Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
Soekarno-Hatta Jakarta International Airport
When you Fly into Jakarta and hop off the plane you will first go down a clove cigarette smelling hallway, the visa on arrival booths will be on your right and left (they sort of look like money exchange booths). Try to get off the […]
Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
Travel medical insurance is what you’ll need if you’ll be traveling around a lot. If you are going to become an expatriate and live overseas permanently, then you’ll need some type of permanent insurance.
In many countries, you’ll be able to receive medical services for just a little money, […]
Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
“This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about…”
Rudyard Kipling, Letters from the East (1898)
As Kipling noted, Burma is a rare country in every sense of the word. A journey to the country is akin to traveling in a time machine, transporting the […]
Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
The Intercontinental City Stars Cairo is a hotel situated in the Cairo City Stars complex, which consists of two hotels, an office tower, and the City Centre shopping center. With almost 800 rooms and suites, five restaurants, casino, health club, business center, wireless network and ballroom with […]
Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
This is an older story – but one of our favorites from a trip to Cambodia back before it was a “mainstream” travel destination. We have heard that the boats running from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap are not as regular anymore and sometimes stop completely. But […]
Overseas Life
Living, Working and Traveling the World
Smart Traveler: Cheap Hops in Asia
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/resources/st_air0509/asia.html Low-fare carriers are multiplying in the East.
This is a good article on Cheap Airlines in Southeast Asia from National Geographic Traveler
Reports From the Road
Worldwide Dispatches From Independent Travelers on The Road
I spent a few days fishing off of the cost of Pattaya, Thailand last month with some buddy’s. I was hoping to pull in a gigantic monster of a fish, unfortunately according to our guide fishing has not been so good lately, he thinks it […]
Who is the worst travel writer in the history of traveling?
Favell Lee Mortimer an 18th century author of scary children’s novels and geographic information such as ‘The Countries of Europe Described’, ‘Far Off, Part I: Asia and Australia Described’ and ‘Far Off, Part II: Africa and America Described’ surely takes the prize.
The funny thing is… […]
This article is supposed to be a “Tongue in Cheek” poke at buying gems in Asia and selling them back home for quick cash – don’t take the tone too seriously. But – the advice is still solid, you won’t make money doing this and there is a 99.999% chance that you will get ripped […]
These are some pictures from when I went to Subang Ciater, West Java last year with a buddy of mine to see Tangkuban Perahu – a semi-active Volcano here in Indonesia.
It’s about a 3 1/2 hour drive from Jakarta so we set off around 6am (the earliest I have been awake in 7 months) and […]