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anyone up to hop from st petersburg all the way to vladivostok in september / october last year i hopped / hitchhiked from st petersburg to irkutsk with a friend (little over 6000 km) and then went down to mongolia.. this year i want to stick mostly to trainhopping and go all the way to...

Maybe a long shot, but i thought i'd try anyway. Has anyone had experience traveling or squatting in china? I'm presently working on learning Chinese, so this goal is a little ways off, but i'd love to travel and study in china for a year or so at least. Anyone have experience living in this...

Those planks... woah!!! http://www.viralnova.com/dangerous-trail-huashan/ This Might Be The Scariest Trail In The World. But You’ll NEVER Guess Where It Leads. Unbelievable. January 6, 2014 Stories We hope you’re not afraid of heights, because this even made our palms sweat. What you see below...

China’s Ghost Cities Since the autumn of 2012 I’ve been traveling around China documenting the so-called ghost city phenomenon and issues resulting from and causing a drastic rush to develop macro-infrastructure. This series is the result of my ongoing investigations about the places that have...

has anyone been to Vietnam recently and applied for a visa. I want to know roughly how much a visa costs. the info I'm finding online is sketchy and ranges from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars. don't wanna get ripped off. any Info would be awesome. thanks.

Should have looked abit more around the site before posting, feel free to delete my "introduction"-post mods, if you find it necessary. Just thought this should be in this section instead of the intro-section. Hey guys; thrilled to see sites like this actually exist and thrive in these...

I am currently thinking about getting a little boat and going as far down the Yangtze as I can stand. I'll have a 1 year work/residency permit with likely 9 months left on it. But jail in China kinda scares me, especially in some of the more rural places along the Yangtze. Can anyone offer any...

I'm currently in China teaching English. I'm bored though. I want to go around and find work in different city's/countries for a while. I've already got work setup in Thailand I think and I'm heading that way in about a week. Does anyone have any experience hitching in SEAsia or trying to find...

Stuck in Mumbai for the next month or so, then hopping freights as much as possible around the country. If anyone is around PM me. If you don't hear back from me I'm in jail.

Ok, ok so i just watched 7 years in tibet again for the umteenth time, but my curiosity remains. Has any body? thought?? been??? I hear that eastern and asain cultures its considered a prestigious, honorable and legitimate occupation to bum the world . . .

ok... well I'm still in Indo, I just hitched from bandung all the way to the border to east timor, only to find out that Immagration fucked up my passport and I've now overstayed a month becuase they didn't stamp it, the fine for that is 6,000,00 rp, which I don't have. If I say longer than...

hey im in cambodia right now and was wondering if anyone was either in the area or heading this way and wanted to meet up and travel. if your interested just send me an email at thethingswecarried@gmail.com

anyone heard of the taglit birthright trip? it's for straight up jews and mutts (you've gotta have some sort of tie to israel) who wanna visit the homeland. basically it's this: an all-expenses paid ticket to israel from either LA or NY, with an option to extend your return flight ticket up to...

Just putting it out there, flying into Bangkok end of November. Will be headed to Chiang Mai and various points north then to Cambodia. If anyone has contacts of other punx, travellers, not yuppy backpackers, i am in the market for some places to crash. Will probably end up in Indonesia and...

I'm heading to Japan in six months (so, February) with another partner and my dog. Does anyone know how spanging/busking is over in Japan? And how long you can stay in Japan, or until you at least get a job. I'd like to travel there for just a while, then actually get a job and live there. But...

ok.. after months of info gathering............ P.s Utara is north, Selatan is south, barat is west, timor is east an tengah is central(ut, sel, bar, tim, teng(ten)). MAL stands for Malaysia, Sul stands for sulawesi, sum stands for sumatra Kal stands for kalimantan. E.G Sumut = north sumatra...

How's squatting, hitchhiking, and dumpsters in Japan? Apparently, you can't legally live in the country without a 2 year degree from an American college, but I'm not sure about the penalty if you're caught past the allowed visiting period (6 months, if I can remember correctly). Anybody been...

:crew: Ok... so I've been trying to get by land to India for a while, and finally I've come up with a proper plan. No more will my trips end up sleeping in Slovenian train stations without even the money for a coffee! Basically, I'm going to do an intensive driving course in January, buy an old...

Hello! I'm finishing a volunteer placement in Indonesia in March, and would like to travel around south east Asia for a couple of months. I'd rather travel with somebody than alone. I'd also like to travel as nomadically as possible (hitchhiking, couchsurfing, etc.) but am flexible. I have some...

I ll be in tibet in 2 weeks. Do anybody know the way to get in from china, without this fucking special permit, wich is expensive, hard to find, and even not good toilet paper? Do anybody know how much you pay when chinese pigs check you undocumented?

I have been contemplating this trip for a long time now. If anyone here has been before I would really like to talk to you about it. Ideally I would like to go for 3-4 months and spend a lot of that time backpacking. I have been told that these two countries share an open boarder with each other...

I have the opportunity to go to Israel this summer for 2 weeks. I have never traveled internationally and right now I'm doing a lot of research, getting my passport, etc. I'm a little nervous of course - any advice or stories you punks can share with me to inspire me to go through with it?

my buddy just got back from a year and half of teaching in south korea and he said that almost every nite he would hang out by the train tracks and watch the freights go by. he said theyre a bit different than the ones over here, but they run pretty frequently. no boxcars, mostly 48's and...

this is only for the people...... so go to birthrightisrael.com and it explains everything 2 weeks all expenses paid in israel for jews age 18-26 registration is closed for this summer , but you cn apply for next year i'm going this summer and i have friends who've gone on these in past...