Tours Overseas Articles
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 It’s no coincidence that most international trips east of New York go through London. Throughout history, the United Kingdom was the starting point and epicenter for al...
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NZ travel tips and study, teach and work abroad information, straight from your friends here at Student Traveler! Travel in New Zealand.
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![I [Heart] NZ](http://www.studenttraveler.com/images/iheartnz.jpg) Tourism in New Zealand can take a traditional form, like camping or driving a motor home from town to town. Chat with a sunny-natured Kiwi about contemporary Maori art over a glass of Sauvignon Blanc or catch a rugby match with the...
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 Brazil is like being at a party where everyone is much cooler, better-looking, and can dance much better than you, but you don't mind because at least you...
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Justin Jones weighs in on three albums that rock the roadways in this edition of Travel Tunes.
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 De-moth the tie-dye and dust off those summer tunes, festival season is almost here, and we've got the scoop on the very best of the fest, from Serbia to The States.
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Pay one price, get a whole journey’s worth of plane tickets: that’s the idea behind around-the-world fares and their cousins, “circle” fares. Shelby Gonzalez gives you the lowdown on on these money-saving tickets.
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 The delicious mint tea, poured hot by my hosts? Obviously poisoned. The magnificent rugs laid out at my feet? Wraps to hide my dead body. My so-called guide? Betrayed me. But the choice to take an adventure to Morocco after studying abroad in London? Still the best decision of my life.
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 Our grandparent’s choice of luggage was limited to army rucksacks and suitcases. These days, we have backpacks with sport tech neoprene straps and water bottle holders, and we have suitcases with wheels and extendable handles. Still we are left with the choice, wheels or straps?
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Blessed with fine Caribbean beaches, towering mountains, endless jungle and hot, salsa-infused nightlife, the word is out — Colombia is the place to be.
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 Bikinis and boardies are an essential part of any traveler's summer wardrobe. Check out these sweet new suits then pack your bags for beaches abroad!
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 So you thought St Peter’s basilica in Rome was one of a kind? Guess again. It has inspired numerous replicas throughout the Catholic world. One stipulation remains however: the Vatican will not allow a copy to be bigger than St Peter’s in Rome.
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Justin Jones goes to Israel in search of something more than history, religion and war. Between the friendly people, the adventure tourism, the bars, and the delicious humus, he certainly finds what he is looking for!
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We asked our readers to send us their best travel photos from the road, and the response was incredible! We received some amazing images from all over the world. We were able to narrow it down to our three favorites - Check them out!
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Imagine being able to visit two dozen Asian cities in a single month - and doing it for a price comparable to a single round-trip ticket from California to Southeast Asia. If your appetite for adventure is vast but your time and budget are short, you might want to consider buying an air pass.
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The sun is setting slowly over Darwin Harbour at Mindil Beach, as if putting on a strip-tease for the mobs of people on the shore. Australians love watching the sun go down, and this Thursday-night ritual is almost mandatory in Darwin. The colors turn from a hazy orange to lavender, pink and a deeper purple before going back to another shade of pink. But the sunset only marks the beginning of the night.
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As any seasoned backpacker will tell you, hostels can range from clean and classy budget resorts to run-down dungeons. Most fall somewhere in between. One thing that seems to set the best above the rest is that some hostels just feel like home.
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Hop-on, hop-off type bus tours are a great option for those who don’t want to be constrained by tour itineraries, but enjoy the convenience of not having to worry about transportation. Travelers buy a pass that allows them to hop on and off busses at specified locations, giving them the freedom to go where they want, when they want.
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 I sprang upright in the plush down bedding—startled awake by lurking footsteps approaching my room. Amazingly, the translucently-tan, paper shoji walls had kept my room warm throughout the freezing Mt. Koya night. Unfortunately, the paper walls were, as one might imagine, paper thin; I heard every snore, sniffle and footstep that reverberated down the pine-floored hallway of the 30-room Buddhist temple...
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 Gear Review!
It’s a cold, hard, and now digital world, so shouldn’t your jacket help with more than just the cold? We recently got our hands on two jackets that offer a little something extra.
