Travelling on a budget doesn’t mean you are relegated to staying in one location and limiting your exposure to the country. In fact, far from having to stay confined to one place, backpacking lets you explore the entire country on a limited budget. READ MORE »
Accommodation
Manage Your Budget in a Most Effective Way While Backpacking in Australia and New Zealand, Part 2
Australia and New Zealand are large countries, and the sheer size of Australia will make planning your route all the more important. READ MORE »
Solving the unsolvable
Cozy courtyard of a lodge in Tukuche, Nepal
Continuing the Annapurna circuit trek, I had time to think about supply and demand.
Not being an economist, I saw a few simple conditions for my questions.
There are three towns: READ MORE »
Tap the inventor on the head
I hoped this nightmare only exists in UK and around it. But no!
Water taps in Vietnam
It is in Vietnam also, at least a few hotels. Why on earth do people come up with "inventions" like this? READ MORE »
Anthill hotel
Crazy house, Da Lat, Vietnam
Hang Nga Villa is also called Crazy House. Some devoted avangarde enthusiasts admire it as a real work of art, although to us it seemed little bit kitschy. Every country has one of those "out of the box" architects - in Sintra, Portugal - Baron von Eschwege, in Barcelona, Spain - Gaudi, and obviously here, in Dalat - Madam Nga.
To make it absolutely clear, it is a house with rooms, ment to use as a hotel. Well, it is a hotel. If all the houses in town would look like this, we'd be living in an anthill now. READ MORE »
