Travel photo: Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Junks at Ha Long Bay, Vietnam Also read: Travel guide to Ho Chi Minh City / Saigon, Vietnam Travel in South East Asia

Lap-packing: the accessible indie traveller
Indie Travel Podcast exists to help inspire people to travel and give them the tools the need to do it (and hopefully to help people avoid our constant string of mistakes!). We’ve been talking with Craig Grimes of Accessible Travel for over a year now, and are excited to see Craig start his own series of wheelchair-travel videos … and doing it indie too. The first is on accessible travel in Barcelona, Spain. Accessible travel, or disabled travel, seems to be a fast-growing sector as cities work to make their facilities and transport systems more friendly for the “lap-packer”

7 reasons hostels rock and how to really enjoy them
Following 7 reasons hostels suck, here’s 7 for the other side of the fence. The podcast edition of this post talks through the points in both posts. You can listen here or click to subscribe and download it for free in iTunes. 1. Hostels are sociable Hostels are excellent places for meeting like-minded travellers. With a constant flow of people from all over the world, hostels are a global melting pot for peo

Travel photo: Yakushima, Japan
Cedars in the mist, Yakushima Japan Also read: Travel to Tokyo, Japan Travel photo: Yakushima, Japan is happily produced by The Indie

Travel Ninja – Review
Last week we had a look at Chris Guillebeau’s frequent flyer mile book, Frequent Flyer Master. It builds on a previous book, Travel Ninja, that we review today. The title (How to Become a Travel Ninja: Travel Hacking Anywhere in the World) has a hint of meme-heavy web humour but accurately describes the book’s goal: to help you travel more, and more cheaply. It focusses exclusively on airline travel, especially long-haul and round-the-world travel. While it