– 75 World’s Greatest Adventures
- Travel Gear and Clothing Designed to take you further
- Travel Health Atlas

This issue features the annual Global Travel Guide including: best trips of 2006, five news stories from the Outpost world, gear essentials and travel health guide plus much much more.

FEATURES

19_BEST TRIPS OF 2006
Don’t get your socks in a knot about where to go – feast your travel toes on these 75 select trips. Consider trip #5, trekking with Touching the Void’s Simon Yates in Pakistan, or #40, kitesurfing in the Canaries. Then there’s #51, river-paddling in Guyana, and #75, doing Guatemala’s Lava Loop. Or if you’re still getting over March of the Penguins take trip #52 to a recently discovered colony of Emperors. Trips guaranteed to leave you breathless, blistered and yearning for more.

43_FULLY EQUIPPED
As you start planning your travels for 2006, expedition traveller and Outpost Editor-at-Large Kevin Vallely steps outside to check out the travel gear and clothing essentials designed to take you further.

DEPARTMENTS

07_TRIPPING
ALIEN INVADERS AND YOGA THIEVES
Five stories from the Outpost world that you probably didn’t hear about in 2005

11_COMIX
WELCOME TO MY COUNTRY:
The boys hit the Bangkok Film Festival

12_SOFT MACHINE
THE GLOBAL TRAVEL HEALTH ATLAS
From the most common to the almost rare, the regional health hazards you need to keep tabs on

16_MEC’S THE TRAVELLER’S EDGE
Tips to make the most of your travels

66_WRIGHT OF WAY
THE SOUND OF ONE WRIGHT CLAPPING
A compendium of Ian Wright’s original adages on the long road to bliss.
RESOURCES

62_BACKPACKERS BUZZ
Travel news and updates from Hostelling International Alberta and British Columbia