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NEPAL | Fri, 24 Feb 2012 | By travel-tips | Views [14577] | Comments [9]
My love affair with Nepal began when my brother moved there for a year back in 2005. I can remember receiving emails from him where he would describe the friendly locals, endless Momo’s and beautiful artworks. I always knew it was a must see for ... Read more >
Tags: culture, food, girls guide, nepal, travel, trekking
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 1 Aug 2010 | By kurenai | Views [4941] | Comments [3]
I like chocolate. Melbourne has chocolate cafés. It seemed quite natural to put the two together during my one year stint living down under and see what I could come up with. I admit that I have a penchant for dark, thick, rich chocolate rather ... Read more >
Tags: australia, cafe, chocolate, food, melbourne
WORLDWIDE | Mon, 21 Jun 2010 | By responsible-travel | Views [4680] | Comments [4]
This graphic is a great way to explain what volunteer travel is. Get an quick snapshot of WHO 'voluntravels', WHERE they go, WHY they go and HOW MUCH it costs. Find out if you're a 'vanguard, a 'pragmatist' or a 'quester'. Click the ... Read more >
CHILE | Wed, 11 Mar 2009 | By karin_lang | Views [2962] | Comments [4]
Die Hauptinsel ist 180kg lang und 50 km breit. Der Sueden ist nicht zugaenglich und wilder Nationalpark. Das Land ist huegelig und ueberaus gruen. Es regnetet hier sehr viel (nicht in den 3 Tagen wo ich da war :-) ). Darwin schrieb: Im Winter ist das ... Read more >
SOMALIA | Fri, 8 Mar 2013 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [2854]
After spending more than a month in Ethiopia I crossed the no-man's land into Somaliland. At customs I was photographed and told "Welcome to Somaliland" after getting an entry stamp that most well-seasoned travellers would only dream of. When I exchanged ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Wed, 5 Dec 2012 | By connectlocally | Views [2450] | Video
Hanna Butler , the winner of World Nomads 2012 Travel Writing Scholarship , travelled to Southeast Asia to immerse herself in the local culture and write about her experiences.
In Bali, Indonesia, Hanna seeks out and finds a traditional ... Read more >
Tags: bali, indonesia, magic, scholarship, travel, writing
AUSTRALIA | Sat, 12 Jan 2013 | By sianmercel | Views [2242]
Recently, over the festive season, my Mother and I went road tripping around the Pilbara. The Pilbara is located in Western Australia in the top-west section (AKA the Great Sandy Desert). As you can imagine, there is a LOT of red dirt EVERYWHERE! We ... Read more >
Tags: karijini national park, pilbara, trekking, western australia
CANADA | Wed, 29 Jun 2011 | By michelefacciotto | Views [1854]
Saturday 25 June 2011, begin the 2nd part of my adventure. I have dinner with Soo, a kind and nice girl from Toronto I met on Couchsurfing. At 22:00 I leave with the train, destination Vancouver. The train is pretty comfortable, I have two seat for ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1657]
After two days sitting comfortably in Newcastle the weather was looking a lot better. I made a decision to give up rough weather unless i get caught out there unexpectedly. with my new philosophy on cruising being that i dont have plans, i dont ... Read more >
PERU | Wed, 24 Jul 2013 | By margitpirsch | Views [1333]
.....and the next morning the dirt road again down, down, down to the same river we spend the night at the hot springs (baños) a few days earlier. It got hot and dry - desert like and the canyon we rode through for hours on dirt roads was something ... Read more >
Tags: picture by james polack
MEXICO | Sun, 26 Jan 2014 | By sneaver | Views [1315] | Comments [1]
La Paz is a bustling port city named for the initial demeanor of the indigenous inhabitants upon the arrival of Spanish missionaries; however, those peaceful folk later changed said demeanor after too many bibles had been chucked at their polygamist ... Read more >
SPAIN | Sun, 24 Aug 2014 | By rmckinley | Views [1315]
It started out as a rainy miserable day. I had to catch an early train from Barcelona to Bilbao and thankfully it was only a ten-minute walk, as it was just starting to drizzle. With the clouds hanging like an impending doom over the train, I had trouble ... Read more >
Tags: aste nagusia, basque, bilbao, festival, rain, spain, train travel, travel
