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Behold - all of Roadjunky's irreverent travel guides. Here you will find everything you ever wanted to know about travel: from how to make money on the road to how to score the cheapest flights. Dig in and enjoy! |
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 ...
How Not to Get Beaten Up, Raped, Robbed, Kidnapped or Extorted Abroad
The perils that face the traveler are many: natural disasters, disease, wild animals and falling guidebooks are all amongst the most common causes of death abroad but as we all ...
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 ...
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 ...
10 Worst Cities to Travel to
There’s a slang in Spanish, de mala muerte, which means ‘a bad place to die in’. Road Junky decided to gather together 10 of the worst cities in the world ...
Malaria Travel Guide
Around 30,000 travelers from the West catch malaria each year.
Every 30 seconds a kid in Africa dies from malaria.
In the 1960’s scientists were confident that malaria would soon be a ...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex Tourism But Were Scared to Ask
Sex tourism is seen by many as the epitome of our consumerist society and a symptom of the economic inequalities that wrack this planet. The streets of Patpong, Copacabana or ...
Beijing Guide Online
Every traveler you’ll meet in Beijing can tell you what they love and hate about this bustling, monstrous concrete leviathan sprawling over the northern Chinese dusts. Cursed with noxious fumes, ...
Marijuana Guide for Travelers
People smoke marijuana around the world. In some countries, like Switzerland and the Netherlands, it is legal to buy. In other places it has all but been decriminalized. In Texas ...
Dublin Travel Guide
Until the mid-nineties Dublin was a grim, sprawling port town, persistently grey and devoid of any redeeming features.
Except this was its redeeming feature. Utterly lacking in any sort of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cocaine Guide Online
Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant normally found in powder form. It’s typically taken by cutting up the coke into lines and then snorting them through a rolled up banknote. ...
Travel Photography Guide
These days everyone is a travel photographer it seems. Cheap digital cameras that record thousands of images (no more paying for getting films developed) has meant that the average backpacker ...
Hitchhiking Guide
In the safety-conscious age of consumer travel, hitchhiking is one of the few opportunities for real adventure. Whilst the fears sewn by the modern media have drastically reduced the numbers ...
Buddhism Guide Online
Buddhism is kind of strange in that it began in India and is now almost extinct there. It began in one place and then spread so far that it’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Travel Guide Books
The evolution of the travel guide books was always going to be bad news for the planet. They’re responsible for a generation of consumer travelers who talk about ‘doing’ places ...
10 Cool Cities to Travel and Live
‘A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man’s history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.’ (Charles Abrams)
For some travelers, gazing ...
Islam Guide Online
Have prayer mat, will travel
Islam claims a billion followers and is one of the most misunderstood religions in the world. It’s a close cousin of Christianity but has no ...
Travel Business Guide
It looks easy no? You wander through the markets of India, Thailand or Morocco and you see how cheap everything is. Just think of what it would ...
India Culture Guide
If ever there was a headache for the anthropologist it’s the complex culture of India. With one of the world’s oldest religions and a tendency to absorb every social, political ...
Israeli Culture Guide
This is one of Road Junky’s most controversial guides in a fun way – Israelis are an opinionated people and despise having their way of life subjected to generalization. We’ve ...
England Culture Guide
England, the country that gave America the inspiration to spread its own culture around the world whether the world wanted it or not. The empire may have been ceded to ...
Brazil Culture Guide
Brazilian culture is frequently lost behind the cliches of the non stop party and samba girls in sequin bikinis. Get a bit closer though and you’ll see what the heart ...
10 Travel Destinations for Hippies, Freaks and Alternative Travelers
Mention the word ‘hippie’ to most people and they’ll immediately give you the peace sign and make some corny joke about marijuana and the 60’s. Oh yeah, VW vans, long ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Expatriates, retirees and Criminals on the Run - the Expat Index
Maybe you’re looking at retiring early somewhere warm, maybe you want to just relocate somewhere different and discover a new way of life, or maybe you’re on the run from ...
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: ...
World Festivals and Parties Guide
Pick up any medical textbook and you’ll soon see that the number of ways you could die are almost inexhaustible. There are fatal diseases of the lungs, the stomach, the ...
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 ...
Get Back to Nature - Travel in the Wilds
If you want to commune with the elements and not see a scrap of concrete, plastic or empty coke bottles for a 1000 miles, where do you go?
The good news ...
Off the Beaten Track Travel Guide
It’s a small world and getting smaller.
The endless march of technology means that now live video can be sent across the planet from destinations previously only accessible to wanderers ...
Great Journeys, Pilgrimages and Trips Guide
A journey takes you from a to z but the intervening letters can spell absolutely anything for the traveler in the meanwhile – a rite of passage, a pilgrimage or ...
Blues Travel Guide - From Africa to America
The USA was less built upon the shoulders of brave pioneers than on the backs of the millions of slaves imported from Africa. In the 18th century the ...
Brazil Music Guide
Brazilians are very at home in their bodies and grow up with a strong sense of rhythm. When they are infants they’re set to dance with the adults and ...
Guide to Development and International Aid
Mini-guide by Suzie Capelli
Disclaimer: This article contains my opinions on the aid industry and development which have been formed in a large part by time spent as a
Christianity Guide
Christianity is the world’s single largest religion and is responsible for most of the course of the last 2000 years of world history. That’s not a glowing recommendation but ...
Travel Writing Guide Online
Travel writing is the dream of many a backpacker. Getting paid to do what you love most and seeing your name in print in the airport bookshops – to be ...
Around the World Travel Guide - Getting far away for a long time
Working in the real world has got you down? Feel like you’ve been at school forever? With the stresses and strains of modern society it’s easy to feel like we’re ...
How to Carry Money when Travelling
Now that you’ve worked for 6 months cleaning toilets, waiting on snotty customers who don’t tip at restaurants and creating future spinal complaints picking fruit, the last thing you want ...
Charas in India
Charas is the hand-rolled hashish of India and is an integral part of the country’s ancient culture. It’s considered sacred to the popular god, Shiva and the
