World Travel Country Guides
Road Junky's irreverent guides to country destinations are where you need to go to get unflattering, subjective depictions of the world. Here you will find everything you ever wanted to know about where to travel: how the people are, travel tips, where to find work, and much more. Happy Journey!
Argentina - Australia - Bolivia - Brazil - Britain - Colombia - Cuba - Ecuador - Georgia - Germany - Hong Kong - Hungary - India - Iran - Israel - Italy - Japan - Jordan - Kazakhstan - Mexico - Morocco - Netherlands - New Zealand - Pakistan - Peru - Philippines - Romania - Russia - South Korea - Tibet - Turkey - United States - Uzbekistan - Venezuela
Argentina Travel Guide
Argentina is a country that stands out from the rest of South America; its people are well-educated, its infrastructure highly developed, and the food is great (if you like eating ...
Australia Travel Guide Online
Australia: a sun-kissed land of intermittent spectacular and pristine beauty, with lots of incredibly boring bits in between. The wildlife of Australia is so unique that doubtful 19th century scientists ...
Bolivia Travel Guide - In the Middle of Nowhere
There is a story that when an emissary of the Spanish empire first arrived in Bolivia, he was offered a wheat beer by the Bolivian king. The emissary spat the ...
Brazil Travel Guide online
Brazil is just huge, larger than the USA if you don’t count Alaska. A good chunk of it is inaccessible Amazon rainforest but with 7000km of
Britain (UK) Travel Guide
When you check out the relative size of Britain on any honest map it’s kind of hard to imagine how this tiny island once took over most of the known ...
Colombia Travel Guide Online
Colombia probably doesn’t top most people’s list of vacation spots. With Amazon jungle, forest-covered mountains, beautiful women and Caribbean beaches it ought to but there’s a small snag: ...
Guantanamo Bay Holiday Camp Guide, Cuba
A holiday in the Caribbean is a vacation you’ll never forget. But where can a traveler go in these days where every hidden Paradise is overrun with tourism and development?
Well, ...
Ecuador Travel Guide
From cooing tortoises to sweaty salsa nights, manic surf spots to inner city revival, misty tree-tops to lasvacious Latinos – Ecuador is full of surprises. For one of the smallest ...
Georgia Travel Guide Online
Few countries have as much natural charm as Georgia. The scenery varies from the lush coastline on the Black Sea to the mighty Caucasus mountains. The food is great, and ...
Germany Travel Guide Online
The trains run on time, the food has strict quality standards, cars must pass stringent tests every two years, forests are more valued than buildings, and the people stop walking ...
Hong Kong Travel Guide Online
Hong Kong crows that it is Asia’s World City; it’s an appropriate label that for many people often translates into endless meetings and shopping excursions through towering offices and malls. ...
Hungary Travel Guide
When you get off the train and step into whatever city in Hungary you’re visiting, you won’t see much different from any other Eastern European city at first. You’ll probably ...
India Travel Guide Online
India is a huge place and seems about three times as large when you try to travel through it by train and bus. It’s home to more than a billion ...
Iran Travel Guide Online
Few places have been maligned with such appalling ignorance as Iran. Painted as a land of cruel, women-hating fanatics, such cliches were invented only by people who have never left ...
Israel Travel Guide Online
Israel is this tiny piece of land surrounded by Arab neighbors that wish it would slip back into the sea. Or perhaps just tilt so that that all the Israelis ...
Italy Travel Guide - Road Junky
Italy is the land of all things beautiful. From the good food to the designer clothes, from the medieval art to the historical towns, life in la bella Italia is ...
Japan Travel Guide Online
Japan is about as far East as you can go before you start feeling Western again. It’s way out on the edge of civilisation and in some ways feels like ...
Jordan Travel Guide
If you find your way to your favourite search engine and type in “Jordan”, you’ll probably be presented with a couple of dozen entries referring to an American basketball legend, ...
Guide to Kazakhstan
Jagsemash in the Kazakhstan – Cultural learnings of Kazakhstan for make benefit glorious readers of Roadjunky
Women in cages, canine slaughter, Jew-baiting and drinking fermented horse urine – do you ...
Mexico Travel Guide Online
Mexico likes to think it’s part of North America but is really the gateway to all things Latin for a continent and a half going south. It’s the largest and ...
Morocco Travel Guide Online
“Welcome, my friend, a thousand welcomes!” Morocco is the nearest exotic place to most of Europe and is the last foothold of Islam going East. In many ways it’s ...
Holland Travel Guide Online
Holland (or at least Amsterdam) is world famous for its liberal drug policy and institutionalization of prostitution but there is more to this tiny European country then its capital’s inherent ...
New Zealand Travel Guide - More than just sheep
Not many countries would be content to consider themselves one giant movie set. But subtract the digital enhancement and the annoying hobbits from the Lord of the Rings films, and ...
Pakistan Travel Guide Online
Pakistan won’t top the agendas of most tourists which makes it a great place to travel. It’s edgy, traditional and full of stories. You’re really out in the wilds in ...
Peru Travel Guide
Peru is a mind-blowing country. The natural beauty of the mountains, deserts, and jungle sit in contrast to narco-terrorist jungle towns, wide open mines and dumps, ridiculously over-touristed ruins and ...
Philippines Travel Guide - 7017 Islands
The Philippines are 7107 mountainous islands east of the South China Sea and the distance from the Asian mainland keeps the backpacker hordes at bay. Previous invaders were less troubled ...
Romania Travel Guide Online
Communists, vampires and gymnasts would seem to be the only inhabitants of Romania if the stereotypes were true. Add gypsies, orphans, and corrupted officials in the mix and you get ...
Russia Travel Guide Online
It’s as hard to sum up Russia or generalize about it, as it is to cross it. The biggest country in the world. Facing east, facing west. Advanced and modern, ...
South Korea Travel Guide
Just off the northeastern end of China, dangling out in The East Sea like a deflated hemorrhoid sits the strategically controversial flash point of Asian and international politics, the Korean ...
Tibet Travel Guide Online
If you open almost any book on Tibet, you’re likely to see big colourful pictures of mountains and monasteries, oversized Buddhas, and chanting saffron robed monks. What you probably won’t ...
Istanbul cops, Turkish Hooligans & Serendipity - Hand to Mouth to India Chapter 7
In the morning, I was informed that I had barely entered Istanbul and was only on the periphery. That was why it had all seemed so dull. Meekly, I allowed ...
United States Travel Guide Online
The expansive United States is a country that challenges the world traveler to adjust to its scale. Little children in India are told tales that its streets are paved ...
Uzbekistan Travel Guide Online
To travel to Uzbekistan is like entering a parallel universe where nothing is quite as you expect it to be. Events in Andijon in May 2005, where more than 500 ...
Venezuela Travel Guide
Venezuela – the best kept secret in the Caribbean
So reads the Venezuelan Ministry of Tourism poster, and it may well be true. Venezuela is still not a must-do stop on ...
