Without Return Ticket: A Backpacking Adventure

A backpacking trip with no predetermined plans, without return ticket and open to any adventure... gradually also becomes a journey into their protagonist thoughts and emotions. This is the compilation of his travel diary in an Internet blog, from where hundreds of people were following his adventure in real time week after week. Malaysia, Thailand and Oman were the countries visited for 8 long months, in which, how could it be otherwise, happened hundreds of things... from finding work in a paradise island, to spending few days on meditation in a Buddhist temple or being driving Quads through the dunes of the desert, to put a few examples. If you want to know the details, you just have to start reading. Do not forget to comment when finished reading it! Whether you liked it or not ... That way future readers will get a better idea of the contents of the book before purchasing.

Without Return Ticket: A Backpacking Adventure

Lonely Planet The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet

Every country in the world, in one guidebook: Lonely Planet delivers the first guide to The World.

We've taken the highlights from the world's best guidebooks and put them together into one 960-page whopper to create the ultimate guide to Earth. This user-friendly A-Z gives a flavour of each country in the world, including a map, travel highlights, info on where to go and how to get around, as well as some quirkier details to bring each place to life. In Lonely Planet's trademark bluespine format, this is the ultimate planning resource.

Lonely Planet The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet

World's Best Cities: Celebrating 220 Great Destinations

Delving into the heart and soul of more than 225 cities around the globe, The World's Best Cities is a glossy, glorious tribute to cosmopolitan life. In photos and words, this irresistible volume showcases long-established great cities like Paris, Rome, New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as exciting up-and-comers, including Denver, Asheville, Oslo, and Abu Dhabi. As readable as it is beautiful, this expansive travel guide offers a playful, informative mix of inspirational personal narratives; photo galleries, and fun facts; plus sidebars on oddities; where to find the best food and shopping; novels that capture a particular city's atmosphere; local secrets; and more. Many additional cities appear in illustrated lists, such as eco-friendly cities, foodie cities; and happiest cities. The twenty-first century is the Century of the City, and on-the-go visitors and armchair travelers alike will make The World's Best Cities a must-have volume to accompany all their urban adventures.

World's Best Cities: Celebrating 220 Great Destinations

The World's Best Cities: Celebrating 220 Great Destinations

Delving into the heart and soul of more than 225 cities around the globe, The World's Best Cities is a glossy, glorious tribute to cosmopolitan life. In photos and words, this irresistible volume showcases long-established great cities like Paris, Rome, New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as exciting up-and-comers, including Denver, Asheville, Oslo, and Abu Dhabi. As readable as it is beautiful, this expansive travel guide offers a playful, informative mix of inspirational personal narratives; photo galleries, and fun facts; plus sidebars on oddities; where to find the best food and shopping; novels that capture a particular city's atmosphere; local secrets; and more. Many additional cities appear in illustrated lists, such as eco-friendly cities, foodie cities; and happiest cities. The twenty-first century is the Century of the City, and on-the-go visitors and armchair travelers alike will make The World's Best Cities a must-have volume to accompany all their urban adventures.

The World's Best Cities: Celebrating 220 Great Destinations

Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion: A Search for Unity

The Anglican Communion is said to be coming apart at the seams. But is that really true? Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion is the exciting new book that challenges the tired narrative of Anglican disunity.

Jesse Zink has traveled tens of thousands of miles around the world, visiting and worshiping with Anglicans in some of the Communion’s most diverse provinces—Nigeria, the largest province ministering in an unstable political environment; South Sudan, at one point the fastest-growing church in the world, now rebuilding after devastating civil wars; England, the mother church of Anglicans, struggling to adjust to a new, secular age; South Africa, a church dealing with the legacy of entrenched discrimination and rapid social change.

The story Zink learns at the grassroots level of the church is far different from the one that dominates its highest levels. He shows that when conversations about power, history, and sexuality are undertaken in a spirit of mutuality and trust, they can strengthen, not weaken, the Anglican Communion. The result is a book that presents vivid slices of Anglican life around the world, argues convincingly that unity is central to the Communion’s mission, and presents a credible path to achieving that unity in a global church. It is a book that will be sure to shape coming debates about the future of the Anglican Communion.

Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion: A Search for Unity

Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries.

Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

Balochistan: At a Crossroads

Lyrical travel writing and hard-hitting reportage from the remote border region where Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan all meet - one of the last truly unexplored frontiers for Western journalism.

Powerful accompanying photographs showcase this rugged, dangerous but beautiful landscape and the struggles of a poorly understood people - the Baloch - desperate to maintain their own national identity.

A fascinating account of British reporter Willem Marx's travels in Balochistan; a forbidding, forbidden and largely forgotten province of Pakistan that is currently immersed in civil conflict. The French photojournalist Marc Wattrelot has captured some spectacular images during their time spent in this little-known corner of the world.

