An airport taxi ride in a new city could be one of the most exciting parts of your arrival – you’re almost guaranteed a hair-whitening, eye-opening, heart-stopping gallop – but taxis can be as expensive and potentially dangerous as they are thrilling, depending on where you are. They can also be an unexpected budget-killer if [...]
Long distance travel can be thought of as a sort of evolution, something that moves you forward, literally and figuratively, a grand pursuit bigger than any minor act of eating food or going up in the Eiffel Tower. Not only are you representing your own personal autonomy but also the country whose language you speak, [...]
A few weeks I was sitting at the San Francisco edition of Meet Plan Go listening to the small group of panelists gathered there to talk about travel philosophy and how they managed to fit long-term travel into their lives. Once they’d disseminated all their helpful how-tos and I-dids, they turned the floor over to [...]
Think back over your life of travels. What do you remember? Probably the big things, the white water rafting trip in Laos, gazing over Machu Picchu for the first time, the sunrise boat-ride down the Ganges. But what about the rest? What about all the little moments you can’t help but forget because they’re overshadowed [...]
In case you missed the last one (not to worry, everyone did) tomorrow is the new date for Passport Day in the USA. Whether you need to renew your old passport or get a new one now’s a perfect opportunity to take care of that pre-trip to-do. Passport Day is the government’s attempt to help [...]
This is a guest post by Ali Dempsey of the travel company Global Basecamps. If you would like to be considered as a contributor for the AirTreks Travel Blog, click here. The natural beauty of Vietnam includes winding rivers, lush jungles, and untouched forests. Explore the hidden lagoons and caves found on the rocky coastline [...]
If travel blogging has done anything, it was to develop a tight-knit community keen on documenting and sharing their travel chops with the world. This weekend your friendly neighborhood AirTreks blogger, that’d be me, will be up in Vancouver, BC to attend the Travel Bloggers Exchange Conference, more commonly known as Tbex, or if you’re [...]
A good travel video does two things, bring back pieces of memory from trips you have already taken, and gives you snapshots of what’s to come on trips you haven’t taken yet. I came across this particular piece of work and was thrown those two elements at once, the scenes causing me to think about [...]
It’s been a while since any photography has been featured on this blog. And hopefully as world travelers you’ve been craving a few shots with which to upshift your imaginations into fifth. Because Friday shares a phoneme with photography and also because your relaxation neurons are starting to fire, I’m showcasing a few of the [...]
I should start by staying I love Lonely Planet. I really do. And I’m not alone. Their famous cerulean blue volumes are probably the most trusted, well-written and exhaustively-researched travel guidebooks around, giving scriptural advice for nearly every destination in this great wide world (and probably some not even on this planet), found in the [...]
