Travel Stories from Around the World

The Chinese Olympics in Hell

Oh, China! That mythical land of martial arts and calligraphy, temple bells and dragons, Taoist wisdom and Oriental secrets!

Dream on.

For ...

Hand to Mouth to India by Tom Thumb - Hitchhiking to India With No Money

When I hitchhiked from England to India in 1997 it took me around four months and I ended up in ...

The Death of Ritual - Are Travelers Culture Vultures?

A good part of the reason that many of us travel is that our own culture seems so impoverished. Every ...

Legalise Cocaine and Make the World a Better Place

Travelers who are used to bumming around in South East Asia get a bit of a shock when they come ...

Your Second Home in the Sun - Aaaaaaagh!

It’s been years since I’ve lived in England, 13 to be precise but I still pass through every now and ...

Western Union - Getting Rich on the Backs of the Poor

Disclaimer: Road Junky could do with the publicity generated by a law suit for libel from Western Union but we’d ...

Pico Iyer, travel writer, found dead.

Possibly the most intelligent travel writer in the history of the Universe, with the exception possibly of Salman Rushdie, Pico ...

Foreign Currencies. the Falling Dollar and Travel - the Rate of Exchange

Picture it now, armies of faithful jihadis glued to Al-Jazeera, praying fervently for the dollar to drop another few cents ...

Road Junky Hacked by Angry Indians

Fans of the site may have noticed that our server went down for a couple of days – as a ...

There's No Travel Like Time Travel

You know, for all the uproar being made about the inhuman sweat shops that are propelling China towards economic prosperity ...

Why STA and their Tours Suck

I bought a discount student ticket once and now I can’t get away from STA’s spam mailing. Besides tickets I ...

Is Travel Dead?

Sometimes I see the ranks of backpackers waiting to go on their white water rafting experience, the tourists clicking away ...

Beijing Olympics - Will All Hell Break Loose?

What happens when you combine the world’s largest event with a police state intent on silencing dissidents?

We’re going to find ...

Skype Mobile and the Death of Travel

The Skype mobile is now out and whilst it’s only available in certain countries, it made me want to ...

Why Dubai Should be Avoided

From the NYTimes comes a story about a boy raped by Emirati men in Dubai, a city justifiably listed ...

BBC Buys the Lonely Planet But They Sold Out Years Ago

The BBC today bought out the Lonely Planet for an undisclosed sum but we’ve got to be talking hundreds ...

Don't Mess with Monks in Myanmar

As of 1 October, the US State Department didn’t yet issue a travel warning against going to Myanmar (Burma), but ...

Global Warming Travel Destinations of the Future

The sea level is rising. So who’s up for surfing Antarctica ? Is it too “Brangelina” to go to New ...

Backpacker Morality and Travel Principles, ho, ho

Once upon a time people hit the road to find out who they were and who everyone else in the ...

Evil Streets of the World

There are streets in the world’s cities that leave you with the impression that something more is hidden behind ...

Travel in the Age of Terror

Since 9/11 it would seem that travel changed forever. Bombs on buses in London and trains in Madrid confirmed that ...

Israelis, Palestinians and the Myth of Cultural Identity

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its past and by a common hatred of its neighbours.” ...

The War of Terror Against the Muslims

Some years ago, I was in Delhi and an Indian told me with great certainty:

“Look anywhere in the world ...

Immigrants - the Only Real Travelers Left

Travel was once the domain of the adventurer, the intrepid explorer who dared leave behind all he knew and set ...

Homogenous World Culture

Just about anywhere these days it seems is within reach of a package flight company. There are guides to every ...