"Balochistan at a Crossroads" provides remarkable insight into this formidable region, rarely seen by the outside world. This book presents many aspects of Balochistan - its past and present, its people and places. It is an account that offers an entirely new perspective on a harsh and unforgiving landscape and the people who call it home.

Balochistan: At a Crossroads

Essential India Travel Guide

Are you visiting India? Do you want to know more about India before you travel? Are you looking for travel tips and unbiased information on India? Are you looking for an India travel guide but don’t know which one to get? Then here’s a travel guide on India that covers everything you need from places to visit to dealing with beggars and how to protect yourself while in India. The “Essential India Travel Guide: Travel Tips And Practical Information” covers everything you need to know about India.

Essential India Travel Guide

The Road Guide to Yosemite

Motorists have long-deserved an all-new guide to the major sights and stops along Yosemite’s majestic major roadways — one which not only lists distances, facilities, and things to do, but that also provides enlightening stories, park history, and natural history in a most engaging way. The wait is over. Ranger Bob Roney has applied his deep knowledge of the park and renowned story-telling skills to give drivers and their companions what they need to know, where they need to know it. Keyed to markers newly placed throughout the park, and packed with maps, illustrations, and dozens of full-color photographs, The Road Guide to Yosemite makes it safe and easy to stop and enjoy the world-famous scenery.

The Road Guide to Yosemite

John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail

Elizabeth Wenk's authoritative guide describes the 212-mile John Muir Trail, running from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mt. Whitney. John Muir Trail provides all the necessary planning information, including up-to-date details on wilderness and permit regulations, food resupplies, trailhead amenities, and travel from nearby cities. Useful essentials are updated GPS coordinates and maps for prominent campsites (along with an updated list of sites along the trail), trail junctions, bear boxes, and other points of interest. The trail descriptions also include natural and human history to provide a workout for both body and mind — a must-have for any Muir Trail enthusiast. Note that the text includes the southbound trail description, while the full guide with the northbound description is available as a separate ebook product.

John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail

Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir. Headhunters on My Doorstep chronicles Troost’s return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism left him numb to life. Deciding to retrace the path once traveled by the author of Treasure Island, Troost follows Robert Louis Stevenson to the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, Kiribati, and Samoa, tumbling from one comic misadventure to another. Headhunters on My Doorstep is a funny yet poignant account of one man’s journey to find himself that will captivate travel writing aficionados, Robert Louis Stevenson fans, and anyone who has ever lost his way.

Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

A Walk in the Clouds: 50 Years Among the Mountains

A Walk in the Clouds: 50 Years Among the Mountains is a heartwarming, inspirational, and evocative collection of memories and short stories from Kev Reynolds, a prolific and celebrated guidebook author who has been roaming the mountains for a half-century. These recollections trail Reyonlds' journeys through some of his favorite and most memorable lessons learned on the mountains. The people met, experiences shared, and cultures bridged throughout Reynolds' travels make for an engaging read for hikers and non-hikers alike. Shadowing Reynolds across the Moroccan Atlas, the Pyrenees trails, the European Alps, and even the Himalayas gives the reader the feeling not only of hiking the trails, but also of forming the relationships and connections throughout the world that Reynolds was able to create. This book motivates the common reader to undertake something they have never done before because, as the reader learns from Reynolds, that is where some of the best experiences come from.

A Walk in the Clouds: 50 Years Among the Mountains

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America’s most beloved weirdo

John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads “I’m Not Psycho,” he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?

Before he leaves for this bizarre adventure, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this cult legend sticks out his thumb and faces the open road? His real-life rides include a gentle eighty-one-year-old farmer who is convinced Waters is a hobo, an indie band on tour, and the perverse filmmaker’s unexpected hero: a young, sandy-haired Republican in a Corvette.

Laced with subversive humor and warm intelligence, Carsick is an unforgettable vacation with a wickedly funny companion—and a celebration of America’s weird, astonishing, and generous citizenry.

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

This is Paris

This is Paris, first published in 1959, brings Paris, one of the most exciting cities in the world, to life. There are famous buildings, beautiful gardens, cafés, and the Parisians-artists, concierges, flower girls, and even thousands of cats. Take a tour along the banks of the Seine, through the galleries of the Louvre, and to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

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Backpacking Europe 2014

What started as a deathbed promise to my terminally ill fiancé in 2006 (to deliver her ashes to Europe for the honeymoon we would not be able to share) has led to multiple life changing tours of Europe. Since then, 4 European backpacking trips have covered 42 cities across 19 countries. I even lived in London for 6 months. Over 2 years in the making, allow me to guide you thru the language barrier and point you to what works. You'll get my tested and proven methods, tips and techniques to make your European adventure the most enjoyable, comfortable and memorable experience of your life! Yes, you can have it all. Even with champagne taste on a very delicious Bavarian beer budget. :) Plus, you'll get my PERSONAL checklists, favorite resources and straight forward NO BS advise. You will know how to backpack Europe in the most efficient and cost effective way that I know how. Let's get started!

