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Will you dare to climb Mt. Fuji?

Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan. This enourmous mountain has many panoramic, breath-taking scenes. It is constantly changing shape due to the volcanic activities that take place underneath it’s surface. Mt. Fuji is not only beautiful from the outlook [...]

Celebrating Christmas Abroad

If you’re growing bored of the same old Yuletide traditions of over eating bland food, visiting the in-laws, bad cracker jokes, and the horrible dirty grey-brown colour that seems to dominate outside in December, how about considering Christmas in a different location this [...]

Top 5 Reasons Why Hostels Rock

Top 5 Reasons Why Hostels Rock Like the people that populate them, hostels come in all different shapes and styles. While many hostels now offer private rooms as well as dorms, the principal definition of a hostel is found in [...]

Traveling Green

By default, backpacking and staying in hostels is already a fairly green way of travelling. Being on a budget implies that you don’t waste resources and backpackers tend to travel by bus or train and not by plane and will [...]

The Art Of Booking A Hostel

Sometimes hostelling feels like a battle. There’s the enforced marching with heavy packs, the rationing of food, low standards of hygiene and, all too often, cramped and cheerless sleeping quarters. To assist you with fighting the war against travel fatigue [...]

What is a boutique hotel and hostel?

If you are a savvy traveller you might have noticed that the term Boutique Hotel and Hostel is popping up here and there. It used to be a word favourised by Americans, especially in New York and Miami, but has [...]

10 tips to pick a suitable Hostel

So you have decided to travel; and you have decided on a hostel rather than a hotel. The big question here is how you know which hostel to choose and which to avoid. Most of the tips I have mentioned [...]

Youth Hostels History: A Little Insight : )

There’s a little saying that goes: “You can’t get to where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been.” In the same light, you can’t really appreciate a youth hostel unless you know all about the youth hostel’s history. In [...]

Travelers: Get your story here

Your bus journey to Grandma involved a strange encounter? Rad! Tell us about it! You and your friends survived a cataclysmic event? Insane! Tell us more! You didn’t get to where you thought you would, but that place you been [...]

Hostellers: Get your story here

Your region has an unusual reputation or a fantastic history? Rad! Tell us about it! Your hostel survived a cataclysmic event? Insane! Tell us more! You didn’t do what you thought you would, but that thing you did changed your [...]