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I stayed at BoutiQuito Hostel in Quito for a few nights, went away to Laguna Quilotoa for a...
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Oh, what a wonderful experience it was! The first time I was able to climb about 300 feet...
“It was a summer, when two young Russian guests came to our Ani&Haakien Hostel in Rotterdam to do...
I arrived in Berlin after a confusing train ride and was happy to be just a few subway...
My daughter and I were pilgrims recently on the Camino de Santiago. Typically, pilgrims have a pilgrim’s passport...
Yawning, we stumbled off the night train, stepping foot on new territory: Berlin. It was inevitable that we...
I don’t like licorice. It tastes weird, also it’s sticky and doesn’t look nice. In the subway station...
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It was only my intention to stay for one night at the Bus Hostel Reykjavik, but when my...
We left Swakopmund, Namibia early in the morning and drove out to the dunes with the sand boards....
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My daughter and I spent a week in Paris together with my cousin and a work friend. We...
Absolutely petrified. That’s one way of describing my anxiety before jumping out a plane at 15,000 feet. But...
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I arrived at Siarliai, a small Lithuanian town by bus to look at the „hill of crosses“. I...
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The Russian mafia had a gun pointed at the owner. Trouble is usually found when I get feisty...
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I cannot imagine myself in a more awful yet interesting place than Varanasi. It is one of the...
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I arrived in Luang Prabang feeling exhausted and very unhappy with Laos. In the last couple of weeks...
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I live in Fullerton, California and attend CSUF with my friends. None of us knew each other before...
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I’ve travelled to Italy several times with my parents as a child but until now, haven’t returned by...
Nicaragua was not kind to me. My luggage was delayed, I had a violent bout of food poisoning....
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They say that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. When you walk the...
I can feel the snowflakes softly falling from the sky. They land gently on the tip of my...
On my first evening at BoutiQuito Hostel, another guest was drinking wine in the common area, and offered...
Prior to my stay at the Happynest Hostel, one of the best hostels in Chiang Rai, I had...
No transport, no rush! Hitchhiking: the golden answer to budget travel! It doesn’t cost a dime plus you...
This was it. What was I thinking? “Stephanie, you have never climbed a mountain in your life, never...
When we headed over to Japan we wanted to totally immerse ourselves in this wonderful country we had...
“Which photo do you like? I have the most beautiful posters from all over Spain, at the very...
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It was whilst standing staring at the golden sand of the bull ring in the city of Sevilla,...
I stared out the window as the bus crossed the state that had the most pride. I tried...
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I woke at 5.30am to get to Baños and took a 10 hour bus on a bendy road...
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One day last year our friends asked us if we would like to meet them in Thailand (we...
When I visited Botswana in hope to get close and personal with Elephants, I certainly got my wish....
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I arrived in Bruges late at night and I could not understand my map. I therefore couldn’t find...
I love to think back and getting reminded about my travels in Palestine. It was highly interesting to...
There is always noise in Cuba. In the countryside cockerels crow and dogs bark, in cities drivers honk...
The taxi dropped me off at the Ostello Villa Olmo, a youth hostel in Como, Italy. Sore after...
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On our bus-ride from Luang Prabang to Vientiane, Laos a truck blocked the entire road and no vehicles...
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After our Freedom Trail tour, we wandered around China Town in Boston in search of our next thing...
We’ve all heard about the kindness of strangers, but you’ll never experience it in quite the same way...
We arrived in Lanquín, Guatemala after being packed like sardines on an 8-hour bus trip from Tikal. The...
It was four in the morning, my friend and I were driving through endless towns on our way...
Breathtaking. That’s the only word that came to my mind when standing on the hill of crosses in...
Jordan is a strange country. There are big cities, forgotten majestic mausoleums, mountains and depressions, but most of...
We trudged through the streets of sleepy Remedios*, Cuba, our rucksacks feeling heavier under the midday sun. In...
We were walking in the narrow streets of Shibu Onsen, a Japanese village in the mountains near Nagano....
Usually, problems crossing borders involve corrupt officials, visa troubles, or unexpected closures… I’m not sure what the locals...
Full of the crowd, waiting for that moment and then finally click after click… Yes, that was the...
After spending four days in the craziness of Bangkok, we set off on the very long and smelly...
I was studying abroad in Strasbourg, France and wanted to do the travel around Europe and find myself...
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Be careful and judge each situation for yourself! We were warned about the children of Cambodia asking for...
We were visiting Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, surrounded by hundreds of pilgrims all dressed in white. Suddenly we noticed...
As they say in China, you’re not a man if you haven’t been on the Great Wall. In...
We were quietly eating breakfast in the morning sunshine at a picnic table at our Great Ocean Road...
“Lovely lady, let me give you a present from me to you.” I’ll admit me and my friend...
While taking a 20-hour train ride on the perimeter of the Taklimakan desert in northwestern China, I had...
From monkeys climbing on my head to sleeping on train floors to cocktails on top of the world…...
One evening my husband announced that we were going away the next morning. At the departure gate people...
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