Backpacking Europe 2014: Even If You ONLY Speak English

There are a lot of travel books out there, and you've probably heard them all. But this isn't like any other travel book... no it's probably worse. We are just two travel rookies, who after a little research went to travel on around Europe. We enjoyed every minute, but it probably wasn't as wild or as crazy as some people's experiences are. - We did plenty of partying while we were away - but the only pulling we came close to was pulling a muscle when we decided to run a half marathon in Budapest. - The biggest trouble we got into was at the Croatian border control for crossing with a "suspect" looking teabag... and a cuddly toy. Neither of us are that outgoing or live particularly outlandish lifestyles but we didn't need to be to have a great time. Travel isn't just reserved for the wild and the reckless, but really just about anyone can do it. There's a big world out there filled with generous people, and we're at a unique time when it's cheaper and easier than ever to go and see it. It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter if you're an introvert or an extrovert, a party animal or a priest, all that really matters is that you go out there and see more of the world. We wanted to explore just how far £1000 could take us around Europe, and were completely surprised at the result. From skiing in the Austrian Alps to bathing in the Budapest Springs, we took the opportunity to explore how accessible travel really is nowadays, and it turns out - it's easier than ever. The first half of our book details of all the stories from our two months travelling Europe, and the second half goes into detail about how you can do your own. So no matter whether you want to party or ponder while you're away, you'll be able to have the time of your life, and it needn't cost you the Earth.

How To Travel The Land For Less Than A Grand

Backpacking in Australia

In his longest journey ever, Jeroen Vogel ventures to Australia as a backpacker in search of the real identity of the country. On the way he lives in hostels where drunk couples have sex, engages in friendships with great characters, picks up random jobs to get by, finds himself desperate for work in a big city with thousands of other job-seekers and just when things go well, he finds his long-desired car burned out two days before a road trip down the Australian west coast is supposed to commence. Starting out in Melbourne, he quickly finds out that the real Australia can't be found in the big cities. He leaves for Alice Springs, and then moves on to Darwin, where he finds employment in the worst-run hostel in town. Going to Kununurra then turns out to be the wisest move to make. In "Backpacking in Australia", Jeroen Vogel uses tons of humour, wit, insights and facts to provide the reader with a funny and detailed account of his two year journey through that Land Down Under.

Backpacking in Australia

Backpacking Europe Planning & Essentials Guide

The Backpacking Europe Planning & Essentials Guide provides key info to plan a kick arse backpacking Europe trip. The Guide is written is easy and fun read and offers an excellent overview of what to see and do in Europe, which destinations to visit, how to get around, when to go, what type of accommodation options exist, and traveling solo or with others and much more. The Guide offers pros and cons for may of the options you will be making decisions on in planning a European backpacking adventure of a lifetime! Chapters include: - Things to See & Do in Europe - Travel Dynamics & Types - Money and Budgeting your Trip - Europe Tours & Transport Options - Accommodation Options & Styles - European Destination write-ups and - Travel Tips.

Backpacking Europe Planning & Essentials Guide

Transit Maps of the World

Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the history of mass transit-including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available for the first time since their original publication. Transit Maps is the graphic designer's new bible, the transport enthusiast's dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for everyone who's ever traveled in a city.

Transit Maps of the World

The Great Railway Bazaar

First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express -- are the stars of a journey that takes him on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.

The Great Railway Bazaar

Bali: The Ultimate Guide

Bali: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Most Famous Island is the most complete guide to Bali ever published. Lively articles by world renowned experts present every aspect of the island's history and culture, along with detailed descriptions of all the sights, with maps and photos included. An informative section at the end of the book gives important travel and etiquette tips, transportation notes, a language primer, and a glossary.

Bali: The Ultimate Guide

Tourist Trains Guidebook

The Tourist Trains Guidebook is a passport into the exciting world of heritage railroading. It puts readers on the right track for riding historic steam locomotives, taking in breathtaking scenery only visible from the rails, and stepping into the past. The fourth edition of the Tourist Trains Guidebook follows the same successful, user-friendly format as its predecessor. It thoroughly describes nearly 500 excursion trains and railroad museums throughout the United States and Canada. About 200 of the most popular sites are presented in full-page reviews written by a knowledgeable Trains magazine editor or correspondent. Reviewers offer advice on what to see, when to go, and how to get there. The remaining listings highlight smaller yet interesting train rides, museums, and depots that provide family fun or a unique piece of railroad history. Sites featured also include general directions, locator maps, and websites to give the reader the most user-friendly resource.

