendra Sethia

“Many years ago, people used high-tech and filled me up with drugs to try and make me crazy. They ...

Runaway Nazis on Caribbean Yachts

by Narendra Sethia

It has often been asserted that Paraguay is the last haven for that repugnant breed of Germans whose political inclinations ...

A Visit to Gaza - the World's Largest Open-Air Prison Camp

by Erik Johnson

An open-air prison. No one I know has been to the Gaza strip since the Hamas takeover, and I admit ...

Venice. the Fragile and the Extraordinary

by Lucia Byttebier

Venice at twilight. The sea mist which enveloped the city the entire day seems to be disappearing, and the ...

Black Earth City by Charlotte Hobson – Book Reviews

a year in the heart of russia by charlotte hobson

by Roadjunky

Black Earth City is one of the most delightful traveler tales you’re likely to come across. By turns funny, poignant ...

Downloading in Disaster Zones

by Erik Johnson

I was born in the 70’s, the so-called ‘golden age’ of porn, the decade when the term ‘swinging’ first hit ...

Travel Product Review - How Sar Quick Lock

by Roadjunky

Some guy recently sent us the How Sar Quick Lock and a note reading: how’s our Quick Lock?. We ...

Come to Bangladesh

by Erik Johnson

Before I left I heard it said that the tourist slogan for Bangladesh was, Come to Bangladesh– before the tourists ...

Freedom is Sleeping on a Beach - Sardinia, Italy

by Tom Thumb

Like any proud road junky I get on the bus along the southern coast of Sardinia without a guidebook and ...

The Tragic Story of Vindalf the Dog in La Palma

by Tom Thumb

The Rainbow Gathering in the Canary Island of La Palma was the first I’d ever attended where I didn’t freeze ...

Across the Andes Finishes

by Roadjunky

Hikers Gregg Treinish and Deia Scholsberg have completed what must truly have been a life changing epic voyage – 20 ...

What is the What by Dave Eggers - Travel Book Reviews

by Leslie Pearson

The life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Dinka from southern Sudan, is one of constant motion in Dave Eggers’ What ...

Where do Road Junkies Go When the World Ends?

by Roadjunky

Any sane, self-respecting paranoiac knows the end of the world is coming and the paranoid road junky is in a ...

Into the Wild - Movie Reviews

by Roadjunky

Into the Wild is Sean Penn’s adaptation of the tale of Christopher McCandless, a young man who rejects the values ...

Death and Enlightenment in South Italy

by Roadjunky

Last year I had the idea I wanted to live in South Italy, what with the good weather, fine food ...

A Day in the Life of a Road Junky Editor

by Tom Thumb

I stuff some 25 second hand books into my rucksack, throw away the clothes with more than one hole in ...

Ten Reasons Not to Travel in Australia, the World's Most Dangerous Country

by Roadjunky

It’s been said very reasonably that ‘just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean everyone isn’t out to get you’ – well, ...

Recession Travel for Americans

by Roadjunky

The glory days of international travel for Americans who sling dollars around like they’re going out of style are rapidly ...

Saint Patrick's Day - The Drunken Saint of Travelers and Irish

by Roadjunky

Once upon a time the role of the Irish was fairly well defined; they were good for dying by the ...

If You're in Jerusalem Just Ask for Ibrahim

by Tom Thumb

“Just take a taxi to the Mount of Olives and ask for Ibrahim.” my friend had told me on the ...

Banksy - Graffiti Artist and Culture Hero

by Roadjunky

Banksy is one of those artists that remind you why it’s worth going on. Against the merciless waves of media ...

Travel the World With a Spray Can - the Guerilla Artist

by Roadjunky

Ok, so we got a bit excited at seeing all the videos on youtube of the guerilla artist, Banksy, ...

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