Travel Guide

Among the best souvenirs I’ve from my first journey all over the world is the journal I saved over these 18 months. Having captured my ideas and emotions as I traveled has allowed me to relive that journey again and again within the years since. Recollections fade, so having the ability to relive occasions as […]

Surrounded by the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Central America is a magical area that’s excellent for backpacking. The world is filled with rainforests, unexplored Mayan ruins, beautiful seashores, unbelievable reefs, low-cost costs, scrumptious meals, and welcoming individuals. It may be tough arranging transportation all through the area. On this put up, I’ll present some useful

I’m happening a guide tour! My subsequent guide, How you can Journey the World on $75 a Day, is popping out on March twenty fifth and I’m happening a guide tour to speak about it and the present state of journey! That is my first guide tour in six years and I’m very excited to

Backpacking Europe is one in every of my favourite issues to do as a traveler. There isn’t a yr I don’t criss-cross the continent (besides 2020 when nobody was crossing Europe). In the course of the summer time, hostels burst with life, the Mediterranean sparkles, streets fill with individuals ingesting wine and having fun with

Discovering the cash for journey is among the greatest challenges individuals face with regards to taking a visit. It could take years to avoid wasting up for that dream journey! And, when individuals lastly save up sufficient and hit the highway, what do most of them find yourself doing? They throw cash away on avoidable

“How excessive is that this hike once more?” I requested as I panted up the mountain path, the highest seeming to date off within the distance. “12,0000 ft,” our information Efrain mentioned cheerily as he and the others from the Amazonas Explorers workplace glided up the path. “But it surely flattens out quickly!” he added

After I began backpacking virtually 20 years in the past, there have been no smartphones. That meant you needed to depend on paper maps, bodily guidebooks, and (typically outdated) info from random internet boards. Whereas it made touring adventurous, it additionally made planning a visit very troublesome. Happily, instances have modified. It’s by no means

When folks inform me they hate Bangkok and don’t discover a whole lot of issues to do there, I completely perceive. It’s a love/hate metropolis that most individuals aren’t a fan of on arrival. In actual fact, after I first visited Bangkok in 2006, I despised town and couldn’t wait to go away. It wasn’t

Hong Kong. Its identify evokes visions of a chaotic, jam-packed metropolis with hovering skyscrapers, thick smog, limitless noodle stands, large finance, and wild nights out. It’s one in all my favourite cities on the planet. The quick tempo creates a way of everlasting change, and the crowds, multiculturalism, and meals maintain me repeatedly coming again.

Once I lastly determined to go to Peru, I knew one factor: I wished to hike with the corporate that Mark Adams, my good friend and fellow journey author, used for his e book Flip Proper at Machu Picchu. The tales he shared about his treks and what he discovered on them satisfied me that