Destination Tips

A trip to the serene, sleepy village on the shores of the Nam Ou River in Northern Laos, Muang Ngoi Neua, feels like a trip back in time – but you don’t want to go there…

Costa Rica is the gem in Central America’s tourism crown: lush, green jungles, wild animals, breathtaking beaches and a well-developed infrastructure make a trip to Costa Rica as easy as it can be adventurous, suitable for many different types of visitors. The level of development, however, has also raised prices on goods and services, hotel rates and transportation to a level that most budget travelers (falsely) believe to be out of their range.

These thirty three things are just a start – there were so many positive aspects of our time in Costa Rica, we could easily list thirty three more! Feel free to share your favs here, too!

Warmer than continental Europe and without all that typical fog, London is an excellent winter holiday destination for festivities and long strolls ending, of course, at the pub!

As passionate street art fans, Valencia is something similar to our Mecca. The Spanish city is teeming with unique graffiti and murals, which makes for fascinating sightseeing throughout local neighborhoods! …

Seeing big cats in the wild is the dream of every wildlife lover, but it is also something that only very few people in the world ever get to experience. …

On our first visit to Thailand’s capital, we couldn’t wait to leave…but the second time around was love at first sight cycling around the Bang Namphueng area of Bangkok. Read on to find out why and how to travel to this exotic jungle just outside the city.

Travel can be about discovering new place and meeting new people, but one of the most exciting aspects of travel is the food! Check out these pictures of our favorite foods we found as we ate our way through Central America…

We were surprised to see how many different types of tours Savannah offers – there are over thirty ghost tours alone! But in a city Savannah’s size, do you need to take a tour at all? Find out what we think, plus a quick guide to tours in Savannah.

During the California leg of our round-the-world tour we had the pleasure of staying at Hotel Diva in San Francisco for two nights in May. Though Diva doesn’t fall into the average backpacker’s budget, it most definitely falls into any Globetrotting Girl’s budget in need of a some spectacular relaxation in a sexy hotel in the heart of San Francisco!