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Malaria Travel Guide

By Roadjunky. Filed in: Guides - Travel-Health.

Around 30,000 travelers from the West catch malaria each year.

Every 30 seconds a kid in Africa dies from malaria.

In the 1960’s scientists were confident that ...

Hand to Mouth to India by Tom Thumb - Hitchhiking to India With No Money

By Tom Thumb. Filed in: Editorial - handtomouthtoindia.

When I hitchhiked from England to India in 1997 it took me around four months and I ended up in Goa with about 40 rupees ($1) in my pocket, which was 40 more rupees than I’d had when I’d left ...

Sexy Beijing - Wedding Gone Wild

By Roadjunky. Filed in: RoadjunkyTV - China.

Episode from our favorite Jewish Beijing resident – Su Fei.

Tibet Photo Guide

By Lynne Kennedy. Filed in: Photo Guides - Tibet

The Chinese will tell you Tibet is not a country – we disagree. Tibet has an endangered cultural heritage. Sweeping mountain vistas give you an idea of where that heritage has emerged from.

How Not to Mug a Gringo in Guatemala

By Simon Bidwell. Filed in: Articles - Guatemala.

It was really the Cuban’s fault that I ended up at La Recife in the first place. If he hadn’t come by, I would have walked quietly home and woken up Saturday morning in the intense dry-season sunlight with ...

Morocco Travel Guide Online

By Roadjunky. Filed in: Guides - Morocco.

“Welcome, my friend, a thousand welcomes!” Morocco is the nearest exotic place to most of Europe and is the last foothold of Islam going East. In many ways it’s quite isolated with war-torn Algeria to the West, hostile relations ...

Diffidence, Hospitality and Hitchhiking in Sardinia

By Tom Thumb. Filed in: Articles - Italy.

I arrived in Sardinia on the 1st of May without knowing a soul. I flicked through the guidebooks for a hour in the airport and, remembering none of what I read, arrived in Cagliari to stay with hosts from www.couchsurfing.com

When you couch surf with strangers it’s something of a gamble. You can make a reasonable guess from reading their profile that they’re not actually mean or dangerous or anything ...

Health Map - Diseases and Destinations

By Roadjunky. Filed in: Articles - Travel-Health.

In an age where travelers research their destinations by internet rather than just going there, a new tool has come along to help us worry about what terrible diseases we’ll catch when we jump on the plane.

Health Map a tool used by public health workers is tied into Google News to keep track of the latest outbreaks of all your favourite diseases, bringing preemptive hypochondria to new levels.

Just ...

The Seventh Gate by Peter Greave - Travel Book Reviews

By Roadjunky. Filed in: Articles - Books-and-Movies.

The Seventh Gate is the autobiography of Peter Greave, born in Calcutta in the time of the Raj and he tells his tragic tale with wit and grace that make this one of the best books to come out of British India.

He’s born into a commercial family with a demented but talented father whose capacity for dazzling business success is matched only by his tendency for inviting rapid disaster. ...

Expatriates, retirees and Criminals on the Run - the Expat Index

By Roadjunky. Filed in: Guides - Travel-Ideas.

Maybe you’re looking at retiring early somewhere warm, maybe you want to just relocate somewhere different and discover a new way of life, or maybe you’re on the run from ...