Tag: Featured
The Numbers Behind the Travel Industry
Did you ever wonder how much bacon tourists eat each year? Or how much urine gets slyly excreted into hotel pools around the world? Check it out!
Contemplating a Career Break on Labour Day?
Labour Day, a North American holiday created to promote work/life balance is here! However, according to a new Gap Adventures Poll, nearly half of Canadians struggle to achieve that balance.
Urban Backpacking Myths
A list of a few of the most famous urban travel legends that are still doing the rounds on the backpacker circuit
Reasons To Go Round-The-World
For many, a round-the-world trip is something that they have always dreamed of and that they will go to any lengths to do. For others, a little more persuasion might be involved to get them to break their routine, plan a route and book their airfare for the trip of a lifetime.
5 Ways to Enrich Your RTW Journey
Check out five simple suggestions that we’ve collected from our favourite bloggers that we feel will enhance your round-the-world journey—providing it with greater depth.
Capturing Liminal Spaces while Travelling
A liminal space is a place of transition, a place of waiting and not knowing. It’s a place that travellers are, no doubt, intimately familiar with! Check out our photos of liminal spaces!
The Whole Picture: Chile’s Cueca
The Cueca, a unique dance form native to Chile, is credited as being the country’s national dance.
Rick Mereki’s Move, Learn, Eat
Filmmaker Rick Mereki took three everyday concepts and turned them into incredible and compelling short films—with travel informing their beauty.
The Whole Picture: Machu Picchu Tilt Shift
This week’s photo incorporates tilt shifting. Tilt-shift style miniature photos are simply photos of real life scenes that are made to look like miniature scale models. This is done using either a special camera lens or with software, instead of a special lens.
Making the Most of a Morning in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the ultimate cosmopolitan city. Almost 40 per cent of Argentina’s 33m citizens live in Greater Buenos Aires, and these ‘porteños’ are justifiably proud of their home.
Lip-smacking South East Asia
South East Asia offers fantastic experiences for all the senses—and it’s what keeps Jeremy Head going back for more. Check out this guest blogger’s favourites!
I love Las Vegas!
You don’t have to spend all day putting your chips down. There’s a surprising number of things to do in Vegas aside from gambling.
Our 7 Links: Seven Blasts from the Past
We’ve learned so much since our very first blog post back in July of 2009. Although we never really know if a post will take off or or fade into obscurity, with a few years of experience we’re now better able to make a much more accurate guess.
The Whole Picture: Newfoundland Root Cellar
Important to many in rural Newfoundland, the root cellars kept vegetables cool, yet frost-free and edible during the long winter months.
How Many Countries Have You Visited?
Whether you’re eagerly waiting for your first passport to be delivered or you could give the most interesting man in the world a run for his money—it’s always a good time to beef up your obituary.
The Whole Picture: Caretaker’s Hut at Machu Picchu
On the funerary plain, overlooking Machu Picchu, stands the Caretaker’s Hut. The hut is one of the few structures in Machu Picchu that has a thatched roof. Open on one side—with three windows looking out to the Urubamba valley below—this is one of the best places in Machu Picchu to get the classic photo of the Lost City of the Incas—and Huayna Picchu looming above!
A RTW trip in three months or less?
Is it possible to do a round-the-world (RTW) trip in three months or less? Jules Verne thought so. But does that make it a good idea?
