We asked to spend a few hours with a Bedouin family near Palmyra, a city in the Syrian desert. None of them spoke English.

It could have gotten awkward. But language barriers are irrelevant when you’re around children. They are fluent in the universal language: fun.

I want to find the little lying bastard who told me the for $5 you can get a good, clean, comfortable hotel room anywhere in India.

He should suffer for warping my expectations in such an inhumane way.

This is what you get for $5 in the town of Kottayam, Kerala state.

Tana Toraja is a region of Indonesia where death is the greatest cause for celebration. To usher souls to the afterlife, the locals organize massive funerals that last days. And they sacrifice lots of buffalo on the way.

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On your rental scooter, that is. You never know what might be coming up from behind.

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Cairns isn’t just for the Great Barrier Reef. Just two hours north is a rainforest with deadly crocodiles, virginal beaches, refreshing creeks and at least one bat.

In one of the least-traveled islands of Papua New Guinea, you can find virginal beaches, expert-grade diving and surfing, back-flip into an emerald river, and feed a class of friendly eels.

In a roadhouse deep in the central Australian outback, Dinky the Dingo has been entertaining travelers for years.

If you have a very large entrance to your home in Santa Marta, you turn it into an Internet cafe. And if you have pets, have them perform cute wrestling matches for the clients to keep coming back.