Foodborne Disease

By Deborah Sanborn

With a little help from NASA, great food can be a big part of your next great adventure ...read more

Tuberculosis

By Deborah Sanborn

An old disease makes a comeback in some parts of the globe and health experts tell travellers to exercise caution...read more

Posted in Health | No Comments »

Travel Health Insurance

By Deborah Sanborn

Statistically speaking, it probably isn't going to happen. but what if it does—and you’re the one it happens to?...read more

Posted in Health | No Comments »

Jungle Love

By Ian Wright

Ian Wright is mad for rainforests, "voodoo" medicine and especially orphaned orangutans...read more

Posted in Wright of Way | No Comments »

Backpackerz BUZZ: Issue 60

By Hostelling International

Hostelling International, for the most part, is all in its name. The world’s largest network of hostels includes more than 4,000 of them in over 80 countries. But the scope of this network extends well beyond its annual 35 million...read more

Posted in Hostelling International | No Comments »

Global Volunteer Guide 2006

By Outpost

Our annual comprehensive guide to global volunteering and making a difference overseas. Whether we have two weeks, two months or two years, more and more Canadians are signing up to teach in classrooms, provide medical aid, build schools and dig ditches around the world than ever before. From raw and eager teens to savvy 75-year-olds, [...]...read more

Posted in Volunteer | 3 Comments »

Loco for Coconut

By Don Douloff

Like blood pudding, sesame oil and black olives, coconut is a love-it-or-hate-it kind of food. Rich, subtly sweet and assertive, coconut’s flavour is as distinctive as it is irresistible...read more

Posted in Gourmet | No Comments »