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Backpacking Travel Blog
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Guide and blog that covers New Zealand, the Cook Islands, South East Asia and South America. Containing travel photos, highlights, stories and more.
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Edora – A little Lord of the Ring Adventure
We didn't go for any of the Lord of the Rings tours, instead, quite randomly on the way somewhere else decided to take our little rental car off on a little adventure in search of Edora from the Lord of the Rings, known as Mt. Somers to the locals....
Win an SLR camera & £500 worth of photobox vouchers
Rough Guides have put together a new online game to tie-in with their latest publication- Earthbound: A Rough Guide to the World in Pictures. The online game tests your travel photography knowledge against the clock; look at the photos, guess wher...
Amazon Rainforest Trip in Photos – Part 1
There are many tours running out of Manaus that offer trips out into the Amazon Rainforest. We booked ours before we arrived after a bit of internet research, one selling point being staying on a floating river lodge....
Lacerda lift - Salvador, Brazil - Friday Photo
The fantastic art deco Lacerda lift that descends from Salvador main town down to the harbour area....
Suicide Showers, Living on the edge
Probably not the most endearing feature of backpacking in South America, the suicide shower gets its name for the rather [...]...
Slurp! Snake Drink, Vietnam - Friday Photo
This strong spirit full of small snakes is available all over Vietnam. This photo was taken of some in a market whilst backpacking in Sapa in north Vietnam. The drinks all have different properties, some said to improve sex drive, nice!...


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