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Behold - all of Roadjunky's irreverent travel guides. Here you will find everything you ever wanted to know about travel: from how to make money on the road to how to score the cheapest flights. Dig in and enjoy!

Cambodia Travel Guide Online

cambodia temples

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 ...

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The A to Z World Culture Encyclopedia

huichol

From African tribal masks to Zanzibar street food there is a lot with which travelers can get acquainted. This guide is the launching off point to learn about the diverse ...

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10 Cool Cities to Travel and Live

cities - the future of humanity?

‘A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man’s history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.’ (Charles Abrams)

For some travelers, gazing ...

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How Not to Get Beaten Up, Raped, Robbed, Kidnapped or Extorted Abroad

Bolvia hospital

The perils that face the traveler are many: natural disasters, disease, wild animals and falling guidebooks are all amongst the most common causes of death abroad but as we all ...

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"Hand to Mouth to India" - Hitchhiking to India With No Money - Chapter One

hitchhiking travel book to india

I walked out one midsummer’s morning to hitchhike to India with no money at all. I had with me my clarinet, a sleeping ...

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Australia Travel Guide Online

Australia Map by Marxchivist Flickr Creative Commons

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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Bolivia Travel Guide - In the Middle of Nowhere

bolivia map south america

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 ...

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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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10 Worst Cities to Travel to

Cities that make the traveler go mad

There’s a slang in Spanish, de mala muerte, which means ‘a bad place to die in’. Road Junky decided to gather together 10 of the worst cities in the world ...

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Malaria Travel Guide

malaria map

Around 30,000 travelers from the West catch malaria each year.

Every 30 seconds a kid in Africa dies from malaria.

In the 1960’s scientists were confident that malaria would soon be a ...

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex Tourism But Were Scared to Ask

Thai call girl

Sex tourism is seen by many as the epitome of our consumerist society and a symptom of the economic inequalities that wrack this planet. The streets of Patpong, Copacabana or ...

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Beijing Guide Online

beijing forbidden city lion

Every traveler you’ll meet in Beijing can tell you what they love and hate about this bustling, monstrous concrete leviathan sprawling over the northern Chinese dusts. Cursed with noxious fumes, ...

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Marijuana Guide for Travelers

 marijuana girl

People smoke marijuana around the world. In some countries, like Switzerland and the Netherlands, it is legal to buy. In other places it has all but been decriminalized. In Texas ...

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Dublin Travel Guide

Except this was its redeeming feature. Utterly lacking in any sort of pretension, the city and its people welcomed all with open arms to a nearby bar to while away ...

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New Zealand Travel Guide - More than just sheep

New Zealand Islands Map

Not many countries would be content to consider themselves one giant movie set. But subtract the digital enhancement and the annoying hobbits from the Lord of the Rings films, and ...

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Peru Travel Guide

Map of Peru

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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Venezuela Travel Guide

venezuela map

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 ...

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Cocaine Guide Online

Cocaine

Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant normally found in powder form. It’s typically taken by cutting up the coke into lines and then snorting them through a rolled up banknote. ...

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Travel Photography Guide

travel photo camera

These days everyone is a travel photographer it seems. Cheap digital cameras that record thousands of images (no more paying for getting films developed) has meant that the average backpacker ...

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Hitchhiking Guide

Hitchhiking dreams

In the safety-conscious age of consumer travel, hitchhiking is one of the few opportunities for real adventure. Whilst the fears sewn by the modern media have drastically reduced the numbers ...

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Buddhism Guide Online

The starving Buddha of Lahore

Buddhism is kind of strange in that it began in India and is now almost extinct there. It began in one place and then spread so far that it’s ...

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Tibet Travel Guide Online

tibetan monks buddhism

If you open almost any book on Tibet, you’re likely to see big colourful pictures of mountains and monasteries, oversized Buddhas, and chanting saffron robed monks. What you probably won’t ...

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Romania Travel Guide Online

Map of Romania

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 ...

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Travel Guide Books

travel guide books

The evolution of the travel guide books was always going to be bad news for the planet. They’re responsible for a generation of consumer travelers who talk about ‘doing’ places ...

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Islam Guide Online

Muslim prsying

Have prayer mat, will travel

Islam claims a billion followers and is one of the most misunderstood religions in the world. It’s a close cousin of Christianity but has no ...

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Travel Business Guide

It looks easy no? You wander through the markets of India, Thailand or Morocco and you see how cheap everything is. Just think of what it would ...