Tourist Trains Guidebook

European Rail Timetable 2014: Summer

a guide to the Thomas Cook timetables

European Rail Timetable 2014: Summer

Berlitz River Cruising in Europe

A river cruise is undoubtedly the most civilized way to see the best of Europe; you can relax in the comfort of a small vessel as you glide through beautiful towns and spectacular scenery. But how do you choose which cruise company, which kind of rivership, and where to go? The Berlitz guide to River Cruising in Europe will tell you everything you need to know about taking a cruise along Europe’s beautiful rivers and waterways. The book cuts through the brochures’ hype – almost every river cruise company promises you luxury. But what does ‘luxury’ really mean? The guide gives you unbiased advice on the different kinds of river vessels and the facilities they offer, helping you to make an informed choice. We take you on a journey along Europe’s rivers and waterways, describing the highlights along the way – the historic cities and majestic scenery of the Danube, the castles and vineyards of the romantic Rhine, and much. Also included are listings for over 200 river vessels, which are described in detail and impartially rated, so that you can easily compare ships and their facilities.

Berlitz River Cruising in Europe

Lonely Planet Great Adventures

Ancient tracks, Underwater chasms. Ice-clad peaks. This showcase of the world’s most thrilling adventures takes you by boot, pedal, or paddle to awe-inspiring natural spectacles and on adrenalin-charged endeavours. You don’t have to be intrepid but you will need to embrace the spirit of adventure!

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• Amsterdam
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• London
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• Rome
• Venice

Central & Eastern Europe

• Budapest
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Northern Europe

• Copenhagen

Russia & NIS Countries

• Moscow

North America

• Montreal
• New York City
• San Francisco
• Toronto
• Vancouver

Oceania

• Sydney

DK Eyewitness

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• Top 10 Travel Guide
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Water Heater Portable Coffee Immersion Dual Voltage Beverage Heat

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1014 Places to See in Australia

It is impossible not to gasp in wonder at this most ancient of continents. From the most beautiful beaches to stunning caves; from eerie, empty deserts to teaming tourist traps 1014 Things to Do and See in Australia is a compelling guide for anyone who really wants to experience this great island continent. Bruce Elder should know. He has explored every nook and cranny of Australia over the past 20 years, researching its rich diversity and history, meeting its people and capturing it all in words and images. Other books by Bruce Elder include: Blood on the Wattle, The A-Z of Australian Facts, Myths & Legends and Globetrotter Travel Guide Australia.

1014 Places to See in Australia

On A Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India

This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans meander their way slowly south from Bombay to the southernmost point of India, Cape Comorin. Interested in everything they see, but only truly enchanted by people, they stay in fisherman's huts and no-star hotels, travelling in packed-out buses, on foot and by local boats. Instead of pressing ever onwards, like so many travellers, they double back to the place they liked most, the hill province of Coorg and settle down to live there for two months. Anchored by her daughter's delight in the company of her Indian neighbours, Dervla Murphy creates an extraordinarily affectionate portrait of these cardamon-scented, spiritually and agriculturally self- sufficient Highlands. If travel is underwritten by an unwitting search for a lost paradise, this is a quest that was achieved - made possible with the right sort of travelling companion.

On A Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India

Fodor's Top 25 Must-See Sights

Best bets for dining, lodging, sightseeing. Plus a full-color pullout map.

Fodor's Top 25 Must-See Sights

Photography Night Sky: A Field Guide for Shooting After Dark

Photography: Night Sky will give you the tips and techniques you need to take stunning photographs in the dark. You'll learn how to overcome the unique issues that confront nighttime photographers and capture images of which you'll be proud. Co-author Jennifer Wu, an elite Canon Explorer of Light professional photographer, has become renowned for her ability to capture nighttime phenomena, from quarter-phase moon rises to shooting stars to the ephemeral Milky Way. This new guide reveals her methods and concentrates on photographing four principal subjects: stars as points of light, star trails, the moon, and twilight. These subjects share common photo techniques and considerations, but each also requires a distinct approach. Once captured, your digital images must be finished on the computer; co-author and author of the bestselling Photography: Outdoors, James Martin, delves into the settings and procedures that elevate an image from mundane to striking. This clear and practical guide will help photographers of all levels portray the stunning spectacle of the night sky, preserving those special memories and moments from a life outdoors.

Photography Night Sky: A Field Guide for Shooting After Dark

Time Out for Visitors Series

The newly updated London for Visitors guide is bursting with interesting cultural features and expert local information with a Londoner's perspective. This is the perfect great-value guide for every new visitor to London on a short weekend break looking to get the most out of the capital.

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Travel the World Without Worries

Filled with trail-tested advice, Travel the World Without Worries is the must-have planning resource for the low-budget traveller. Whether you are dreaming of epic jungle treks, wild tuk-tuk rides, authentic food markets, or maybe just finding that perfect undiscovered beach—with this book you can start turning your travel dreams into a reality today. Whether you are going away for 6 weeks, 4 months or 2 years, you will be able to skip the hard lessons of backpacking and travel the world with confidence.

