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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
