World Destinations

Road Junky has thousands of pages of content of travelers' tales, tips, and guides which cover many countries of the world. On this site, you'll find enough inspiring, controversial, and provoking imagery and dreams to keep you on the road for years trying to find out if it's all true.

If you can't get up and go this minute, spend time reading our site - it's the next best thing! Below you'll find our content sorted by continent, just click a link to get started reading.


Asia

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Thailand Travel Guide - Exotic Paradise, Backpacker Hell

Thailand’s hardly a secret destination. Every year, millions upon millions of pale-skinned tourists flock to the most beautiful parts of the country to take advantage of a cheap, safe tropical ...

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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 ...

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The other side of the bars – visiting prisoners in Kathmandu

In 1992, I did a four-month overland trip, starting in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and ending up in Kathmandu, Nepal, via Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang Province, Western Tibet, Lhasa, and the southern ...

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"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 ...

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Slumdog Millionaire - Review of Danny Boyle's Mumbai Classic

There’s the contestant, the Slumdog Millionaire himself, having his head dunked in a bucket and then electrically shocked until he confesses. He’s been accused of cheating on the Indian version ...

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Playing the name game in Kyrgyzstan

It was announced today that the Jogorku Kengesh, the parliament of Central Asian coup capital Kyrgyzstan, has delayed the renaming of a 4,446-metre mountain in honour of Russian Prime Minister ...

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Europe

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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 ...

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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 ...

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The Special Bus from London to Athens

There used to be a ‘Special Bus’ that journeyed from London to Athens. The Magic Bus was said to be rough; for many years the Special Bus defied description, but ...

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A Walk Along La Rambla, Barcelona, Spain

Every city has its street, it seems, that is supposed to be the showcase of the character and charm of the place. London has Portobello Road, visitors to

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Hitchhiking France Travel

Busking in the streets in Biarritz an Algerian and a Frenchman came along and threw me a few coins. In a mixture of broken French and English they laughed to ...

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Foot Fetishes On a German Train

If you asked Dante, there are many kinds of hell. The flatterers, the sorcerers, the hoarders and even the lustful have their own layers. And so they should. Participants in ...

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Caribbean

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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, ...

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Five Rules of Cuban Attraction

Eventually the restless Italian on the bus from Cienfuegos to Havana slumped into the seat across from mine. There he sprawled out and fell asleep, unaware that one pink testicle ...

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Baseball in Havana, Cuba

It was a group of Mormon missionaries that I had met only a few weeks earlier in Mexico that had proposed the idea of going to Cuba. They had traveled ...

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Grenada War, Caribbean Job

It was early October and I was sitting alone, enjoying an evening beer in Pat’s Pub, when Geoffrey Smith-Talbot strode in through the main entrance. He looked efficient and purposeful ...

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Tools of Imperialism: Some Things You Won't Find in Cuba

Keeping a revolution alive for 52 years is no easy matter. In their time as top dogs of Cuba the Brothers Castro have dealt with invasion, missile crisis, economic collapse ...

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Latin America

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Cities

Rio 

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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 ...

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Nicaragua Travel Guide - the Rice, Beans and Hammock Republic

Central America could have been one big, unified state. The volcanoes, the coffee plantations and the starch-laden meals remain consistent throughout; only the national prejudices and heroes change. The big ...

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Honeymoon Hell in Honduras

8/25/08

The wedding was gorgeous! I can’t believe after a year of planning its over, but now Ben and I have our next adventure – a working honeymoon in Honduras. We ...

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Palenque Travel Mexico

Life dripped off every leaf and it was as though we could hear the jungle breathing around us. Sunlight began to filter through the dewy vegetation and we walked like ...

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Brazil Amazon Hell Trip

When most people think of a river trip they imagine a peaceful excursion along the shores of Nature, picnics in the sun and an old boat creaking along in the ...

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Independence Day in Huanchaco, Peru

Smash a mirror into a million insignificant pieces, and then quickly glue the fragments back together. The mirror looks different than before: less iridescent, cracked, but still polished glass. ...

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Middle East

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Cities

Tel Aviv 

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Morocco Travel Guide Online

Morocco is the nearest exotic place to most of Europe and is the last foothold of Islam going East. In many ways it’s quite isolated with war-torn Algeria to ...

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Israel Travel Guide Online

For all the fuss about the place it’s pretty difficult to locate the first time you look it up on the world atlas. It’s around 0.05% of the Arabic land ...

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Looking for Sufi Dervishes in Kurdistan, Iran

I went to the Kurdish province of Western Iran in search of Sufis. The Sufis are a mystical order of Islam that could once have been found all over ...

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Islamic Iran is a Bunch of Laughs

There was a feel-good article in the Guardian the other day about laughter classes in Tehran.

God knows there’s lots to laugh about. Here’s a comic speech given by the ...

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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 ...

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A Day in the Life of a Road Junky Editor

I stuff some 25 second hand books into my rucksack, throw away the clothes with more than one hole in them, squash in the clarinet, sleeping bag, tent and yoga ...

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North America

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Canada  United States 

Cities

California 

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California Travel Guide Online

California is a garden of Eden,
A paradise to live in or see,
But believe it or not, you won;t find it so hot,
If you aint got the doh-ray-mi.

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An Airplane Ordeal

It was an ominous start. One hour before we were supposed to take the red-eye from Calgary to Montreal a nurse knocked on Scott’s hospital room door and matter-of-factly informed ...

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Waking Up On Crack in Vancouver

I remember it like one of those scenes from the movies where someone who has either died or gone into a coma suddenly rushes back to the light of consciousness. ...

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No Sympathy for a Hitchhiker in Canada

I stumbled groggily through the streets of Calgary in search of a bus stop. A vicious hangover added to the weight of my backpack. It was two in the afternoon ...

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A whole different country, eh?

However, he left one thing off the list – a travel guide about you on Road Junky. Despite being the world’s second-biggest country by area, a card carrying G8 member, ...

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Oceania

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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 ...

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Thumbs Up Australia, Hitchhiking Oz - Travel Book Reviews

Thumbs Up Australia by Tom Parry is a pleasant tale of a meek English journalist and his volatile French girlfriend hitching around Australia. Parry’s girlfriend, Katia, thinks he’s half-crazy but ...

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Road Junky Letters - Australia Aint Dangerous!

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to you in response to your list/article I stumbled onto Ten Reasons Not to Travel in Australia, the World’s Most Dangerous Country I have lived ...

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Kava in Fiji

As the flight began to make its descent the first glimpse of the island broke through the clouds revealing the straw shanties and unpaved roads that lined the tropical farming ...

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

It’s been said very reasonably that ‘just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean everyone isn’t out to get you’ – well, for anyone with even a slight persecution complex, travel in ...

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Africa

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Malawi - The Big-Hearted People

Driving my Land Cruiser from Lilongwe heading towards Monkey Bay, which is at the foot of Lake Malawi, I became aware of passing more people on a more frequent basis ...

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Attacked in Kenya

The tourist police arrived in an ancient looking green Land Rover. Five healthy, strong men emerged from it – three climbing down from the open back. The manager of Tiwi ...

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The Gardener and His 21 Flowers - Winner of the Road Junky Film Festival!

We showed 19 great films at the Road Junky Film Festival in Berlin a couple of weeks ago and the unanimous winner as voted by road junkies was a ...

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Selous - Sand Rivers

In the winter of 1980, Peter Matthiessen, the celebrated American writer, explorer and naturalist, set off on an extended foot safari into the remote southern regions of the Selous Game ...

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