Travel the World Without Worries

How to Travel The Amazon River

Traveling in the Amazon is a dream of millions of people from around the world, and this book shows you how to accomplish this historic journey and make the trip safely, easier and more affordable than you could ever imagine. Right now, you can conveniently catch a flight from anywhere in the world and spend a couple of days in the Amazon rainforest. On the other hand, you could make a longer journey, as I did, from the beginning of the river in Peru, through Colombia, to its end at the beautiful beaches of Brazil's Atlantic coast. Throughout this journey, you will learn that the Amazon is full of brilliant and magical moments and together we will discover: The secret, step by step, to enjoying the most beautiful river in the world according to time, budget, and favorite activities How to save hundreds of dollars on airline & boat tickets to have a fantastic holiday How to maximize your time on the river or the jungle. Do more with less! Exotic safe tours off the beaten track to beautiful little-visited, but safe remote communities. Places to go surfing, golfing, play tennis, or go fishing How you can help conserve the environment and why you should support indigenous communities. Whether your style of traveling is relaxed or full of activities and adventures, this eco-guide will help you explore the Amazon River the fun and easy way. This eco-book from Mynor Schult will the only tour guide you will need on your incredible journey. Part of the proceeds of this book are donated to institutions in the Amazon community.

How to Travel The Amazon River

Alaska: A Visual Tour of America's Great Land

An amazing tour through its history, culture and landscape, Alaska's stunning imagery and informative text makes it the perfect book for those who dream of visiting the 49th state and those who want to celebrate its singular beauty and expansive history.From the lush rainforests of the Inside Passage, to the desolate beauty of the far north, Alaska's natural wonders never cease to enthrall and amaze. Join National Geographic on this spectacular visual journey through seven distinct geographic regions of this amazing state, bringing each region alive through brisk historical narrative and lavish color photography, art, and maps. Whether to learn, to visit, or simply to dream--National Geographic's Alaska provides readers with an incomparable tour.

• Alaska: A Visual Tour of America's Great Land
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• Hiking & Tramping in New Zealand
• Trekking in East Africa
• Trekking in the Central Andes
• Trekking in the Indian Himalaya
• Trekking in the Karakoram & Hindukush
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• Watching Wildlife East Africa
• Watching Wildlife Galapagos Islands
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Diving & Snorkeling Guides

• Diving & Snorkeling Belize
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Cycling Guides

• Cycling Australia
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• Cycling Cuba
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• Cycling USA - West Coast
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National Parks Guides

• Banff, Jasper and Glacier National Park
• Grand Canyon National Park
• Great Smoky Mountains & Shenandoah
• Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks
• Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
• Zion & Bryce Canyon

Road Trips Guides

• Road Trip: Blue Ridge Parkway
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• Road Trip: California Highway 1
• Road Trip: Hudson River Valley
• Road Trip: Lake Michigan
• Road Trip: Napa & Sonoma Wine Country
• Road Trip: New England
• Road Trip: Route 66

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A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino de Santiago

Now updated to include newer maps and photos—and lighter in weight to support carefree traveling—this comprehensive guidebook to the Camino de Santiago and its offshoots contains all the information needed by modern-day pilgrims wishing to walk the sacred Way of St. James. Overview route planners plus daily stage maps and detailed town plans help sojourners with all the advance preparation they need. The maps feature contour guides to help distinguish the terrain that will be crossed each day, while full information on all pilgrim hostels, as well as details for alternative accommodation, allow travelers to plot adequate nightly stopping points. All reference information is accompanied by helpful spiritual guidelines to support the seeker's inner journey as well as the outer pilgrimage. Otherwise known as the Camino Francés, the main route covered in this volume is the most popular sacred route through Spain, from St. Jean Pied de Port to Santiago.

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The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

Travel maestro Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar) conducts a rambling tour of the genre in this diverting meditation on passages from his own and other writers' works. Several chapters spotlight underappreciated travel writers from Samuel Johnson to Paul Bowles, while others explore themes both profound and whimsical. There are classic set-piece literary evocations, including Thoreau on the hush of the Maine woods and Henry James on the miserable pleasures of Venice. A section on storied but disappointing destinations fingers Tahiti as "a mildewed island of surly colonials"; travel epics—shipwrecks, Sahara crossings, Jon Krakauer's duel with Mount Everest—are celebrated; exotic meals are recalled (beetles, monkey eyes, and human flesh, anyone?); and some writers, like Emily Dickinson, just stay home and write about that. The weakest section is a compendium of aphoristic abstractions—"Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion"—while the strongest pieces descry a tangible place through a discerning eye and pungent sensibility: "I do not think I shall ever forget the sight of Etna at sunset," Evelyn Waugh rhapsodizes; "othing I have seen in Art or Nature was quite so revolting.

