October 12th, 2009 by Boris | Category: Articles
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I was kind of hoping that eventually people get tired of the ongoing tourist vs traveller debate and it's offsprings. It seems to pop up now and again on the blogosphere and loads of people comment on these blog posts and it gets really heated sometimes. I tried to stay away from starting one of these discussions myself, cause, honestly, it really annoys me. I mean, it supadupa annoys me. More than two years I held out (that's approximateley how old this site is), but today I just can't hold...
October 5th, 2009 by Boris | Category: Articles | Continent: Asia | Country: Indonesia, Philippines, Samoa
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The team at Travel-Junkie has strong ties to the area with the recent catastrophies, especially Indonesia. I lived there for almost 2 years and travelled all over it and it saddens me that once again a disaster has struck, almost simultaniously in various countries. Because of this we ask everybody, who has a little extra to spare to donate.
Donations do have their misgivings. We understand that. During the 2004 Tsunami I lived in Indonesia and have talked to many people who were there and...
October 3rd, 2009 by Boris | Category: Articles | Continent: Asia | Country: Indonesia | City: Gili Trawangan
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Following on from the last three parts, today I have a little anecdote in two parts where things suddenly went wrong.
Jaques came into my office on Gili Trawangan to book a dive. I checked his credentials, sized him up, took his money and signed him up for a dive at Manta Point the next morning. He hadn't dived for almost a year, but refused the offer of a little refresher. Fair enough. He seemed to be very confident and let's not forget that a refresher plus a dive is the same price as...
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