Don’t know what to buy for your traveler friends and family? Holiday season has come! Did you finish your holiday shopping yet? If you are a reader of Runaway Juno, I bet you are going to buy the holiday gifts to some of your traveler friends. Long-term travelers, holiday travelers, travel bloggers, […]
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The reason to visit Iceland in winter I started and finished my Runaway Europe project in Iceland. The route has been completed clean and nice. The face of Iceland in August and November were quite different – well, it was summer and winter, and I liked them both. Somehow it felt right to be surrounded
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‘Off the beaten track’ is the magic word for getting travelers’ attention. We want something different. Funny, when you think about the old days when not many people were traveling, doing typical things were the best. Doing things that everyone knows. I call it the well beaten track. The well beaten track can be dull,
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This is what you have to do in Hoi An, Vietnam — getting the tailor made clothes. There are more than 400 tailor shops around the town for everything: dress, skirts, shirts, bikinis, shoes, accessories and even jewelries. You can custom made whatever you want. I decided to explore the tailor made dress experience. And coincidently,
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Yangtze River Cruise was officially my first luxury-scenic cruise experience. I’m not exactly ‘luxury’ type of a traveler, but I wanted to experience what I don’t normally do. Four days of the cruise was one of the highlights of my China trip, no doubt. Because of the scenery and because of the
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“The natural world doesn’t come with an instruction leaflet, so it teaches you to use your creative imagination.” It pretty much sums up what I think about travel. This is a part of the news article from BBC how nature deficit is harming children. Throughout many interviews I did with fellow
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One of the best things about being in a tropical country is their fruit. How can I resist having mango, mangosteen, and papaya everyday? It is more desirable because I couldn’t get them in my home country; where there are four significant seasons. And of course, they are sweet and juicy, sour and
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How to Prevent Getting Malaria? — Here are advices from Travel Experts! When we decided to stay in Laos for few weeks, I got worried about getting malaria. I’m very easy target to mosquitos – to this day, I don’t know the reason. And just in time, there was a BBC article
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Travel Tips: Why you need to plan extra time while traveling Time, time, time… Time is always an issue during travels. We are late or early, stuck in traffic, stressed out… Especially if you are having a short vacation, time can be an issue every single day. You would think “I want
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“I need to go to holiday shopping for my family back home and I have no idea what to buy!” I’ve heard some concerns about the holiday shopping from my expat friends. Yes, it can be hard if you are new here. What to buy, how much should I spend, and am I getting a
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