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How to Be the World's Smartest Traveler

Leading travel expert and USA Today columnist Christopher Elliott shares the smartest ways to travel in this tip-filled guide from National Geographic. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience as a consumer travel advocate, Elliott gives you the inside scoop on how to navigate the often perplexing world of travel, with detailed advice on:

• Airlines
• car rentals
• cruises
• hotels and alternative lodging
• the TSA and security
• staying connected
• review websites
• resolving complaints
• vacation rentals
• passports and visas
• and much more

Full of recommendations, real-life case histories, and the answers to the most common—and confounding—questions, this book is a must-read for anyone traveling anywhere.

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Top Hostels 2013

• Albania: Hostel Albania, Tirana
• Andorra: Mountain Hostel Tarter, El Tarter
• Argentina: Hospedaje Penthouse 1004, Bariloche
• Armenia: Envoy Hostel, Yerevan
• Australia: Bounce Sydney, Sydney
• Austria: myMOjOvie, Vienna
• Azerbaijan: Caspian Hostel, Baku
• Belarus: Viva Hostel Minsk, Minsk
• Belgium: Hostel Uppelink, Gent
• Belize: Pause, Caye Caulker
• Bolivia: Wild Rover Backpackers, La Paz
• Bosnia And Herzegovina: Travellers Home Hostel, Sarajevo
• Brazil: Discovery Hostel, Rio de Janeiro
• Bulgaria: Hostel Mostel Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo
• Cambodia: The Siem Reap Hostel, Siem Reap
• Canada: M Montreal, Montreal
• Chile: H Rado Hostel, Santiago
• China: Han Tang Inn Hostel, Xi'an
• Colombia: The Dreamer Hostel, Santa Marta
• Cook Islands: Tiare Village, Rarotonga
• Costa Rica: Arenal Hostel Resort, La Fortuna
• Croatia: Hobo Bear Hostel, Zagreb
• Czech Republic: The MadHouse Prague, Prague
• Denmark: Copenhagen Downtown Hostel, Copenhagen
• Dominican Republic: Bavaro Hostel, Punta Cana
• Ecuador: The Secret Garden Quito, Quito
• El Salvador: Hostel Casa Verde Santa Ana, Santa Ana
• England: The Fort Boutique Hostel, York
• Estonia: Tallinn Backpackers, Tallinn
• Fiji: Bamboo Beach, Nadi
• Finland: Tampere Dream Hostel, Tampere
• France: Hostel Meyerbeer Beach, Nice
• Georgia: Nest Hostel Tbilisi, Tbilisi
• Germany: Lotte - The Backpackers, Heidelberg
• Ghana: Crystal Hostel, Accra
• Greece: City Circus Athens, Athens
• Guadeloupe: E.Gwada, Le Gosier
• Guatemala: El Hostal, Antigua
• Honduras: Buena Onda Hostel, Roatan
• Hong Kong: Check Inn HK, Hong Kong
• Hungary: Pal's Hostel, Budapest
• Iceland: KEX Hostel, Reykjavik
• India: Ram Bhawan, Kautilya Society Residence, Varanasi
• Indonesia: Six Degrees, Jakarta
• Ireland: Kinlay Eyre Square Hostel, Galway
• Israel: Abraham Hostel Jerusalem, Jerusalem
• Italy: Ostello Bello, Milan
• Jamaica: Reggae Hostel, Kingston
• Japan: Khaosan Tokyo Kabuki, Tokyo
• Jordan: Jordan Tower Hostel, Amman
• Kenya: Backpackers Nirvana, Mombasa
• Kosovo: Hostel Han, Pristina
• Kyrgyzstan: Interhouse Bishkek, Bishkek
• Latvia: The Naughty Squirrel Backpackers Hostel, Riga
• Lebanon: Hostel Amada, Byblos
• Liechtenstein: Youthhostel Schaan-Vaduz, Schaan
• Lithuania: Home Made House, Vilnius
• Luxembourg: Luxembourg City Hostel, Luxembourg City
• Macedonia: SunnyLakeHostel, Ohrid
• Malawi: Pakachere, Backpackers & Creative Centre, Zomba
• Malaysia: Roof Top Guest House and Hostel Melaka, Melaka
• Mali: The Sleeping Camel, Bamako
• Malta: Hostel Malti, St. Julians
• Martinique: Centre International de Séjour Martinique, Fort-de-France
• Mexico: Hostel Hospedarte Chapultepec, Guadalajara
• Moldova: Retro Moldova Hostel, Chisinau
• Mongolia: UB Guesthouse & Hostel, Ulaanbaatar
• Montenegro: Old Town Hostel Kotor, Kotor
• Morocco: Hostel Riad Marrakech Rouge, Marrakech
• Mozambique: Marimba Secret Gardens, Vilanculos
• Namibia: Skeleton Beach Backpackers, Swakopmund
• Nepal: Alobar1000, Kathmandu
• Netherlands Antilles: The Crew House St. Maarten, St. Martin
• Netherlands: Cocomama, Amsterdam
• New Zealand: Adventure Queenstown Hostel, Queenstown
• Nicaragua: Managua Backpackers Inn, Managua
• Northern Ireland: Downhill Hostel, Castlerock
• Norway: Marken Gjestehus, Bergen
• Pakistan: Lahore Backpackers, Lahore
• Panama: Los Mostros Hostel, Panama City
• Paraguay: El Viajero Asuncion Hostel & Suites, Asuncion
• Peru: Pariwana Hostel Cusco, Cusco
• Philippines: Red Carabao Community, Manila
• Poland: Mosquito Hostel, Krakow
• Portugal: Home Lisbon Hostel, Lisbon
• Puerto Rico: Moon Light Bay Hostel, Fajardo
• Romania: Transylvania Hostel, Cluj Napoca
• Russia: Soul Kitchen, St Petersburg
• Rwanda: Discover Rwanda Youth Hostel, Kigali
• Saint Lucia: Reef Beach Huts, Vieux Fort
• San Marino: Hostel San Marino, San Marino
• Scotland: Skyewalker Hostel, Isle of Skye
• Senegal: Ker Jahkarlo, Dakar
• Serbia: Hedonist Hostel, Belgrade
• Singapore: Green Kiwi Backpacker Hostel, Singapore
• Slovakia: Hostel Blues, Bratislava
• Slovenia: Jazz Hostel & Apartments, Bled
• South Africa: The Backpack, Cape Town
• South Korea: Backpackers INSIDE, Seoul
• Spain: Hostel One Paralelo, Barcelona
• Sri Lanka: Clock Inn Colombo, Colombo
• Swaziland: Lidwala Backpacker Lodge, Lobamba
• Sweden: City Backpackers Hostel, Stockholm
• Switzerland: Backpackers Villa Sonnenhof (Hostel Interlaken), Interlaken
• Taiwan: Bike Kaohsiung Hostel, Kaohsiung
• Tanzania: New Teddy's Place, Zanzibar
• Thailand: NapPark Hostel at Khao San, Bangkok
• Trinidad and Tobago: Fish Tobago Guesthouse, Buccoo Point
• Uganda: Nalubale Tea House & Accommodation, Jinja
• Ukraine: TIU Kreschatik, Kiev
• Uruguay: El Viajero - Hostel & Suites, Colonia del Sacramento
• USA: Hostelling International Boston, Boston
• Vanuatu: City Lodge - Port Vila, Port Vila
• Venezuela: Dal Bo Hostel, Caracas
• Vietnam: Mojzo inn, Nha Trang
• Wales: The Riverhouse Backpackers, Cardiff
• Zambia: Jollyboys Backpackers, Livingstone
• Zimbabwe: Victoria Falls Backpackers, Victoria Falls

