After Campeche, we spent a night in the awful Playa Del Carmen. It probably would have been better had it not been raining since we could have gone to the beach or visit Cozumel, but alas, it was raining very hard. The day was spent walking down the vastly overpriced touristy strips which quoted prices [...]

These are the main things I knew about Indonesia before I visited. 1) It is one of the most natural disaster-prone areas in the world: earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis all occur here. 2) It is the fourth most populous country in the world with its main island, Java, having one of the highest population densities [...]

I took a night bus to Melbourne which was uncomfortable to say the least. The best night bus I’ve ever taken was in Peru. How can a developing country have better buses than Canada, Japan, Australia etc.? I arrived the weekend of the AFL (Aussie Footbal Rules League) final so almost every hostel was either [...]