How I Met Myself Abroad I didn’t find myself. But I had one hell of an introduction. I’m what you would call an experienced traveler. Like most naive, young things, my first dreams of traveling involved jet setting off with a backpack, shacking up in an Ashram somewhere and finding myself in my very own version of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. Yeah, that didn’t happen. Instead...
The Strangest Thing I Saw On a Plane *Warning* The pictures don’t do this story justice. Frankly, they are rubbish as I didn’t have the presence of mind to take a video. But I just had to write about this anyway because I haven’t read about this anywhere elseI was on the Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Tanzania on November 1st. It had been a long, 20 hour flight...
A Wild Night In The Cappadocian Fairy Chimneys It was a night I’ll never forget.My legs felt like they were on fire and sleep eluded me for the entire night. As far as I could tell, the French guy beside me didn’t get any sleep either. His name was Louis, by the way.During those rare moments when I did start drifting off into sleep, it was just as quickly broken by...
Buddhist Adventures On The Crystal Island of Koh Phangan Thailand was easily the most memorable, tropical country I’ve been to. It has everything you could possibly want in a sunny paradise: beaches, palm trees, parties and breathtaking islands. But that wasn’t why I went backpacking northern Thailand. I went because I wanted to learn more about the country I’d heard...
Looking Beyond The Veil To Discover The World There was a time when we never heard about black backpackers travelling the world and experiencing all of the weird and wonderful things it had to offer. But the tide is turning and a growing number of black travellers are ditching the daily routine of modern life to seek out new adventures. Shadeyka Warren is one such...
5 BEST PLACES TO TRAVEL ALONE IN ASIA I wish I’d known about the best places to travel alone in Asia before I set off on my journey.If I had, my journey would have gone a lot more smoothly. As it happens, I ended up discovering many of the best places quite by accident as I went along. Who knows? Perhaps that was just as well. After all, the greatest adventures are...
Beaches, hot weather and wine. That’s what springs to mind whenever people think of the West Coast. And yes, you’ll find that here alright. But there’s so much more to it than that. In this blog, I’ll tell you exactly why the West Coast rocks, what you should do and what you should not, and most importantly, how to save money while you’re doing it. If you’re putting...
New York City is like no other place on earth. The noise, colours, gigantic neon signs and the scent of street food hit you all at once. There are a million things you can do in New York, but if your time is limited, then I recommend you hop aboard the fun bus long island tour in New York. It will introduce you to some of the most awesome attractions you’re...
The one thing that is standing between explorers and the rest of the world is money. There are so many blogs out there about how you can start your own business or become a freelancer but let’s face it, that’s easier said than done. Not everyone can be the next answer to Richard Branson, and many of the existing freelancer websites pays peanuts at best. The ones I...
I was in Myanmar when we walked into the dorm room. There were many elderly and disabled Burmese men in various states of suffering and the smell of sewage filled the air. The reason for that was because there was one very unwell and severely disabled man who was lying in his own excrement on a bed in the centre of the room. We learned that he had been left like that...