PERU | Tue, 23 Jan 2007 | By thehappyeggs | Views [1307]
Well on the move again and to one of my personal highlights – Nazca – home of the famous and yet mysterious lines. The place is a small town in the middle of nowhere!! The town survives because of the tourist travel for the lines but most people ... Read more >
Tags: People
THAILAND | Sun, 25 May 2008 | By jfernandes | Views [1229] | Comments [1]
Having stayed in some fairly basic accommodation for the first week, I was pleasantly surprised when the hotel receptionist of the Viengtai Hotel handed me a room key after checking in for my tour. Clean, air-conditioned room - bliss. There were 5 other ... Read more >
INDONESIA | Wed, 10 Aug 2011 | By zapatosrojos | Views [1152]
I have a problem with Ubud, Bali, Indonesia and I guess its a problem that many face when they travel. The Ubud described by Ms Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert, Elizabeth) does not exist anymore; gone is the peaceful, calm, agricultuarally based community ... Read more >
Tags: bali, eat pray love, ubud
THAILAND | Mon, 28 Mar 2011 | By katl | Views [1010] | Comments [11]
Die Reise nach Bangkok, war eine emotionale Achterbahn, gezeichnet von einigen Ups and Downs... Meine Top5 Ups: Die beinah menschenleere Wartehalle in Berlin waehrend der 4stuendigen Wartezeit zum eigenen Wohnzimmer machen und die Zeit vollkommen ... Read more >
Tags: bangkok
MOROCCO | Sun, 7 Jul 2013 | By vagabondstoo | Views [989]
The tourist office in Meknes was closed on Friday afternoon - almost everything else was too, either because of the holy day or the heat - so we never found a map of the medina. Rather than wander aimlessly we waited for the temperature to drop ... Read more >
SAMOA | Mon, 28 Nov 2016 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [865]
Only a little more than a week I have left in Samoa. For the past couple of days I’ve been staying with John, Lagi, and family. They have four children: George, Frank, Mona, and Fina. Lagi made her first carrot cake last night; excitedly enough, ... Read more >
MALAWI | Fri, 16 Oct 2009 | By africa2009 | Views [864]
Mike zatrabil klaksonem. Po chwili wartownik otworzyl wielka metalowa brame. Wjechalismy powoli na podworko, po ktorym biegala para kilkuletnich chinskich dzieci. Dom wygladal na bardzo zaniedbany. Z garazu wyszla starsza kobieta z Chin i pewnym ... Read more >
CHINA | Sat, 10 Aug 2013 | By aussie_ange | Views [840]
After the first week of training it was time for a couple days off!
For our planned day trip as a group it was off to the Summer Palace!
Such a big Palace, but truly amazing. Definitely need to go back and see it in Winter. With the ice ... Read more >
Tags: beijing, china, food, summer palace, ttc
FAROE ISLANDS | Thu, 30 May 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [763]
Early I had a gorgeous view as I was ready to take the Faroe Islands by storm (albeit without the storm) and see and do as much as possible within these majestic islands. I had originally hoped to spend two weeks in the Faroes and go to every main island ... Read more >
GERMANY | Tue, 3 Oct 2017 | By europe2013 | Views [718]
Big thanks to Maddy for dropping us to the airport. Then Tuesday was just a day of sitting in planes and walking in terminals where we had the chance. We were in the centre of the plane so did not even see anything special – but I did have ... Read more >
PERU | Sun, 29 Jun 2008 | By ranizo | Views [710]
When my alarm went off at 3.30am on the 22nd I really didn't want to get up in the freezing cold to go trekking all day....but I was ready by 4am and by 7am my new family for the next five days and I were in Mollepata for breakfast. Our 'family' was ... Read more >
USA | Sun, 29 Apr 2007 | By teresa421 | Views [699] | Comments [1]
lima at 10.30 PM SAT NIGHT IS A HOPING PLACE! WE WERE GREETED BY THRONGS OF PEOPLE YELLING MANY THINGS <(WHO KONW WHAT) IN SPANISH. I THINK THEY WERE TRYING TO GET US TO RIDE WITH THEM. fORTUNATELY mah HAD PREARRANGED THE CAB AND WE WERE NOT HAVING ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
NETHERLANDS | Thu, 25 Aug 2016 | By kimswim | Views [604]
Tallinn, Estonia is truly a gem. The entire old city, which is quite large, is a UNESCO, World Heritage Site (We walked over 8 miles in the “old city”). It is steeped in history and beauty. And you can see the different cultural influences ... Read more >