World Destinations
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
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
Cambodia Travel Guide Online
Cambodia is an odd country. Virtually no other society in recorded history can boast to have destroyed itself as thoroughly as Cambodia did during the 1970’s. Hundreds of thousands, 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 ...
Ken Tanaka, American Youtube Comedian in Japan
Ken Tanaka is rising to fame on Youtube with his videos about Japanese life and culture. With deadpan irony he speaks English with the accent and idiosyncrasies of a Japanese ...
Motorbiking in Ladakh
My left leg is hanging over a 3000-metre drop into a certain death. My right shoulder is touching a truck that we are trying to pass. I am sitting on ...
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 ...
Yin Yang Traffic China Travel Story
We’d flown into Kunming and spent just a night there, but the changes in the anthropological landscape were immediately striking: this was now quite obviously Central Asia. The people were ...
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
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, ...
Ibiza Travel Hippie Spain
Back in ´99 I came back to England after a few years of absence and at once got itchy feet. I headed down to the travel agency to check out ...
Radioactive day-trip: Chernobyl – not for the faint-hearted
Everyone remembers where they were on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, and some of our older readers will almost certainly tell you what they were doing when they heard that
In Croatia Even the Inanimate Sea Life Hated Me (Part Two)
The first available ferry brought me to Korcula, one of the few Adriatic islands to boast a real backpackers’ hostel. I’d heard that it filled up fast, and that it ...
Seaside France Travel Story
Seaboard towns the world over have something slightly seedy about them, in Greece as in Jersey. Even if ships no longer sail in and out of their bustling ports carrying ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
Sex and Germans in the Mountains of Peru
Huaraz felt like a trap and I had to get out. I told my Peruvian girlfriend Maria this and she agreed. We had to get out, even if only for ...
Carindiru, World Film Reviews
Carindiru is the film based on the book of the same name by Drauzio Varella, memoirs of his experience as a doctor working in the jail of Sao Paolo, Brazil. ...
A Narrow Escape in the Belizean Jungle
You never know when these situations will arise. They’re the type that force action, challenge your response and lay hauntingly in the thick of human probability. Allow me to ...
A Trip to Ciudad Juarez, the Most Dangerous City in the World
As I bought my bus ticket to Ciudad Juarez I looked out of the window of the Greyhound bus station and saw on the side of a mountain the words:
LA ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
The Valley of the Hippies in Morocco
Shuffling out of town along the coastal road, it occurred to me how easily the spell of civilization is broken, and how easily this void is filled. In Taghazoute a ...
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 ...
Climbing the Egyptian pyramids - Japanese Style
Among some of the more famous climbers of the past was Mark Twain. He climbed up to the top in the mid-Nineteenth Century or rather he was dragged and carried ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Crap Safari
A single, bare, overhead 300 watt light bulb hung over our orientation meeting. While it attracted most of the mosquitoes in southern Africa, it did little to dispel my gloom. ...
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 ...
