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Western Union - Getting Rich on the Backs of the Poor

By Roadjunky. Filed in: Editorial - Culture-Guides.

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

Beijing Guide Online

By Roadjunky. Filed in: Guides - Beijing.

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, a history of malevolent dictators, and foul weather potent enough ...

Sexy Beijing - Wedding Gone Wild

By Roadjunky. Filed in: RoadjunkyTV - China.

Episode from our favorite Jewish Beijing resident – Su Fei.

Japan Photo Guide - Dragons

By David Weber. Filed in: Photo Guides - Japan

Dragons in the Far East are a symbol of wealth, wisdom, health and happiness.

Come to Bangladesh

By Erik Johnson. Filed in: Articles - Bangladesh.

Before I left I heard it said that the tourist slogan for Bangladesh was, Come to Bangladesh– before the tourists do. In fact, there may be time yet, said my friend with laughing: they’ve had the same slogan for over ...

Brazil Music Guide

By Roadjunky. Filed in: Guides - World-Music.

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 you’ll see 5 year olds swinging their hips perfectly in ...

The Tragic Story of Vindalf the Dog in La Palma

By Tom Thumb. Filed in: Articles - Spain.

The Rainbow Gathering in the Canary Island of La Palma was the first I’d ever attended where I didn’t freeze to death. Instead of the usual setting on top of a mountain somewhere exposed to the cruelest winds available, our hippie camp was down on a beach where towering Atlantic waves pounded the shore relentlessly.

All around us were black volcanic cliffs in a permanent state of disintegration, the occasional pebble ...

Across the Andes Finishes

By Roadjunky. Filed in: Articles - Travel-Inspiration.

Hikers Gregg Treinish and Deia Scholsberg have completed what must truly have been a life changing epic voyage – 20 months of overland trekking from Ecuador, all the way through to the tip of South America Tierra del Fuego. Featured on this website, their perseverance while trudging, rambling and climbing through the Andes is an inspiring message to all would-be road junkies that there are plenty of unique journeys ...

What is the What by Dave Eggers - Travel Book Reviews

By Leslie Pearson. Filed in: Articles - Books-and-Movies.

The life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Dinka from southern Sudan, is one of constant motion in Dave Eggers’ What is the What. From the age of six, Valentino (who goes through several different names and reincarnations along his journey from Sudan to the United States) is a Lost Boy on the run from the murahaleen, the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army, wild animals, and from anyone he comes across in ...