A photo posted by Yassine Laaroussi (@larrozzi) on Nov 10, 2014 at 7:37am PST For a month, I noticed most travelers in Koh Phangan were passersby, their immediate next destination would be Koh Tao. For a month I kept hearing about this island being the scuba diving Mecca of the world, I could already imagine what…
Happiness only real when shared—Christopher McCandless At a restaurant, In Haadrin, Koh phangan, head down, staring at my Shnitzel sandwitch, my second and last meal of the day, background sounds of the tv show “friends” playing. I feel a tap on my shoulder, I look up and no it’s not the waiter, it’s no…
Bangkok is much more than a simple transit to the southern islands in Thailand. Unlike most travelers who skip exploring this big chaotic city, I loved getting to know it, it took me 9 days to really feel its vibe and appreciate what it has to offer. Find out what happened on my new blog…
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson Day 1, Tuesday: Meeting my Host The bullet train to Beijing took about 6 hours from Shanghai, this, more than anything else, made me realize how enormous…
It’s been almost three months on the road already and Hitchhiking have always been something I wanted to try but I still never had the courage to not book that train or bus ticket and instead just take the road and let go of any negative thoughts, meeting other hitchhikers didn’t help much, it…
Some would call it crazy, some would call it adventurous, and many have already called it irresponsible, my long planning, has just come to an end, and now the fun part has just started. Six months In Asia, first stop Tokyo. Now if you asked me before I got there, what do you know about…
Going to Vancouver was a decision I made as soon as I saw I had enough points in my Aeroplan account that I can’t use in my trip to Asia since I’m eligible to get a free flight only if it’s a round-trip, it was kinda the same way I went to New York last November,…
Few weeks back I had this question from a friend on Facebook : how is the planning of the trip? I looked at it and I felt the need of hugging the person maybe because it was the first time I actually got asked that exact simple question since I’ve been planing this trip for at…
I’ve had my share of going to clubs for while before I cached the travel bug and decided to cut many expenses , and start saving in every way possible, what I noticed is when I used to go out, I would call some friend to join me and most of the time, they…
29 November 2013, My first time to New York, I dreamed about visiting this city for a long time, and I am definitely coming back and probably living there for a while. I am so happy I got into travel hacking, knowing how to travel cheaply helps me not only to compare many places and…