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.
10 Ways to Assimilate and Integrate with a Foreign Culture
Any Road Junky who doesn’t want to be a culture vulture needs to get out of their mindset and really get to grips with the culture they’re traveling in. So ...
101 World Culture Shocks
World culture becomes increasingly homogenized with each passing year but there’s still enough diverse instances to prove that ancient anthropological truth best summarized by Obelix: these humans are crazy. ...
Road Junky Letters - More on Drink and Drugs in the Phillipines
And we thought our readers were all innocent Gap Year kids ‘doing’ Asia.
Props to the great site man.
I’d just like to say, that being from the Philippines, marijuana is definitely ...
The Clay Pot Fridge is a Boon for the Third World and Travelers in the Sticks
Anyone who’s spent time traveling in the third world knows that one of the biggest obstacles to getting anything done are the power cuts. Everything gets plunged into darkness, your ...
Travel Product Review - Schick Quattro Titanium Trimmer
Vogelsang Mountain High Life
Somewhere high in the mountains under a curtain of doom, I embarked on a journey of mythological proportions. This journey would prove to be a test of ...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt – Travel Book Reviews
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a portrait of Savannah, an isolated town in Georgia where John Berendt, a journalist from New York found himself by chance ...
"Jakarta Should be on Worst 10 Ciites List"
When we’re too lazy to write any original content we let our readers do it for us…
Dear editor,
I enjoyed your article on the worst cities in the world a ...
China Tortures Tai Chi Rebels - the Falun Gong Story
Most violent regimes concentrate their persecution against democratic protests, dissident students or armed rebels. Leave it to China to bring a surreal edge to institutional brutality and torture, however. The ...
A Year Teaching English in China
This summer many new graduates will head off to teach English in China, attracted by the 2008 Olympics buzz. Last year, eager for distraction during caffeine-fueled revision, I was one ...
"China Blue", Sweatshops and Jeans - World Film
China Blue is an outstanding and tragic documentary that will make you never want to wear a pair of jeans again.
Micha Peled’s film was shot secretly inside a Chinese ...
Singapore isn't a Police State, Apparently...
Some people hate Road Junky and we just love to hear from them. Take this reader who thinks we were mean to Singapore when we included it in our
Morocco - No Country For Young Women?
On my first full day in Morocco, I briefly thought I was being thrown off a cliff. It was a most unfortunate, and terrifying, misunderstanding: My ´guide` thought it would ...
The Bus Busker in Latin America: All the Road's a Stage
In Latin America the bus is king, holding the place occupied by the automobile in North America or the train in Europe. More than the dominant form of transport, it’s ...
Death Road in Bolivia
Three more mountain bikes come jolting down the dirt road and skid to a halt beside the eleven other riders who have already stashed their cycles by the roadside. Filthy ...
Crazy Borders on the Panamericana Highway
Moral of the story: it’s not the brightest idea to leave yourself two days to travel overland from southern Colombia to northern Peru. Departing from the Colombian city of Popayán, ...
How Not to Mug a Gringo in Guatemala
It was really the Cuban’s fault that I ended up at La Recife in the first place. If he hadn’t come by, I would have walked quietly home and ...
Eastern Spirituality for Sale in Vanity Fair
When I was younger I thought that the Western world was lacking in spirituality. I was reading plenty of books about the East at the time and deduced that our ...
Diffidence, Hospitality and Hitchhiking in Sardinia
I arrived in Sardinia on the 1st of May without knowing a soul. I flicked through the guidebooks for a hour in the airport and, remembering none of what I ...
Health Map - Diseases and Destinations
In an age where travelers research their destinations by internet rather than just going there, a new tool has come along to help us worry about what terrible diseases we’ll ...
The Seventh Gate by Peter Greave - Travel Book Reviews
The Seventh Gate is the autobiography of Peter Greave, born in Calcutta in the time of the Raj and he tells his tragic tale with wit and grace that make ...
The Names of Things by Susan Brind Morrow
The Names of Things belongs in a category all of its own. At times travel memoirs, at times etymological musings, the personal and the academic blend in a unique story ...
Bad Mescaline trip in a Peruvian Forest
An Andean dwarf forest is a psychedelic place. Weird, twisting Quenuales trees grow on slopes so steep they reach sideways toward the sun. Their red, papery bark glows beautifully in ...
The Traveler Ghetto of Phomn Penh, Cambodia
Cambodia was a rush of blood and strange chemicals into an already diseased mind. You simply couldn’t escape the perfect hedonism of the place. For $30 you could rent heavy ...
The Digital Divide and the Traveler
Once upon a time there was no such thing as the internet. Shocking, but true. Travelers on the road had to go to the nearest post office to collect their ...
Lunchtime in Koreatown - the TEFL Teacher's Nightmare
First day of the new school year. Early March and there was cold in the bones and dread in my heart. The memory of Thailand only one week old as ...
Summer Travel - Don't Worry Be Hippy
Summertime and the living is easy, the hippies are high and so should you. School is out, the sun’s up and the smart traveler knows it’s time to leave Babylon ...
Born Into Brothels - The Kids of Calcutta
Born into Brothels is an amazing, touching film by Ross Kaufman and Zana Briski that takes us inside the world of the red light district in Calcutta, India and of ...
Caribbean Romance
I had known Conrad and Felicitas for a number of years, having had a brief affair with their daughter. They lived in a charming old farmhouse about twenty miles ...
The Woman Who Knew Too Much - Caribbean Intrigue
“Many years ago, people used high-tech and filled me up with drugs to try and make me crazy. They said I knew too much about Tom’s activities and, one ...
Runaway Nazis on Caribbean Yachts
It has often been asserted that Paraguay is the last haven for that repugnant breed of Germans whose political inclinations and ignominious conduct during World War Two compelled them, in ...
A Visit to Gaza - the World's Largest Open-Air Prison Camp
An open-air prison. No one I know has been to the Gaza strip since the Hamas takeover, and I admit that I’m a bit scared. I lived in Jerusalem during ...
Venice. the Fragile and the Extraordinary
Venice at twilight. The sea mist which enveloped the city the entire day seems to be disappearing, and the sky begins to reveal herself. Thick ribbons of peach ...
Black Earth City by Charlotte Hobson – Book Reviews
Black Earth City is one of the most delightful traveler tales you’re likely to come across. By turns funny, poignant and tragic, Charlotte Hobson records her year spent in
Downloading in Disaster Zones
I was born in the 70’s, the so-called ‘golden age’ of porn, the decade when the term ‘swinging’ first hit the street and the Weather Underground and others were trying ...
Travel Product Review - How Sar Quick Lock
Some guy recently sent us the How Sar Quick Lock and a note reading: how’s our Quick Lock?. We decided to put it to the Road Junky review. This ...
