Hey there, Adventure Rob Readers!
Just about a year ago, I found myself in the middle of Bolivia, sharing stories over drinks with a group of fellow travelers after a day of exploring. Over the previous month, I had visited the Uyuni Salt Flats, placed my hands in footprints left by dinosaurs millions of years ago, descended into the “mountain that eats men” to meet miners still working with 500 year old technology, and cruised across Lake Titicaca. I had met adventurers from Australia, Holland, Japan, Canada, Brazil and dozens of other countries.
Dinosaur Footprints! How cool is that?
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If you’re planning a holiday in Luxor, there are a few places that you’ll almost certainly visit such as Karnak and Luxor Temples, and the Valley of the Kings. These are the most popular tourist destinations in Luxor and so you’re likely to be confronted by a throng of other tourists, not to mention the mass of street vendors who will hassle you to buy their wares. Of course there is a good reason why these places are so popular, but it often means you’ll miss out on some other excellent sites. Here are some the best sites that are not usually part of the tourist circuit.
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I first went to Disneyland when I was 11. It was my first family holiday abroad so quite exciting to see a new country and specifically go to a place with bright lights and famous cartoon characters. Our family got a fl private jet card membership so we were able to travel freely through Florida all we wanted. This of course saved a tremendous amount of time so we were able to do a lot of sightseeing and check out pretty much all the theme parks. We were staying at a hotel near Disney, and that helped a lot too, so all in all careful planning made for a great vacation. We looked at hotels for a while and had to consider several things before deciding on one. One of the things we considered is the safety of the guests. With this, property owners are required to conduct and implement a fire watch should the property’s fire alarm system and/or water-based fire protection system such as a sprinkler system is not operational. They may seek expert help from a professional Fire Watch Company in Boca Raton.
Thankfully we did, we kept talking about how much that ended up helping out and making the trip as enjoyable as it was. Admittedly I wasn’t keen on the big roller coaster rides (it’s not my preferred method of getting thrills, and that hasn’t really changed in adulthood, although I’m more willing to go on them now), there was still plenty to see and plenty of thrills for those not interested in bending their faces with G forces. Over 15 years later I returned to Disneyland and Universal Studios, but this time in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan rather than Orlando, Florida, USA.
Electric parades are always impressive
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Teaching English is a popular method of earning money abroad in order to help fund your travels, as well as opening exciting opportunities to live and work abroad for extended periods of time and start a new unexpected career (trust me, lots do!).
I’ve fallen into teaching English a few times, mostly to help fund my travels, and although it’s not made me rich (I don’t think many people have got rich from teaching English come to think of it), it certainly did its job of extending my travels and keeping my abroad and fed.
Sneaky picture of one of my classes
** Note: I used to recommend Nomadic Matt’s book in this post but he has since removed it from sale and no longer supports it, so you will have to find an alternative now. I have removed links from this page to it for that reason too so if something doesn’t make sense that is why.****
To really get full details of how to do this, I recommend Nomadic Matt‘s book ‘How to Teach English Overseas’, not only does this cover the basics, but it has extensive details on some of the more popular destinations including insights from different and excellent people who’ve taught in each part of the world, including me, I helped contribute towards the teaching in Japan section, some more of my experiences can be found in this post. Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →
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Note: This page was updated on 1/1/16 to link to newer models of the camera’s mentioned, apologies if I send you to an older model if you decide to buy one of these.
I’ve been talking a lot about photography recently, I’ll try to get back to travel stuff from the next post onwards, honest! But I’m so happy with photography and my current camera it reminds me of when I got my first dSLR and saw the quality improvement over a basic point and shoot. I really feel the need to shout about this camera.
I’m talking about the Olympus OM-D E-M5 (or latest model: Mark II version
). It sounds much like a computer code rather than a product name, like a lot of cameras do, so what makes it so special and suitable for travel?
In my hand - yes it's small
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