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Argentina
- Author: Guy Bristow
Since the collapse of the Peso, Argentina has gone from the most expensive country in South America to one of the cheapest. This has made Argentina into a hot destination for budget travellers for the first time...
Argentina - Climbing Aconcagua
- Author: Alex Stewart
'Felices Navidad!' hollered the voice at the end of the distorted phone line. Irritated at having Christmas lunch disturbed, the family was instantly placated by the sound of my brother's voice coming down a satellite phone from camp one, high on the flank of Aconcagua.
Armenia
- Author: James White
Yerevan – a little slice of California in the Caucasus?

Ten minutes across the border from Georgia into Armenia, my taxi is pulled over by the traffic police. Out steps the archetype of the corrupt police official – big uniform, big hat, big belly. Who knew that being a policeman in provincial Armenia was so lucrative? Our crime, it seems, is that the taxi is Georgian-registered and the driver himself is Georgian...
Australia - Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park
- Author: Marina De Santis
There is nothing I can do about it now. I climbed Ayers Rock (Uluru in Aboriginal) and I wish I hadn't. The red monolith that stands today as one of the most recognisable symbols of Australia is a sacred site to the local Aboriginal people, the Anangu.
Austria – Vienna
- Author: Malgorzata Ross
Returning from holidays it’s nice to bring back memories of places which, whilst not in the “must-see” league, speak more to us than the better known or historically and artistically more important sights. Here are my three from Vienna.
Bangladesh
- Author: Gerhard Buttner
Not that I came only to drink their tea for free, but tea invitations are common in Bangladesh and no payment is allowed by the "guest to my country". The staccato questions might be repetitive: "Your country?", "Your name?", "Your job?", "You married?", "Why not?", "How many brothers and sisters?", "You like cricket?", but the gratitude and pleasure on the faces for friendly replies, return questions and idle chit-chat - and the free tea - is more than enough for me and for them.
Belgium - Bruges
- Author: James White
Day trips in my family tend to take the form of several hours in a hot car on the way to the south coast, followed by 40 minutes wandering aimlessly over sand-dunes as storm clouds gather, and then another couple of hours in the car, in order to arrive back home in a foul temper.
Belgium - Brussels
- Author: Audrey Dufer
Brussels is often described as a boring, untidy and dirty place, but if you take the time you will discover a really amazing and vibrant place. Here are the things that I enjoyed the most about this city…
Bolivia
- Author: Gerhard Buttner
There is a certain appeal in entering a country by the backdoor. Especially if that backdoor is a wide open vast desert with nearly 6,000m-high peaks. The Bolivian border post, was just that, a post with a sign showing only two words on opposing sides - "Bolivia", where we were going, and if you turned round you could see "Chile". The passport stamp came only four days later in the first proper town.
Bolivia
- Author: Dan Weston
I think I fell in love with Bolivia as I watched the bus I'd been travelling on from Peru being ferried across Lake Titicaca on what amounted to a glorified raft. Bolivia's landscape may initially appear harsh and its people stand-offish, but a scratch beneath the surface soon reveals these impressions untrue and this landlocked Andean country inevitably weaves its spell.