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India Culture Guide

indian flag

If ever there was a headache for the anthropologist it’s the complex culture of India. With one of the world’s oldest religions and a tendency to absorb every social, political ...

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Israeli Culture Guide

israeli flag

This is one of Road Junky’s most controversial guides in a fun way – Israelis are an opinionated people and despise having their way of life subjected to generalization. We’ve ...

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England Culture Guide

prince charles

England, the country that gave America the inspiration to spread its own culture around the world whether the world wanted it or not. The empire may have been ceded to ...

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Brazil Culture Guide

brazil football culture

Brazilian culture is frequently lost behind the cliches of the non stop party and samba girls in sequin bikinis. Get a bit closer though and you’ll see what the heart ...

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10 Travel Destinations for Hippies, Freaks and Alternative Travelers

hippies at a festival

Mention the word ‘hippie’ to most people and they’ll immediately give you the peace sign and make some corny joke about marijuana and the 60’s. Oh yeah, VW vans, long ...

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Philippines Travel Guide - 7017 Islands

Map of the Philippines

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 ...

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Britain (UK) Travel Guide

When you check out the relative size of Britain on any honest map it’s kind of hard to imagine how this tiny island once took over most of the known ...

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Guantanamo Bay Holiday Camp Guide, Cuba

guatanamo jailers

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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Hong Kong Travel Guide Online

Map of Hong Kong

Hong Kong crows that it is Asia’s World City; it’s an appropriate label that for many people often translates into endless meetings and shopping excursions through towering offices and malls. ...

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Hungary Travel Guide

map Hungary

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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Iran Travel Guide Online

iran map

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 ...

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Expatriates, retirees and Criminals on the Run - the Expat Index

Permenant Vacation

Maybe you’re looking at retiring early somewhere warm, maybe you want to just relocate somewhere different and discover a new way of life, or maybe you’re on the run from ...

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Colombia Travel Guide Online

Could Colombia be the Land of your Dreams?

Colombia probably doesn’t top most people’s list of vacation spots. With Amazon jungle, forest-covered mountains, beautiful women and Caribbean beaches it ought to but there’s a small snag: ...

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World Festivals and Parties Guide

World Party!

Pick up any medical textbook and you’ll soon see that the number of ways you could die are almost inexhaustible. There are fatal diseases of the lungs, the stomach, the ...

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Holland Travel Guide Online

holland.jpg

Holland (or at least Amsterdam) is world famous for its liberal drug policy and institutionalization of prostitution but there is more to this tiny European country then its capital’s inherent ...

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Get Back to Nature - Travel in the Wilds

Henry David Thoreau

The good news is that despite the factories churning out carbon dioxide, the proliferation of radioactive nuclear plants and the third world populations succumbing to the disease of consumerism, the ...

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Off the Beaten Track Travel Guide

Off the map

The endless march of technology means that now live video can be sent across the planet from destinations previously only accessible to wanderers who came equipped with their own camel. ...

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Great Journeys, Pilgrimages and Trips Guide

Weary Pilgrims and Explorers

A journey takes you from a to z but the intervening letters can spell absolutely anything for the traveler – a rite of passage, a pilgrimage or just a mind ...

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Blues Travel Guide - From Africa to America

american blues african

The USA was less built upon the shoulders of brave pioneers than on the backs of the millions of slaves imported from Africa. In the 18th century the ...

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Brazil Music Guide

Brazil - love to dance

Brazilians are very at home in their bodies and grow up with a strong sense of rhythm. When they are infants they’re set to dance with the adults and ...

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Guide to Development and International Aid

Disclaimer: This article contains my opinions on the aid industry and development which have been formed in a large part by time spent as a development volunteer in

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Christianity Guide

jesus the rebel

Christianity is the world’s single largest religion and is responsible for most of the course of the last 2000 years of world history. That’s not a glowing recommendation but ...

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Travel Writing Guide Online

bill bryson travel writer

Travel writing is the dream of many a backpacker. Getting paid to do what you love most and seeing your name in print in the airport bookshops – to be ...

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Around the World Travel Guide - Getting far away for a long time

Missing

Working in the real world has got you down? Feel like you’ve been at school forever? With the stresses and strains of modern society it’s easy to feel like we’re ...

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Abu Dhabi Photo Guide

abudhabimall

Once upon a time they were just a bunch of Bedouin riding around on camels, sucking dates, almost completely cut off from the world. Then the Arabs discovered black gold ...

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Cambodia Photo Guide

Khmer Rouge, land mines and adorable kids.

Photo Guide to Curacao - Part One

Come right over and learn to speak Papiamento.


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