The beauty of having spent the last 6 years traveling is the friends I've made throughout my journeys abroad- and HOME! My crowd of friends has drastically changed since High School or College. My closest friends go from Italian descendent to Vietnamese to Lebanese to Argentinian to Jamaican. All open minded, we spend our time together discovering new cuisines or activities. This being said, it was my Jamai ...

Off Track Planet is giving away a First Class Global Eurail Pass and a choice of a new FLIP HD video camera or iPod Nano. Sponsored by Eurail.com and Travellerspoint.com. To enter, participants must submit a 1-2 minute video detailing their reasons for being most-qualified to win the prize OTP is offering. The application deadline is March 22, 2010 and a winner will be announced by OTP on April 1, 2010. Par ...

When it comes to a holiday or a vacation, many people resort to the Caribeans and to the most popular beaches around the world. Well below are just a few of the top private beaches around the world. Holbox, Mexico Holbox is part of the most northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. It is known for it’s white sandy, 12 km long beach and to be stunningly quiet. Most people believe this beach is to expensive to v ...

Now when it comes to deciding your backpacking route it can be a little difficult. Well that’s if you have long list of places to see, like me. I have cut down that list to consider a few things before now choosing where to go next. I find with our climate changing consistently you especially need to be aware of what destinations will disappear sooner than others. I am for real about this, check out these a ...

Have you been thinking about going backpacking but don't know where to start? If you are, no worries, because you are part of the thousands of people who have been thinking about it for years now- but who are unfortunately still thinking about it! 1. Choosing your destination and reading about it: The first step is knowing where you want to go and doing some research on your destination. You can choose to r ...

Hey everyone!!! Tanya and I now have been blogging for two months & we love sharing our stories/thoughts of backpacking with you! We would love to receive some feedback from you! You all know how much we love backpacking, so let us know what you think of our site!!! Plus if you enjoy our site, take part and subscribe to our blogroll!! - Nara & Tanya ...

Merry Christmas everyone!!! So today I decide to add a little something different into Tanya's and I's blog.  Tanya is away in the jungle and having the time of her time, well what I hope! As for I , a traditional Christmas morning is on it's way. Oh and yes there is snow !! Love waking up to a white Christmas Morning. Anyways, before I ramble on about Christmas, I do have a family who loves to travel as mu ...

In 2004/05 I backpacked Europe for an entire year. While I was backpacking there were many things I would do and no one would know about. What I mean is, when you are a backpacker you want to save as much money in every possible way. So you work around things that you know you can get away with. A few things every backpacker does, but just doesn’t brag about it. Taking food from hostels to save it for lunch ...

I am still debating what adventure I want to explore so I decided to do some research.  My first choice is Egypt so I started investigating knowing that it will be the most dangerous quest . Out of this research I wandered across some  blogs that mention women traveling Egypt alone. From reading these blogs  I came to the conclusion that not even an experienced women traveler like myself should take the ris ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0jVEFb-dg] "Walking gets too boring When you learn how to fly"   Backpacking is like flying: You never know where you will end up next. When you learn to travel in such a way, it can be difficult to go back to the more traditional (or conservative) way. Most of you are probably wondering how can someone become a backpacker... How do you become a backpacker? You need ...