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TRAVELER REPORTS
Travel News For Travel People
With no dark blue scrotum to back him up, Antonio Sanchez soon realizes his small monkey challenger may not be so harmless after all. Read More
When Jessica Hampton got to Japan, she was so dazzled by the cleanliness around her that she immediately did the previously unthinkable in a gesture of trust and international good-will: she used a squatty potty for the very first time. Read More
Conor Grennan enters a country where the first things he reads on the Embarkation Card are: USE BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS.....ONLY BLUE OR BLACK INK.....DEATH PENALTY. Read More
After watching a live bullfight, Richard Arghiris figures Hemingway was full of crap. Read More
David Stephens lists 27 things that will save you cash and let you explore all Perth has to offer. Read More
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If you're planning around the world trip, you'll find plenty of answers to your travel questions, and can read tips and profiles from other round the world travelers.
WHERE NEXT?
New frontiers for modern-day explorers and independent travel
Seventh Stop: East Timor
The newest recognized country in the world, East Timor is not without its problems after genocide killed a third of the population during Indonesia's 25-year occupation. A dual economy serving UN workers and locals exists, but if you can get around it, East Timor offers a glimpse into a country that is just beginning to open to tourism. With the help of ocean oil reserves and beautiful, untouched reefs, expect this country to develop faster than you expect.
Read more about East Timor
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INSIDER INFO - The Secrets to Becoming a Travel Writer
Travel Writer Colin Todhunter shares his tips on how to write a travel narrative.
The next time you visit a bookstore, head for the travel section. You will find hundreds of books by the famous and the not so famous. A proportion will be travelogues, and a proportion of those will be written by lesser known writers, documenting their weird and wondrous travels. The trips that most of us take, if written about, would come across as somewhat boring to the reader but travel writers seem to have wild, roller coaster rides that positively scream to be written about. Most people merely have a "relaxing" and "pleasant" time and nothing much to write home about. What makes the travels of the travel writer so different?
For the rest of Colin Todhunter's Article, read The Secrets to Becoming a Travel Writer
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TRAVEL TALK
A travelers community for ranting and raving about world
Shaving whilst abroad
Tomkeville wants to know what do you do when it comes to shaving? Do you prefer disposables, Mach 3, deadly cutthroat razor, or a beard?
Bali's drug laws: How would you change them?
What do you think should be the law in Bali regarding foreigners importing drugs? What do you think would be a fair sentence/fine for a person caught with a kilo of marijuana, and another with a kilo of heroin? Should they be repatriated and should their sentence then be adjusted to fit with local sentencing guidelines?
I want to go home now
A few weeks into her three-month European tour, Cherie has been treated poorly, overcharged and dealt with feelings of homesickness. How can she get back to enjoying her trip?
Confessing (aka sometimes you just gotta cancel your trip)
Zopa's been to x countries, speaks x languages, lived in x a mile from a UN peacekeeping line but with 800,000 bolivians shouting "CIVIL WAR" in the capital city, she's cancelling the trip she's been planning for months.
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