Before some of you start sending me death threats in the comments section (as nearly happened for Why I don’t like Laos) know this: I don’t hate Cuba. Nobody mistreated me there or mugged me […]
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here are my Best Travel Experiences of 2019
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What it’s Like for a Digital Nomad in Bucharest Romania After six years of living and traveling as a digital nomad, I’ve come across some great places to pause for a few months to work.
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Escaping Tourist Crowds in New York City So many travel articles will tell you that New York City is the place to go, but not very many articles will (and can) show you just how
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Best Travel Moments of 2018 2018 was another fantastic year of travel. I made about 10 trips in all – some long, some short. I feel incredibly grateful for the opportunities I have to see
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Why I’m going to Tunisia When I tell people I’m going to Tunisia, many respond by either asking where it is or asking why I’m going there. While it isn’t a very popular tourist destination
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Hiking in the Canadian Rockies Reminded me of what’s Important Why you should put your phone down and do something awesome A couple months ago I bought a way-too-expensive plane ticket to go someplace I had
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Beyond the Carpathians: Travels in Ukraine’s Transcarpathia Region Journey from the Carpathians to Mukachevo and Uzhgorod In Yasinya I got an 11:55 bus bound all the way to Mukachevo. So I decided then, that’s where
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My first photo exhibition is now up in Anchorage, AK. Most of my readers won’t be able to make it so I’m putting part of the show online here at Bohemian Traveler. I wanted to
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Why Myanmar is the best place to travel in Southeast Asia I recently went back to Myanmar for the second time. Now, even more so than the first time, I am convinced that Myanmar is
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Kathmandu in Photos Most people associate Nepal with mountains. Rightly so. The Himalaya stretch over 2400 km through 5 countries and include 10 of 14 of the world’s 8000-meter peaks. Nepal is right in the middle
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Why I’m Going to Myanmar (Again) In the fall of 2013, I went to Myanmar. Only a few days before that, I had found out that Dustin Main, the voice behind the blog A Skinny Escape,
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11 Reasons to Love Lesvos Greece As I traveled around the Greek Island of Lesvos, one story kept resurfacing. That of the foreign tourist who’s been coming to this island so long, they no longer consider themselves outsiders.
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What You Need to Know about Traveling in Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan is a small, mountainous country in Central Asia. Its landlocked territory is home to the semi-nomadic Kyrgyz people as well as other ethnic groups. Summers here
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Pennsylvania Face-off: Pittsburgh vs Philadelphia As noted in the recent Craft Beer in Pennsylvania: East vs West article, the state of Pennsylvania has an east-west rivalry that goes beyond beer. The state’s two biggest cities,
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Nepal via Instagram Travel in Nepal is an awakening of the senses. You can’t smell the incense or freshly-ground spices wafting out of shops or battle through the dusty streets of Thamel without being here
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Why I’m going to Kyrgyzstan The small Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan has a lot of good things going for it. Unfortunately, it’s relatively remote and obscure. They can’t change their location so it’s their obscurity they’re trying to
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Nepal: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — A Realistic Look at Traveling in Nepal This post continues in the series I started with The Philippines: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
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Getting off the beaten track in Venice Making Sense of Venice with all the Tourists Some people think Venice has a tourism problem– as in, too many tourists. Destinations like Venice risk becoming too popular for their
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On a cold night in January 1968, 31 North Korean spy commandos cut through the most heavily fortified border in the world. Undetected by South Korean military personnel, they moved by foot through the night,
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Why I’m Going to Lesvos Greece Over the past couple years, the Greek Island of Lesvos has been a central story of the Syrian refugee crisis. Located close to Turkey, the island has been used
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While many of us think only of crystal clear waters and white sand beaches when we hear Jamaica, there is so much more to this island than sunbathing. If you want to see the local
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Andong Hahoe Folk Village Andong Hahoe Folk Village is one of the best places in Korea to experience a traditional village. Although it has become popular with tourists, it has maintained its traditional architecture and
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Memories of my Mongolia Gobi Trip About 15 kilometers outside of Ulaanbaatar, at a seemingly insignificant spot, we turned off the road and followed a set of faint tire tracks. We wouldn’t drive on another
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