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Author: Guy Bristow
Date: 1 February 2004
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...
Australia - Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park
Author: Marina De Santis
Date: 1 September 2002
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...
Author: Gerhard Buttner
Date: 1 July 2002
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...
Author: Dan Weston
Date: 1 November 2005
I think I fell in love with Bolivia as I watched the bus I'd been traveling on from Peru being ferried across Lake Titicaca on what amounted to a glorified raft. Bolivia's landscape may initially appear...
Author: Gerhard Buttner
Date: 1 September 2001
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...
Author: Alex Stewart
Date: 1 September 2001
Escaping to Rio is a travel fantasy. The city is possessed of a potency which frightens many, but affects all. Its inhabitants, known as "Cariocas", personify the phrase "carpe diem", as life here is to be consumed, not observed. The solution: abandon your ideas of efficiency, rationality and timekeeping and give...
Author: James Innes Williams
Date: 22 November 2006
I first came to Canada to paddle down the Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories. We flew into our starting point, just south of the Arctic Circle, in a DeHavilland Single Otter Sea-Plane. Landing...
Author: Angus Lee
Date: 6 June 2007
When I first arrived in Beijing the first thing that struck me was the pollution and the haziness of the skies. My dad and I hailed a taxi at the airport - my first chance to practice my basic Chinese. Luckily the driver seemed to understand what I was I was saying however if you can’t speak any of the language I advise you...
Author: Gerhard Buttner
Date: 1 September 2001
"Why do you want to go to Colombia?", asked everybody incredulously. Apart from the fact that I want to go everywhere which is reason enough for me ("because it's there", as they say), there are more...
Author: Matt Godfrey
Date: 1 May 2001
On the outskirts of the sleepy little beach town of Baracoa, in semi-tropical eastern Cuba, there is a chocolate factory. The local delicacy, somewhat bizarrely called Peter's, is produced there - as all the guidebooks will inform you. What most of them don't say is that this factory was inaugurated by none other than 'El Che' himself...
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