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  • The Tourist Stereotype and Why You Should Give a Crap

    The Tourist Stereotype and Why You Should Give a Crap

    The irony is more than a little pronounced. In its most recent campaign, G Adventures—a small group adventure travel company with whom I work—implies that one can shed the ‘tourist’ mantle by choosing to travel with it. So what the hell are they up to?

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    | January 8, 2012 | 3 Comments
  • The Whole Picture: El Castillo at Chichen Itza

    The Whole Picture: El Castillo at Chichen Itza

    El Castillo is a step-pyramid that dominates the centre of the Yucatan’s Chichen Itza site. Built by the pre-Columbian Maya sometime between the ninth and twelfth centuries, El Castillo served as a temple to the god Kukulkan, a Mayan deity that resembled a feathered serpent.

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    | January 4, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • The Women of San Pedro Market

    The Women of San Pedro Market

    At Cusco’s Sand Pedro market, you can enjoy a first-hand look at how locals live day-to-day outside the confines of Cusco’s tourist areas. Get off the beaten path a little bit and head to the market for a truly Peruvian experience. And bring lots of film—or make sure that you have abundant space on your memory card. It’s very photogenic.

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    | January 3, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • 2011: The Year in Review

    2011: The Year in Review

    Happy New Year! We hope that as you read this you’re full of all kinds of inspiration and motivation for the year ahead. To close out 2011 (and look ahead to 2012), we’re reviewing some of our blogging accomplishments, our highlights and, moreover, taking a moment to thank our readers!

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    | January 2, 2012 | 2 Comments
  • The Whole Picture: Top of Bartolome

    The Whole Picture: Top of Bartolome

    With a total land area of just 1.2 sq km, the tiny islet of Isla Bartolome offers some of the most beautiful and strangest landscapes in the Archipelago.

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    | December 19, 2011 | 1 Comment

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The Tourist Stereotype and Why You Should Give a Crap

The Tourist Stereotype and Why You Should Give a Crap

The irony is more than a little pronounced. In its most recent campaign, G Adventures—a small group adventure travel company with whom I work—implies that one can shed the ‘tourist’ mantle by choosing to travel with it. So what the hell are they up to?

The Whole Picture: El Castillo at Chichen Itza

The Whole Picture: El Castillo at Chichen Itza

El Castillo is a step-pyramid that dominates the centre of the Yucatan’s Chichen Itza site. Built by the pre-Columbian Maya sometime between the ninth and twelfth centuries, El Castillo served as a temple to the god Kukulkan, a Mayan deity that resembled a feathered serpent.

2011: The Year in Review

2011: The Year in Review

Happy New Year! We hope that as you read this you’re full of all kinds of inspiration and motivation for the year ahead. To close out 2011 (and look ahead to 2012), we’re reviewing some of our blogging accomplishments, our highlights and, moreover, taking a moment to thank our readers!

Articles

The Women of San Pedro Market

The Women of San Pedro Market

At Cusco’s Sand Pedro market, you can enjoy a first-hand look at how locals live day-to-day outside the confines of Cusco’s tourist areas. Get off the beaten path a little bit and head to the market for a truly Peruvian experience. And bring lots of film—or make sure that you have abundant space on your memory card. It’s very photogenic.

Hackpacking: Make a Rubber Band Travel Clothesline

Hackpacking: Make a Rubber Band Travel Clothesline

Unless you’re willing to over-pack, or spend valuable time in laundromats, you’ll want to wash some items in your hotel room sink. But, how to dry?

2011 Gift Guide for Round-The-World Travellers

2011 Gift Guide for Round-The-World Travellers

It’s starting to look a lot like—well, you know — a time for many fun holiday-season traditions. And one of the most traditional of all is our annual Holiday Gift Guide, now in its second year.

Reviews

Cheap Trick: A review of Tim Leffel’s ‘World’s Cheapest Destinations’

Cheap Trick: A review of Tim Leffel’s ‘World’s Cheapest Destinations’

For the round-the-world traveller who is planning an adventure, Leffel’s book will prove to be a good tool and a good jumping-off point.

Up The Yangtze

Up The Yangtze

Yung Chang handles the subject with insight and poise. This documentary is a must-see for anybody contemplating a trip to the mainland.

Panasonic’s Lumix GF1—a great all-around travel camera

Panasonic’s Lumix GF1—a great all-around travel camera

Kathyrn and I had—for a while now—been considering a new camera—one that we can bring along with us on our round-the-world trip. We’d been looking for something that was portable without having to sacrifice the bells and whistles of a traditional DSLR.

Looking Back

Looking Back: On Returning Home

Looking Back: On Returning Home

May you laugh, may you laugh, like hail falling on a tin roof, may you laugh.

Looking Back: Korean Homesick Blues

Looking Back: Korean Homesick Blues

Where’s my passport? I need it to reclaim my fingerprints that they’ve sequestered at the immigration office so I wouldn’t smudge the windows that they’ve polished to keep me out.

Looking Back: The Deepest Need For Maps

Looking Back: The Deepest Need For Maps

Without a tether, without an anchor to your bed back home. You move. You have no need for memories. You have the deepest need for maps.

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Hawaii: A State of Grace

Hawaii: A State of Grace

| December 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

The floral-infused air kisses your face, the roar of waves fills your ears, and your eyes can’t find one spot in which to rest upon as the landscape before you offers a plethora of stunning views. Exhale. You’re in Hawaii.

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Find a home away from home with Wimdu

Find a home away from home with Wimdu

| December 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

If you’re comfortable staying someone’s home while traveling or opening your own door, Wimdu is a service that connects travellers with locals renting rooms—at rates well below nearby hotels.

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Earth

Earth

| November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments

Enormous and minuscule. Raw and refined. Widespread and intimate.

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Tourist Season Ends Today

Tourist Season Ends Today

| November 7, 2011 | 3 Comments

G Adventures declares an end to ‘Tourist Season’ today and has launched a global campaign dubbed ‘You’ll Never Forget It’. Coinciding with the introduction of its 2012 brochure lineup, the campaign features a website—and an international search for the new faces of the tour operator’s 2013 brochures.

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Central America

Central America

| November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

I’m not a tourist. I don’t have matching luggage. I don’t do all-inclusive. Nobody leaves a mint on my pillow. It’s not about the getting there .It’s about the being there. This is the final of eight promotional videos that we produced in-house for G Adventures as part of our new campaign. Hope you enjoyed [...]

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North America

North America

| November 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

Explore North America. The spiritual home of rock & roll, the milkshake and the drive-in movie! This is the seventh of eight promotional videos that we produced in-house for G Adventures as part of our new campaign. It’s not every day you get to open up a brand-new continent, so forgive us if we’re a [...]

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Asia

Asia

| November 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

No easy-sip lids. No paper sleeves. No triple-half-cap-venti whatever. They don’t have free wi-fi at this location. They don’t have wi-fi, period. I just updated my status to “Culture-shocked.” This is the sixth of eight promotional videos that we produced in-house for G Adventures as part of our new campaign. Exotic. Mysterious. Mesmerizing. These are [...]

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