Travel Stories from Around the World
What would traveling be worth without the stories to tell? Road Junky brings you only the most entertaining tales - from getting high in the Himalaya to chance encounters in New York City.
Browse our latest, then read and get inspired. You will not be disappointed! OR click for stories by continent.
City of Ghosts - World Movie Reviews
City of Ghosts is set in Cambodia and is an offbeat, quirky treasure of a movie.
Ostensibly the story of an insurance scheme scammer who goes looking for some answers in ...
Hand to Mouth to India - Chapter 2
Round the Bend to Vienna (Germany, Austria)
I eventually got my rides into Germany and slept through each of them. I often get picked up by people who need ...
Stranded Behind a Violent Peruvian Strike
‘Abre la puerta! Abre la puerta!‘
The sound of rocks crashing against the walls of the hotel filled the unlit dining room with tension. I dropped my spoon in ...
Quilombo Country - World Film Reviews
Quilombo Country is that dubious creation, a documentary made with an agenda. On the first page of the press release we’re told twice that the film is narrated by the ...
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - World Film Reviews
The original comic had a style of its own with minimalistic drawings in a monochrome blue and the movie made from it is faithful to the original text and ...
The Panamanian Ambassador Complains and I Get Sacked from the Tokyo Notice Board
Some years ago after a stint of selling fake Rolex watches in Tokyo, I got a job wring a column for a little free listings magazine called the
One Life to Ride by Ajit Harisinghani - Travel Book Reviews
From the moment I saw the secondary title A Motorcycle Journey to the High Himalayas I had a feeling what I might be in for. Indian English is renowned for ...
About to Drive From the US to Costa Rica
People keep telling me it’s suicide. They insist that I’ll be kidnapped or encounter a gang of carjackers or rot in jail after cops frame me with a bag ...
Italian Cooking Just Aint That Good
Tell someone that you’re going to live in Italy and the first thing they’ll probably do is lick their lips and say ‘Ooh, pizza, spaghetti, all that good food!’, followed ...
"Hand to Mouth to India" - Hitchhiking to India With No Money - Chapter One
I walked out one midsummer’s morning to hitchhike to India with no money at all. I had with me my clarinet, a sleeping bag, a ticket for the boat to ...
Arrested in China and Facing 6 Months in A Chinese Prison
April 19, 2006
The gate of thick steel bars clanged shut behind me, followed by a second solid metal door behind it. Clicking heels on cold tiles echoed down ...
Sacha Cohen - Culture Hero
Sacha Cohen a.k.a Ali G a.k.a Borat a.k.a camp fashion guy is one of the greatest clowns of our time, exposing the holes in our culture with his brilliant impersonations ...
Road Junky Letters - Australia Aint Dangerous!
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you in response to your list/article I stumbled onto Ten Reasons Not to Travel in Australia, the World’s Most Dangerous Country I have lived ...
Promises - the Voices of Israeli and Palestinian Kids
Promises is a film to make you laugh and cry in equal proportions as the filmmakers take you on a journey of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of the ...
The End of the Road (almost) in Sardinia, Italy
After 13 years of nonstop traveling I recently decided to try and find somewhere to call home. Being British it made sense to me to choose somewhere in Europe where ...
10 Ways to Assimilate and Integrate with a Foreign Culture
Any Road Junky who doesn’t want to be a culture vulture needs to get out of their mindset and really get to grips with the culture they’re traveling in. So ...
101 World Culture Shocks
World culture becomes increasingly homogenized with each passing year but there’s still enough diverse instances to prove that ancient anthropological truth best summarized by Obelix: these humans are crazy. ...
Road Junky Letters - More on Drink and Drugs in the Phillipines
And we thought our readers were all innocent Gap Year kids ‘doing’ Asia.
Props to the great site man.
I’d just like to say, that being from the Philippines, marijuana is definitely ...
The Clay Pot Fridge is a Boon for the Third World and Travelers in the Sticks
Anyone who’s spent time traveling in the third world knows that one of the biggest obstacles to getting anything done are the power cuts. Everything gets plunged into darkness, your ...
Travel Product Review - Schick Quattro Titanium Trimmer
Vogelsang Mountain High Life
Somewhere high in the mountains under a curtain of doom, I embarked on a journey of mythological proportions. This journey would prove to be a test of ...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt – Travel Book Reviews
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a portrait of Savannah, an isolated town in Georgia where John Berendt, a journalist from New York found himself by chance ...
"Jakarta Should be on Worst 10 Ciites List"
When we’re too lazy to write any original content we let our readers do it for us…
Dear editor,
I enjoyed your article on the worst cities in the world a ...
China Tortures Tai Chi Rebels - the Falun Gong Story
Most violent regimes concentrate their persecution against democratic protests, dissident students or armed rebels. Leave it to China to bring a surreal edge to institutional brutality and torture, however. The ...
A Year Teaching English in China
This summer many new graduates will head off to teach English in China, attracted by the 2008 Olympics buzz. Last year, eager for distraction during caffeine-fueled revision, I was one ...
"China Blue", Sweatshops and Jeans - World Film
China Blue is an outstanding and tragic documentary that will make you never want to wear a pair of jeans again.
Micha Peled’s film was shot secretly inside a Chinese ...
Singapore isn't a Police State, Apparently...
Some people hate Road Junky and we just love to hear from them. Take this reader who thinks we were mean to Singapore when we included it in our
Morocco - No Country For Young Women?
On my first full day in Morocco, I briefly thought I was being thrown off a cliff. It was a most unfortunate, and terrifying, misunderstanding: My ´guide` thought it would ...
The Bus Busker in Latin America: All the Road's a Stage
In Latin America the bus is king, holding the place occupied by the automobile in North America or the train in Europe. More than the dominant form of transport, it’s ...
Death Road in Bolivia
Three more mountain bikes come jolting down the dirt road and skid to a halt beside the eleven other riders who have already stashed their cycles by the roadside. Filthy ...
Crazy Borders on the Panamericana Highway
Moral of the story: it’s not the brightest idea to leave yourself two days to travel overland from southern Colombia to northern Peru. Departing from the Colombian city of Popayán, ...
How Not to Mug a Gringo in 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 ...
Eastern Spirituality for Sale in Vanity Fair
When I was younger I thought that the Western world was lacking in spirituality. I was reading plenty of books about the East at the time and deduced that our ...
Diffidence, Hospitality and Hitchhiking in Sardinia
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 ...
Health Map - Diseases and Destinations
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 ...
The Seventh Gate by Peter Greave - Travel Book Reviews
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 ...
