World Travel Mini Guides
Road Junky's irreverent guides to travel tell you how to get where you need to go without going broke, how to stay healthy on the road, and how to stay out of jail. The world awaits.
Expatriates, retirees and Criminals on the Run - the Expat Index - Bangkok Travel Guide Online - Guide to Tour Leading - Busking and Street Music Guide - Learn a New Language For Free - 101 Ways for the Traveler to Work Abroad - Travel Drugs Guide - Searching for that Perfect High - Webmaster on the Road - Work and Travel - The Telecommuting Traveler - Live and Work Abroad - Guide to Early Retirement - California Travel Guide Online - Goa Travel Guide Online - Himalayas Travel Guide Online - Rio De Janeiro Travel Guide Online - Tel Aviv Travel Guide - Brazil Music Guide - Blues Travel Guide - From Africa to America - Islam Guide Online - Buddhism Guide Online - Hinduism Guide Online - Guide to Development and International Aid - Christianity Guide - Judaism Guide - Diarrhea Guide for the Traveler - Travel Stomach Problems - Malaria Travel Guide - Guide to Dangerous Animals and Bugs for the Traveler - Volunteer Work for the Traveler - English Teaching Guide for the Traveler - How to Travel for Free - Hitchhiking Guide - Guide to Sofa Surfing - Free Hospitality - Travel Business Guide - Squatting Guide - Living out of your Vehicle (Boondocking) - Flights and Travel - Marijuana Guide for Travelers - Cocaine Guide Online - Lsd Guide Online - Charas in India - How to Carry Money when Travelling - First Time Travel Guide - Around the World Travel Guide - Getting far away for a long time - Travel Guide Books - Travel Scams Guide - The Rainbow Gatherings - Hippy Paradise - Travel Writing Guide Online - Great Journeys, Pilgrimages and Trips Guide - Off the Beaten Track Travel Guide - Get Back to Nature - Travel in the Wilds - World Festivals and Parties Guide - Dublin Travel Guide - Travel Photography Guide - 10 Worst Cities to Travel to - 10 Travel Destinations for Hippies, Freaks and Alternative Travelers - 10 Cool Cities to Travel and Live - Beijing Guide Online - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex Tourism But Were Scared to Ask - How Not to Get Beaten Up, Raped, Robbed, Kidnapped or Extorted Abroad
Expatriates, retirees and Criminals on the Run - the Expat Index
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 ...
Bangkok Travel Guide Online
Bangkok is probably the world’s hottest, most humid city and also one of the most intense. It’s a city that squeezes as much in as possible ...
Guide to Tour Leading
Travel the globe and earn money. Live a life that’s just “one big holiday“ and have an all year tan. Acquire a lover in every port, and wow your friends ...
Busking and Street Music Guide
Busking would seem the ideal way for the traveler to work his or her way around the world. All you need is a battered old guitar, a Bob Dylan songbook, ...
Learn a New Language For Free
What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?
Trilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?
Bilingual.
And what do you call someone who speaks only 1 language?
An ...
101 Ways for the Traveler to Work Abroad
Why would you want to work abroad? Well, you may be in one of the following categories:
1. You can’t afford to go travelling.
2. You want to know a culture from ...
Travel Drugs Guide - Searching for that Perfect High
Some people travel to learn about foreign cultures, some go abroad to learn about themselves, still others travel in the hopes of getting laid in exotic countries.
Yet there is also ...
Webmaster on the Road - Work and Travel
Once upon a time there was the Internet, and God was with the Internet…
The advent in the modern age of the internet offers the webmaster a unique way to work ...
The Telecommuting Traveler - Live and Work Abroad
Dig it, in the old days if you wanted to make money you had to turn up at the office, do working lunches with clients and work all day at ...
Guide to Early Retirement
‘Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?’
Edgar Bergen (1903 – 1978)
In the modern world people’s jobs define them – what do you do? is the ...
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.’
(“The Doh-Ray-Mi”, Woody Guthrie, ...
Goa Travel Guide Online
Goa is like an oasis in India
. When the maddening crowds finally begin to drive you insane, you can’t get rid of your diarrhea
and you want ...
Himalayas Travel Guide Online
To see the Himalayan mountains is to wash the soul of all the sin accumulated in a lifetime, according to Hinduism. It really does feel like the home of ...
Rio De Janeiro Travel Guide Online
Rio is one of those places that has suffered so much from the barrage of tourist agency propaganda that it’s hard to see the city for all of the ...
Tel Aviv Travel Guide
Tel Aviv is noisy, dirty, smelly and full of ugly, blackened buildings. There’s practically nowhere quiet to sit and collect your thoughts and it’s full of Israelis in a ...
Brazil Music Guide
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 ...
Blues Travel Guide - From Africa to America
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 ...
Islam Guide Online
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 ...
