Destinations

By sally-annephillips | views [0] | Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Tayrona National Park

By sally-annephillips | views [4] | Wed, 22 Feb 2012
The Tayrona National Park is a beautiful area less than 40 kilometres from Santa Marta, Colombia. It is a simple matter to get a group car or a local bus to the entrance of the park, where you purchase the entry ticket. When I arrived there were only 12 people ahead of me in line, but it took half ... Read more >
 

By me | views [11] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012
It all started with my mobile phone hiding under my bedside stand. My alarm blared but I was unable to locate it without getting out of bed, walking across my room to turn on the light and then switching the annoying sound off. I stood in my room, thoroughly unimpressed and said to God, “Right I’m ... Read more >
 

By simonehawkins | views [27] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012
Ola!!!!! So fab a fabulously long and loud night at the final parade night! The floats are just out of this world with plenty a bum out I show as well! And yeah, last and final night of parade saw the first of the 'tops off' for the ladies on the floats! And again, we're in the 2000's people, there ... Read more >
 

By lucyandtim | views [0] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012

By lucyandtim | views [0] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012
Valdivia and Pucon, Chile

By lucyandtim | views [12] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012

Welcome back to The World in a Nutshell! We left Barriloche mostly as planned - if we had planned to start nearly two hours late thanks to bus delays - and arrived in Valdivia, Chile, with little in the way of drama. The bus ride provided us with some more beautiful scenery and the odd stop at immigration ... Read more >
 

By oryxx | views [0] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012

By oryxx | views [0] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012

By oryxx | views [11] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012
When I was first teaching in Thailand, there was a British guy in my school called Martin.  Martin came from Newcastle, was tall and thin, and had travelled around South East Asia with a kettle so he could make a proper cuppa (and before anyone rolls their eyes at this ridiculous British need ... Read more >
 

By oryxx | views [8] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012
When I was here over Chinese New Year on my own, I thought that that would be the hardest time and when other students came and things got back into a routine, things would be easier, but that wasn’t the case at all.  Although I was alone a lot over the New Year, I was never actually lonely.  Once ... Read more >
 

By me | views [40] | Tue, 21 Feb 2012

The last couple of months have included some big decision making. While I was in Australia I applied for a teaching position at Logos International School , a Christian missionary school located in Phnom Penh Thmey catering for local (both those who can afford it and those on scholarships) as well ... Read more >
 

By rachthe1st | views [0] | Mon, 20 Feb 2012

By courtneyjane411 | views [12] | Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Well, suddenly, we are already to our last day together here in Europe. Tomorrow, Connor flies to Barcelona to spend two more nights before returning home to the States. Then I begin Part II of "the amazing program," going to visit friends in London, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. We've ... Read more >
 

By vagabonds | views [8] | Mon, 20 Feb 2012

On the surface Matera seems to be a new (for Italy) town, built in the 1960s.  But there is an old town where any building could date back to the 8th Century, or earlier.  We had the slippery, narrow streets and steep stairways to ourselves on this drizzly morning.  The only other activity came from ... Read more >
 
Old town from above, Matera

By pamelachin | views [4] | Mon, 20 Feb 2012

Kuala Lumpur LCCT (KUL) to New Delhi (DEL)   Depart Kuala Lumpur International Airport (LCC Terminal) (KUL) at 17:15 Arrive in India Gandhi international Airport, Terminal 3 (DEL) at 20:40 Wednesday, 23 Mar 2011    Flight D7 2506 ... Read more >
 

By henrika_traveller | views [13] | Mon, 20 Feb 2012
I have spent a past few days pretty much in a hotel room. My poor stomach is not adjusting Indian food not that I have eatan much for the past few days anyway but I ran out of energy and all could do was to sleep. Fortunately I was in places for one reason like safari and not much else to ... Read more >
 

By hannah_white | views [8] | Mon, 20 Feb 2012
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By simonehawkins | views [52] | Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Soooo what a day!!!!!! I leant not to expect to travel anywhere during carnival!!! What should of been a 20 minute job took about 3 and a half hours..... Traffic and Rio madness crept in to sort that! But, on the up side, no need to pay for a trip into the fevela's..... We went fraught through them.... Read more >
 

By projecttravel | views [465] | comments [1] | Sun, 19 Feb 2012

Whenever the travel writing profession is mentioned, romantic images of destination hopping, endless days of exploring, and breezy evening sitting in cafes writing up all the adventures immediately spring to mind. But is what is the  reality? Our 2012 Rough Guides mentor, Richard Lim, shares ... Read more >