Best Hostels of 2013

Best Small Hostels

Awarded by you to the top 10 small hostels (maximum 50 beds) worldwide based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

1. Soul Kitchen
2. Budapest Bubble
3. Adventure Queenstown Hostel
4. Hostel One Paralelo
5. Mosquito Hostel
6. The MadHouse Prague
7. Lisboa Central Hostel
8. Lavender Circus Hostel, Doubles & Ensuites
9. Lisbon Lounge Hostel
10. Barcelona Central Garden

Best Small Hostels Nominees

1. Discovery Hostel
2. Hedonist Hostel
3. Carpe Noctem
4. Split Guesthouse & Hostel
5. Khaosan Tokyo Kabuki
6. Pal's Hostel
7. Lotte - The Backpackers
8. Greg & Tom Hostel
9. Greg & Tom Party Hostel
10. Hostel One Sants

Best Medium Hostels

Awarded by you to the top 10 medium hostels (51-100 beds) worldwide based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

1. Home Lisbon Hostel
2. Travellers House
3. Yes! Porto Hostel
4. Goodmorning Lisbon Hostel
5. Living Lounge Hostel
6. Lisbon Destination Hostel
7. Ostello Bello
8. The Riverhouse Backpackers
9. Goodnight Lisbon Hostel
10. The Naughty Squirrel Backpackers Hostel

Best Medium Hostels Nominees

1. EastSeven Berlin Hostel
2. Granada Inn Backpackers
3. Die Wohngemeinschaft
4. Vagabonds
5. Sant Jordi Sagrada Familia
6. Charles Bridge Economic Hostel
7. Hostel of the Sun
8. Sant Jordi Alberg
9. The Garden Backpacker
10. Osaka Hana Hostel

Best Large Hostels

Awarded by you to the top 10 large hostels (101-250 beds) worldwide based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

1. Tattva Design Hostel
2. Yes! Lisbon Hostel
3. M Montreal
4. The Cat's Pajamas Hostel
5. Backpackers Villa Sonnenhof (Hostel Interlaken)
6. Kinlay Eyre Square Hostel
7. Circus Hostel
8. Dream House Hostel
9. LoLHostel Siracusa
10. The Siem Reap Hostel