Buddhism Guide Online
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 ...
Hinduism Guide Online
Hinduism is probably the hardest religion of all to pin down. In fact, try and find two Hindus who believe exactly the same thing and you’ll be doing well. The ...
Guide to Development and International Aid
Mini-guide by Suzie Capelli
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
Christianity Guide
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 ...
Judaism Guide
Whatever the Sumerians might have to say about the matter, Judaism claims to have been the world’s first monotheistic religion. So whilst all the pagans were busy soliciting favours of ...
Diarrhea Guide for the Traveler
Just about every traveller who heads to the Third World ends up experiencing diarrhea. At first the whole subject is kind of embarrassing until you discover that in many countries ...
Travel Stomach Problems
A happy stomach basically comes down to eating well. If not then you can have every kind of indigestion, stomach cramps and gas imaginable.
Most stomach problems are caused by overeating, ...
Malaria Travel Guide
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 ...
Guide to Dangerous Animals and Bugs for the Traveler
We may be at the top of the food chain thanks to our reversible thumbs but in hand to hand combat with a hyena the smart money isn’t on ...
Volunteer Work for the Traveler
Road Junky asked me to write an article on voluntary work based on my experience as a volunteer in Rwanda. Much of this article relates to volunteering in the context ...
English Teaching Guide for the Traveler
If you’re a native speaker of English then you’ve always got a job somewhere abroad. Congratulations all you slackers! To be born with English as a mother tongue is one ...
How to Travel for Free
Long before the Lonely Planet claimed to show travelers how to ‘travel on a shoestring’, people had long been hitting the road with next to nothing or even less. Whilst ...
Hitchhiking Guide
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 ...
Guide to Sofa Surfing - Free Hospitality
One of the greatest things about traveling is all the great people you meet. Make a good impression and they may be reckless enough to give you their addresses along ...
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 ...
Squatting Guide
Squatting is the act of taking over an empty building and making it your home. There are various kinds of squats ranging from volunteer community centres to private homes to ...
Living out of your Vehicle (Boondocking)
I want to introduce you to a new method of traveling called boon-docking. Actually it is not really new at all. The RV crowd has been doing it for a ...
Flights and Travel
Flying around the world by plane may not be the most environmentally-friendly way to travel but, whilst they’re still piling up nuclear waste, it’s reasonable to suppose that taking a ...
Marijuana Guide for Travelers
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 ...
Cocaine Guide Online
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. ...
Lsd Guide Online
LSD, Lysergic Acid, was discovered in the 1950’s and many people believed it was a way to achieve higher spiritual states and cosmic consciousness.
LSD is usually found ...
Charas in India
Charas is the hand-rolled hashish of India and is an integral part of the country’s ancient culture. It’s considered sacred to the popular god, Shiva and the
How to Carry Money when Travelling
Now that you’ve worked for 6 months cleaning toilets, waiting on snotty customers who don’t tip at restaurants and creating future spinal complaints picking fruit, the last thing you want ...
First Time Travel Guide
So you might have been away with your folks before or even been on a weekend trip to Paris but getting on the road for real is something else. To ...
Around the World Travel Guide - Getting far away for a long time
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 ...
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 ...
Travel Scams Guide
Wouldn’t it be great if love really did make the world go round? Alas the path of the righteous traveler is set with scams, cons and hustles to leave you ...
The Rainbow Gatherings - Hippy Paradise
Those who think that the age of hippies has died have obviously never attended a Rainbow Gathering. Hippies, freaks, musicians, jugglers, and all kinds of weird and wonderful people congregate ...
Travel Writing Guide Online
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 ...
Great Journeys, Pilgrimages and Trips Guide
A journey takes you from a to z but the intervening letters can spell absolutely anything for the traveler in the meanwhile – a rite of passage, a pilgrimage or ...
Off the Beaten Track Travel Guide
It’s a small world and getting smaller.
The endless march of technology means that now live video can be sent across the planet from destinations previously only accessible to wanderers ...
Get Back to Nature - Travel in the Wilds
If you want to commune with the elements and not see a scrap of concrete, plastic or empty coke bottles for a 1000 miles, where do you go?
The good news ...
World Festivals and Parties Guide
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 ...
Dublin Travel Guide
Until the mid-nineties Dublin was a grim, sprawling port town, persistently grey and devoid of any redeeming features.
Except this was its redeeming feature. Utterly lacking in any sort of ...
Travel Photography Guide
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 ...
10 Worst Cities to Travel to
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 ...
10 Travel Destinations for Hippies, Freaks and Alternative Travelers
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 ...
10 Cool Cities to Travel and Live
‘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 ...
Beijing Guide Online
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, ...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex Tourism But Were Scared to Ask
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 ...
How Not to Get Beaten Up, Raped, Robbed, Kidnapped or Extorted Abroad
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 ...