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Get a crash course on taking successful and inspiring travel photos. Check out these tips - they will help you to take some great photos, but remember the most important rule of photography: have fun and soak it all in.
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Justin Jones, managing editor of Student Traveler Magazine, Led 4 aspiring travel writers on a TravelEurope tour with Contiki Holidays. while on the road, the interns learned how to research, write and edit at break-neck speeds.
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When traveling, guidebooks are a great way to find your way around the city and check off all the must-see sights. You’ll be able to find Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower, but there’s always more to a city than any guide will tell you. From deserted castles to crypts decorated with human bones, here are 3 places you probably won’t find in guidebooks.
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WHETHER ROWDY, SPIRITUAL OR ARTISTIC, AFRICA IS home to a diverse assortment of happenings year-round. Here are just a few highlights of upcoming events that can help you to interact with the locals and their history.
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Those trusty backpacker guidebooks may be helpful if you’re looking for the nearest hostel or the exchange rate to the dollar, but just how useful are they when you’re looking for a nightclub? If you’re in the mood for an overcrowded club frequented by tourists, then you’re in luck. If you’re trying to find a club popular with the locals, then toss your guidebook aside and read on.
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From Bolivia’s isolated salt flats to its bustling urban centers with political protests and sprawling marketplaces, Alexander Provan gives us an inside look at the social and political flux of this South American gem.
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We asked and you answered! Check out our top 10 reader-submitted reasons to travel, part of an ongoing celebration of our 10th year in the travel biz.
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Leslie Baehr has sailed from Aruba to Curacao and leaned some important sea travel lessons along the way. She shares some travel secrets and teaches you how to see the world by sea with cruises and travel by boat.
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 Croatia hopes to adopt the euro by 2010, and other countries like Slovenia, Hungary and Latvia may switch as early as 2007.
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 In the city of love, light, and romance, Christina Couch falls for a sport of a different breed.
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 When you're traveling, with no access to a kitchen, you generally eat from the five fast-food groups: pizza, falafel, sausages, French fries, and alcohol.
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 Student Traveler Magazine interviews travelers on the road right now. The talk about visiting Siena, Arezzo, Cinque Terre, Austria, Germany, Rome, and Venice.
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 During a semester of studying classics in Athens, my roommate and I decided to venture off the mainland..
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 On the Greek island of Lesvos, Tim Wege dips into the 115-degree mineral springs and finds his skepticism cured - along with his rheumatism.
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A terror-struck city keeps its upper lip stiff.
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 It is one of those axioms of travel that spending time in places unfamiliar to you, with people unlike yourself, makes you more accepting of others, less hostile toward difference, more tolerant.
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Outside of Interlaken, Switzerland is the small village of Grindelwald that is great for views of the Swiss Alps. 
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 Since inventing bungy jumping and jet boating,Queenstown has transformed itself into the international hub of extreme sports. From December to March (summer), adrenaline addicts flock to this South Island city for world-class mountain biking, whitewater...
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Eighty years after Hemingway immortalized the weeklong celebration of Pamplona’s patron
saint in The Sun Also Rises, the stampede of enraged 1,300-pound bulls still...
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 The Olympics are coming home toGreece this summer, and it's going to be one hell of a show.
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German trains are usually on time...except when you most need them to be. Or so I learned one night while trying to get from Munich to Geneva.
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 Ever fancied swimming with dolphins? Going black water rafting? Hiking on Sir Edmund Hillary's favorite trails? Perhaps your tastes extend to the wilder side. Jumping out of planes, diving off...
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Tucked comfortably into my British Airways seat from London Heathrow, I contemplated where I was going. I pulled out the in-flight magazine, traced the arcing flight line, and ended at Turkey.
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You want to know the scoop on Europe? Find those gems that make your trip unique, fill your journal with notes and stain your pages with red wine? You're not going to trust recommendations from a travel agent. Even the guidebooks are circumspect. But it's the casual recommendations from a fellow traveler at the train stop that you heed.
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 The last thing I wanted to before I got to Olomouc was eat cheese that reeked of unwashed feet.
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An open letter and a few suggestions for a boy (and his country) about
hanging onto things that really matter.
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