Best Large Hostels Nominees

1. Lub d Bangkok Silom
2. Planet Traveler
3. Hostel Mostel
4. Hostel One Prague
5. Montreal Central
6. Bounce Sydney
7. Pariwana Hostel Cusco
8. Casa Gracia Barcelona Hostel
9. Rowan Tree Hostel
10. U Hostels

Best Extra Large Hostels

Awarded by you to the top 10 extra large hostels (minimum 251 beds) worldwide based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

1. Wombats City Hostel Budapest
2. Hostelling International Boston
3. PLUS Berlin
4. Wombats City Hostel Vienna - at the Naschmarkt
5. Abraham Hostel Jerusalem
6. Castle Rock Hostel
7. Wombats City Hostel Munich
8. Wombats City Hostel Berlin
9. Chicago Getaway Hostel
10. H.I. Chicago Hostel
Best Extra Large Hostels Nominees
1. St Christopher's Barcelona
2. Nomads Queenstown
3. Generator Hostel Copenhagen
4. MEININGER Berlin Mitte Humboldthaus
5. MEININGER Frankfurt/Main Messe
6. Hostel Suites Florida
7. MEININGER Vienna Downtown Franz
8. SameSun Backpacker Lodge - Vancouver
9. ONE80º Hostel - Alexanderplatz
10. MEININGER Amsterdam City West
Continent Winners

Awarded by you to the top 3 hostels on each continent based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

Africa
1. The Backpack
2. Hostel Riad Marrakech Rouge
3. Rainbow Marrakech
Asia
1. Khaosan Tokyo Kabuki
2. Osaka Hana Hostel
3. Mojzo inn
Europe
1. Soul Kitchen
2. Home Lisbon Hostel
3. Travellers House
Latin America
1. Discovery Hostel
2. Barra Beach Club Oceanfront Hostel
3. H Rado Hostel
North America
1. M Montreal
2. Hostelling International Boston
3. Planet Traveler
Oceania
1. Adventure Queenstown Hostel
2. Bounce Sydney
3. Travellers Oasis
Most Popular Hostels

Combining number of bookings and the average rating given by you, our customers, this is awarded to the most popular hostels in each of our top cities.

Amsterdam
• Amsterdam: Flying Pig Downtown
• Bangkok: Lub d Bangkok Silom
• Barcelona: St Christopher's Barcelona
• Beijing: Peking International Youth Hostel
• Berlin: Wombats City Hostel Berlin
• Brussels: Brussels Hello Hostel
• Budapest: Wombats City Hostel Budapest
• Buenos Aires: Hostel Suites Florida
• Dublin: Isaacs Hostel
• Edinburgh: Castle Rock Hostel
• Florence: PLUS Florence
• Hong Kong: Yesinn @CAUSEWAY BAY
• Lisbon: Yes! Lisbon Hostel
• London: Palmers Lodge - Swiss Cottage
• Los Angeles: USA Hostels Hollywood
• Madrid: U Hostels
• Melbourne: Home at The Mansion
• Milan: Ostello Bello
• Munich: Wombats City Hostel Munich
• New York: New York Budget Inn
• Paris: St Christopher's Inn Canal
• Prague: Old Prague Hostel
• Rio de Janeiro: Lemon Spirit Hostel
• Rome: The Yellow
• San Francisco: USA Hostels San Francisco
• Singapore: Footprints Hostel
• Sydney: Bounce Sydney
• Tokyo: Oak Hostel
• Venice: Ostello S. Fosca
• Vienna: Wombats City Hostel Vienna - at the Naschmarkt
Rating Criteria Winners

Awarded by you to the top hostels rated on the following criteria: Value For Money, Facilities, Location, Staff, Security, Cleanliness and Atmosphere based on your reviews from 2013.

Best value for money
• Tattva Design Hostel
Best facilities
• Tattva Design Hostel
Best atmosphere
• Hostel One Paralelo
Best location
• Adventure Queenstown Hostel
Best staff
• Hostel One Paralelo
Most secure hostel
• Soul Kitchen
Cleanest hostel
• Home Lisbon Hostel
New to Hostelworld
• MEININGER Brussels City Center
Lifetime Achievement Award
• Home Lisbon Hostel
Best Green Hostel
• Twentytu Hi-Tech Hostel
Special Contribution
• INOUT Hostel
Most Improved Hostel
• Ostello Tramonti

Hostels European Cities

Here is the unbiased lowdown on more than 200 hostels throughout Europe. From Vienna to Lisbon, Prague to Edinburgh, Berlin to Paris—more than thirty cities are covered. Whether you’re looking to party or just looking for a clean, quiet, affordable place to crash, this guide will get you exactly where you want to go.

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