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8 Gifts for Travel Photographers (Under $100!) - Travel Junkette Travel and photography go together like peanut butter and jelly. Sure, you can have one without the other, but they’re SO much better together. If you have a travel photographer on your holiday shopping list, here are eight gift ideas that are sure to please (all for under $100!). Extra batteries (varies, $5-$45) 10 Reasons To Travel To Africa : A Budget Backpackers Guide There are so many reasons why we love Africa that it is hard to narrow it down to just 10. Africa is a continent like no other on this planet. The cradle of civilization, the birthplace of mankind and the origin of all species, this is truly where it all began. While backpacking around Africa you can witness the architecture, culture and history with all of your senses. The smell of Swahili cuisine, the sound of the amazing music, the colourful clothing seen throughout the continent, the feeling you get when you spot a lion on safari and the taste of fresh seafood.

How To Sleep On The Street The very first time I had to sleep on the street was in Nice, in southern France. Darkness was approaching and I realized that I needed to find a suitable and safe place to sleep for the night. I spotted a homeless guy along the beach and decided to ask him. “He must know a good place to sleep,” I thought to myself. Perhaps he was too drunk to comprehend my broken French or couldn’t be bothered but he ignored me completely.

Turning Vacations into Adventures-Part II Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Erik D. Kennedy. In Part I, we covered the first two principles of turning vacations into adventures: stay with residents and go easy on the planning. Today we round out the list with three more. The only way to get far quickly is to get out of your comfort zone (my typical day learning Mandarin) One problem with seeing the end-result of any feat, is not understanding the processes that went on to get to that point. As my friend Khatzumoto said to me once; Olympic coverage really ticks me off… you can’t just go up to a person on game day and say how talented they are.

15 Tips for Your First Experience Backpacking in Australia If you’re considering a working holiday in Australia or even an extended backpacking trip, you’re bound to have heaps of things on your mind. Contributing author Lauren Fritsky is based in beautiful Sydney and nails out 15 tips to help make your first experience backpacking in Australia stress-free. Word: Wreck. Definition: Me when I landed in Australia on Jan. 25., 2010. Cathay Pacific Airways deposited me in Kingsford Smith International Airport with no apartment lined up, the bare minimum in savings and two suitcases stuffed with my life. It was hot, I’d lost the address to my hotel and I couldn’t get the SIM card in my prepaid phone to work.

Deciding Where To Travel When trying to plan your backpacking trip, it can be overwhelming. There are so many things to see & do in the world! So, the first thing to establish is WHERE you want to travel. 9 tips about Travel Blogging There are many things I wish I knew about travel blogging before I started. I knew a lot about blogging, but not so much about blogging within the travel niche. Here are nine simple tips I think you need to know about being a travel blogger before you start. The tech stuff you can work out, the mindset obstacles are a little harder to gain victory over. How Travel Blogging For A Living Changes The Way I Travel As I sit here typing this post after 50 minutes of brainstorming and procrastination in a deceivingly modern cafe in Rishikesh, India, I’m reflecting on how my travels have changed over the past 5 years of travel blogging. This city is one of Hinduism’s holiest places and considered the apex of yoga worldwide. The Ganges River flows less than 2 kilometers behind me and I must neglect it for the day, as I take advantage of electricity and bandwidth to write a post overdue for last Friday.

How travel bloggers make money from their blogs This article is based on a talk I’m giving to a group of London Bloggers this week on the ever popular topic of how Travel Bloggers make money from their blogs. I’m giving an overview of some of the main ways that travel bloggers make money and some examples and links that you can explore more thoroughly at your leisure. Content comes first Travel Tips for Planning Your Trip to Thailand I’ve been living in Bangkok, Thailand, for seventeen months now. It’s a big, hot, polluted city—a developed metropolis in the middle of the developing world where ancient tradition meets cutting edge technology. Bald-headed, orange-robed Buddhist monks wander the streets toting the latest iPhones; gray-haired Alabama exports sport handlebar mustaches and transgendered girlfriends; angry rioters blockade major city streets, while next door at the bar locals and expats alike look on with cocktails in hand.

A list of freelancer jobs to travel and work from anywhere Let’s be honest. Staying productive while travelling is not easy. In fact it’s pretty much the biggest challenge you’ll face if you want to live this lifestyle and spend time in places most people only visit on vacation. The last week has been a good reminder that I, too, need to refocus on productivity. Although I managed to stick to clients’ deadlines, I also had way too much fun going rafting, chilling with friends in a jungle lodge in Ecuador and going mountain biking, making it really hard to keep up with this project. 6 Things You Can Start Today to Build A Life Working from Anywhere I recently had the pleasure of speaking at an event in London on the topic of ‘How to Build a Life Working from Anywhere’. The challenge for me was how to distill 7+ years of running my own business, with 5+ years of those being location independent with a fully online business, into just an hour’s talk. I know how it goes with these kinds of talks. People get all fired up to do something, then they go home and…do nothing. Life gets in the way and, more often than not, nothing much changes. So I prepared a a list of 6 key things that you could start doing straight away, no matter what your current situation is…{and they’re in order of priority, in my opinion}

Youth Travel - This article is the fourth in a series of posts explaining how to bring your music on the road and get to travel with it. Read the series’ introduction , Post#1 , Post # 2 and Post #3 picture credit: In the last article of this series I mentioned that a band may decide to book their own tours, by themselves, using their own forces. This is totally right and possible, but is a long, dreary process presenting more than a few risks.