This is one of the world’s most dangerous regions, or so says the media. Here, you can find the cities with the highest murder rates per capita, the countries with widespread poverty, and the most famous drug cartels. Here, you can find armed robberies in daylight, security guards with shotguns guarding supermarkets and nobody on […]
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From Argentina to Colombia: the 30,000km hitchhiking journey
The truth is, I never planned to hitchhike my entire journey across South America. After hitchhiking 30,000km from China to Spain, I thought it was time to travel like how a normal traveller would. However, a cruel twist of fate changed my mind. On my first official day in South America (I landed in Argentina […]
From China to Spain: One crazy guy’s 30,000km hitchhiking journey
You heard right, no bus, no train and no plane. Through hitchhiking alone, I travelled from Kunming, a city in south-western China, to Barcelona in Spain. In six and a half months, I hitchhiked more than 30,000km and walked thousands more. Have you sometimes seen people stick out their thumbs by the side of the […]
