Category: Asia by Land
Atlantic Beach, NC
Atlantic Beach, North Carolina is home to an amazing history, fun attractions, and family-friendly activities for every age.
Foods You Recognize, Uses For Them That You Don’t
Beijing is a funny place. If you don’t have a sense of humor living here, you simply can’t survive. Some of the funniest things...
Book Review: The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 miles, 2 guys, 1 globe, no airplanes, by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran
Steve and Vali made a deal with each other. The first one to circumnavigate the globe by land would win a bottle of the most expensive...
How to raise money and find sponsors for the Mongol Rally
Having done quite a bit of research on how to find sponsors for our team in the 2010 Mongol Rally, we thought it might be helpful to write...
Top Ten Travel Websites
So its 2010 and to celebrate we’re looking for the top ten amateur travel sites on the internet. Help us find them! We’re...
Happy New Year from Abandon the Cube
We hope the New Year brings about lots of good things for all of our readers! Lauren and I will be in the US for the first quarter / half...
Caucasus and Turkey Newsletter Released
After a lot of hard work, Lauren has released our next newsletter. This issue covers the Azerbaijan, The Republic of Georgia, and...
The Movie Transsiberian
From the Beijing Train Station to the corrupt police on the far Eastern route of the Russian Trans-Siberian Railroad, the 2008 movie...
The Easiest Countries to Travel
After reading through some of our polls people have participated in throughout the site, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of...
Mongol Rally News Update
Planing for the 2010 Mongol Rally is in full swing at Abandon the Cube. We’ve set up a page on our website: Mongol Rally to enlighten...
Saint Thomas
Saint Thomas, of the US Virgin Islands, must have been a beautiful island….once. Or perhaps we were unfortunate in that the area we...
Funchal Island
Our cruise ship stopped in Funchal Island, owned by Portugal, which is a small island filled with wealth people, everything has to be...
MSC Cruises Review
We took a 17-day cruise from Venice to Ft. Lauderdale on the MSC Poesia, which had stops in Italy, Tunisia, Spain, Portugal, Virgin...
Top 5 Mediterranean Locations
Olympos – Olympos is a relatively concealed and close-knit community of hostels and beach-style tree-house cabanas. Very few tourists...
Slovenia and the Creepiest Castle
We arrived in Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital, three hours after departing Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. The train was a lovely design...
Sarajevo Flourishes
Our bus ride was somewhat of a highlight as far as nigh transportation goes. We were on the top floor of a double-decker bus, in the very...
The Night Train to Bulgaria
We decided to take the night train from Istanbul at 10:00pm across the western boards to Bulgaria. We planned to disembark before Sofia in...
The Bosphorus River Cruise
We jumped on an early tram and made our way down to the port the following morning. We arrived just in time as a huge line had already...
Welcome to Istanbul, Friend
Having arrived in Istanbul at 11:00pm, we were a little out of luck for transportation. We waited for the Metro and then took the trolley...
Homer’s Troy and Gallipoli
After a restful night, we awoke early to talk with the manager of the hostel about the package tours to Gallipoli and Troy. We were shocked...
Ephesus is Still Alive
After posing ridiculously on all of the old ruins and monuments we could find in the three ancient cities and camping for the night, we...
The Three Ancient Cities
Priene, Miletus and Didyma are three rather impressive ruins along the Aegean Coast that are smaller than Ephesus, but were important...
A Journey to Try One’s Patience
Although we had made a pact never to take another night bus, we found ourselves booked on the 12:30pm bus from Fethiye to Aydan, where we...
12 Islands Cruise
We arrived in Fethiye and were immediately hit by how relaxed the city seemed. Boats lined the coast, which was on a steep hill overlooking...
Olympos is Paradise
We experienced a taste of what hell must be like on the overnight bus from Cappadocia to Olympos. What was supposed to be an 11 hour ride...
