We have all met someone who has just been out on the road for too long, you know that person who doesn’t have a story that is not about a famous landmark, has let their personal hygiene drop to an alarming level and considers their pathological cheapness to be standard practice among enlightened beings. The challenge is realising when you are that person! Nah couldn’t be, you think but you would be surprised at how quickly you can go from ‘I have the world at my feet’ to be a

I’ve seen some pretty surreal places in my travels. Steam rising from a hot waterfall in Java Indonesia, rice paddies to the horizon in China, other worldly karsts soaring straight from the water in Ha Long bay Vietnam and rock formations against the setting sun in the white desert in Egypt. I have been lucky enough to soak up the atmosphere in these places, to take on a little of their otherworldly feeling and use it to spark my imagination and inspire my love of world trave

Amy on the Road is a travel fiction series following Amy, a young Aussie on her first forays into backpacking. Follow her misadventures from the beginning at www.annkaddley.com I am not the most relaxed traveller, there I said it. I triple check my map and bug strangers to confirm what I researched weeks ago. Despite my somewhat paranoid approach to getting from A to B things sometimes still go awry. The train to Jakarta was one of those things and one of those examples of th

No one likes to be taken for a ride and when you’re in a foreign country with limited resources it can be downright maddening. Scams in South East Asia range from the mild (getting hit with tourist prices at every turn) to the downright dangerous. This is a quick guide to the most common scams in the Asian region and some simple things you can do to keep your precious money in your wallet. The line between being open to new experiences/people and being an overly trusting chum