World Destinations
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Asia
Countries
Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma Cambodia China East Timor Georgia Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal North Korea Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Tibet Turkmenistan Uzbekistan VietnamGet started by reading
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 ...
Goa Travel Guide Online
Goa is a state on the West coast of India and used to be a Portuguese colony and the Catholic heritage lives on. The Hindus now outnumber the
Honk or You're Dead
The traffic in Hanoi is supposed to be legendary. Reputation precedes it, spread by those who claim to know. When I tell them that I plan on driving a ...
Journey's end in Chennai
Many foreign tourists who visit Chennai (Madras) do not stay long. The crowds, traffic and the India-style chaos that typifies the subcontinent overwhelm and more than a few try to ...
Culture Shock in the Philippines
A few days in Angeles, Philippines had left my 18 year old mind reeling in ways that I couldn’t have imagined. My new-found freedom seemed infinite, the entire world at ...
Riding the Bamboo Train - Cambodia Travel Story
Deep in the Cambodian jungle I was rewarded with the kind of experience only those who wander fall afield can find.
Locals call it the Norry Train, but to everyone else ...
Europe
Countries
Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia Herzegovina Britain Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland UkraineGet started by reading
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 ...
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, ...
Sleazy American Businessmen in Zagreb
At 3 a.m, the topless hooker and the cocaine freak snuck off to a bedroom, leaving me alone with the old, Israeli bazillionaire and a box of hazelnut chocolates.
I ...
Death and Enlightenment in South Italy
Last year I had the idea I wanted to live in South Italy, what with the good weather, fine food and women with dazzling green eyes. I’d learnt Italian for ...
Saving a Spanish Cat
We were ready to return to our chaotic Parisian lifestyle. My fiancé Fred and I were rejuvenated after a week in Parauta, a tiny village nestled in the mountains of ...
Getting Off With a Drunk Irishman in Croatia
White-sand beaches, clear-blue sea and quaint Mediterranean villas: That’s how the tourism board depicted Croatia. For months while I was living in Vienna I watched the commercials, studied the scenery ...
Caribbean
Countries
Antigua Bahamas Barbados Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and TobagoGet started by reading
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, ...
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 ...
Miss Universe Visits the Guantanamo Holiday Camp
As pressure grows on Barack Obama to go back on killjoy plans to close the Guantanamo Holiday Camp, the Venezuelan beauty, Dayana Mendoza, visited the camp and wrote glowingly ...
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 ...
The Tourist Divide in Jamaica
Towering over me, and blocking any potential escape, Steve spits incredulously:
“So, you don’t want anything? Dope? Cocaine? A nice Jamaican woman?”
I figure Steve is offering me these things because, ...
Latin America
Countries
Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Curacao Ecuador El Salvador French Guiana Guatemala Guyana Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay VenezuelaCities
RioGet started by reading
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
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 ...
Sexual Harassment in a Truck in Ecuador
Having woken up several days earlier, on the cold, hard floor of a stranger’s kitchen, with a naked man laying expectantly on top of me, (with me dressed and relatively ...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Coke and Favelas
A factor of living in third world countries like Brazil is that you can’t usually trust the police. They stopped and searched me a couple of times near my apartment ...
Once Upon a Time in Mexico - Tortillas, Manana
“Mexico is slow.”
My friend Tanya told me: a big mama type born and raised in Mexico but with features and build inherited from her Cuban mother. The people in ...
Video Clips of Brazil's Favelas and Ghettos
Beyond the hotels, beaches and the carnival party packages that draw thousands of tourists to Brazil every year, there lies the reality of everyday Brazil that the brochures never show. ...
Middle East
Countries
Algeria Bahrain Egypt Gaza Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Morocco Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Tunisia Turkey United Arab Emirates West Bank YemenCities
Tel AvivGet started by reading
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 ...
Iran Travel Guide Online
Painted as a land of cruel, women-hating fanatics, such cliches were invented only by the mass media to support wars abroad. The truth is that the people of Iran ...
Iranian Deports
“Shoot me.” Lantis said with a smile while looking the man square in the eyes and thumping heavily on his chest. Since the police officer had just pulled the top ...
Morocco Hashish
From Algeciras, Morocco can be seen, the point where travellers catch the ferry across the Gibraltar Straits. Algeciras is a town with the usual random menace of a ...
Morocco Travel Tuareg Nomads
Mountains wrap the perimeter of the hard scrubbed desert landscape and acquire a bluish tinge in the afternoon light. This is the southern tail of the Anti-Atlas mountains (named Djebel ...
Marrakesh Travel Morocco
Travel in Morocco would have been great if not for the actual travelling bit. That was when you met all the hustlers and punks who made your life a ...
North America
Cities
CaliforniaGet started by reading
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.
Paddle to the Amazon by Don Starkell Book Review
We’ve all heard of the father who wants to live out his dreams through his sons, but Don Starkell took it a step further by dragging his sons along with ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oceania
Countries
Antarctica Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu VanuatuGet started by reading
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 ...
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 ...
Antarctica Safari without Borders
Finally Hitting Bottom
Penguins are happier than clams. Now I know why.
Antarctica is a frozen otherworld safari without borders. A Quark Expeditions Russian icebreaker introduced me to the earth’s overwhelming ...
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 ...
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 ...
Africa
Countries
Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central Africa Republic Chad Comoros Congo Djibouti DR Congo Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia ZimbabweGet started by reading
Manhood in Mozambique
In the cynical modern world, the closest thing we have to a rite of passage into adulthood these days is going traveling after school.
But in Mozambique, the old traditions ...
Walking in Slums for Fun in Namibia
Almost every developing city has one; a place beyond the grasp of the law. Sometimes it is a crowded district with its own rules, other times it is a ...
Angola - Land of Endless War
At Ondangua, northern Namibia, I met up with the convoy I was traveling with into Angola. We encountered no border controls and continued on past Ruacana Falls to Xangongo, which ...
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 ...
