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Has technology ruined travel? — travelonastustring
The travellers at the hostel laze on unwashed cushions in oversized chairs, flicking through dog-eared travel guides and outdated magazines. One of them pulls out a laptop. ‘Can you believe people ar...
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📢 New post: Has technology ruined travel?
"In early 2006, when backpacking in West Africa, a fellow traveller was aghast at someone travelling with a laptop. In the two decades since, so much has changed."
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"In early 2006, when backpacking in West Africa, a fellow traveller was aghast at someone travelling with a laptop. In the two decades since, so much has changed."
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Day 1 in Iraq 🇮🇶 crossing from Kuwait.
I'll be travelling south to north over the next 3 weeks.
If you want to follow along most of the action will be on my IG 👇🏾
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I'll be travelling south to north over the next 3 weeks.
If you want to follow along most of the action will be on my IG 👇🏾
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November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Day 1 in Iraq 🇮🇶 crossing from Kuwait.
I'll be travelling south to north over the next 3 weeks.
If you want to follow along most of the action will be on my IG 👇🏾
instagram.com/travelonastust…
I'll be travelling south to north over the next 3 weeks.
If you want to follow along most of the action will be on my IG 👇🏾
instagram.com/travelonastust…
📢 New post: Has technology ruined travel?
"In early 2006, when backpacking in West Africa, a fellow traveller was aghast at someone travelling with a laptop. In the two decades since, so much has changed."
Read more ➡️
www.travelonastustring.com/stories/tech...
"In early 2006, when backpacking in West Africa, a fellow traveller was aghast at someone travelling with a laptop. In the two decades since, so much has changed."
Read more ➡️
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Has technology ruined travel? — travelonastustring
The travellers at the hostel laze on unwashed cushions in oversized chairs, flicking through dog-eared travel guides and outdated magazines. One of them pulls out a laptop. ‘Can you believe people ar...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
📢 New post: Has technology ruined travel?
"In early 2006, when backpacking in West Africa, a fellow traveller was aghast at someone travelling with a laptop. In the two decades since, so much has changed."
Read more ➡️
www.travelonastustring.com/stories/tech...
"In early 2006, when backpacking in West Africa, a fellow traveller was aghast at someone travelling with a laptop. In the two decades since, so much has changed."
Read more ➡️
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Stu OBrien talks about his 3 favourite countries @travelonastustring.bsky.social
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Top 3 Favourite Countries: Stu O'Brien from Travel on a Stu-String
Top 3 Favourite Countries: Stu O'Brien, Australian travel writer, humanitarian worker and now travel blogger over at Travel on a Stu-String.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Stu OBrien talks about his 3 favourite countries @travelonastustring.bsky.social
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📢 New post: Tombstone Tourism 🪦
The imagination of humanity, particularly when it concerns death, is endlessly fascinating. One of the best ways to learn about death practices when travelling is to visit cemeteries or other places of burial or cremation.
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The imagination of humanity, particularly when it concerns death, is endlessly fascinating. One of the best ways to learn about death practices when travelling is to visit cemeteries or other places of burial or cremation.
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Tombstone Tourism — travelonastustring
The imagination of humanity, particularly when it concerns death, is endlessly fascinating. One of the best ways to learn about death practices when travelling is to visit cemeteries or other places o...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📢 New post: Tombstone Tourism 🪦
The imagination of humanity, particularly when it concerns death, is endlessly fascinating. One of the best ways to learn about death practices when travelling is to visit cemeteries or other places of burial or cremation.
www.travelonastustring.com/stories/tomb...
The imagination of humanity, particularly when it concerns death, is endlessly fascinating. One of the best ways to learn about death practices when travelling is to visit cemeteries or other places of burial or cremation.
www.travelonastustring.com/stories/tomb...
Does anyone know countries that accept passports with less than 6 months left on them?
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September 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Does anyone know countries that accept passports with less than 6 months left on them?
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#TravelCommunity #TravelTribe
World Tourism Day 2025: Spotlight on Malaysia 🇲🇾
There are few countries where you can dine on world class cuisine, hike through rainforests, relax on pristine beaches, and explore a capital city with mosques, temples, and one of the world’s largest caves.
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There are few countries where you can dine on world class cuisine, hike through rainforests, relax on pristine beaches, and explore a capital city with mosques, temples, and one of the world’s largest caves.
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World Tourism Day 2025: Spotlight on Malaysia — travelonastustring
There are few countries where you can dine on world class cuisine, hike through rainforests, relax on pristine beaches, and explore a capital city with mosques, temples, and one of the world’s largest...
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September 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
World Tourism Day 2025: Spotlight on Malaysia 🇲🇾
There are few countries where you can dine on world class cuisine, hike through rainforests, relax on pristine beaches, and explore a capital city with mosques, temples, and one of the world’s largest caves.
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There are few countries where you can dine on world class cuisine, hike through rainforests, relax on pristine beaches, and explore a capital city with mosques, temples, and one of the world’s largest caves.
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Exploring Australia's oldest European cemetery 🪦
Home to around 50 'First Fleeters' and the infamous magistrate Samuel Marsden, known as the flogging parson.
Home to around 50 'First Fleeters' and the infamous magistrate Samuel Marsden, known as the flogging parson.
August 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Exploring Australia's oldest European cemetery 🪦
Home to around 50 'First Fleeters' and the infamous magistrate Samuel Marsden, known as the flogging parson.
Home to around 50 'First Fleeters' and the infamous magistrate Samuel Marsden, known as the flogging parson.
🇹🇼 In Samoa, Always Say Yes 🇹🇼
"To approach travel with an ‘always say yes’ attitude is to embrace a greater unknown than what already awaits. It is to trust in the kindness of strangers and the hand of fate."
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"To approach travel with an ‘always say yes’ attitude is to embrace a greater unknown than what already awaits. It is to trust in the kindness of strangers and the hand of fate."
Read more here 👇🏾
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In Samoa, Always Say Yes — travelonastustring
To approach travel with an ‘always say yes’ attitude is to embrace a greater unknown than what already awaits. It is to accept invitations and propositions, to welcome opportunities and offers. It is ...
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August 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🇹🇼 In Samoa, Always Say Yes 🇹🇼
"To approach travel with an ‘always say yes’ attitude is to embrace a greater unknown than what already awaits. It is to trust in the kindness of strangers and the hand of fate."
Read more here 👇🏾
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"To approach travel with an ‘always say yes’ attitude is to embrace a greater unknown than what already awaits. It is to trust in the kindness of strangers and the hand of fate."
Read more here 👇🏾
www.travelonastustring.com/stories/in-s...
Quarandiaries: This journey is one of anti-travel. A trip to nowhere. A stationary voyage. We are about to enter hotel quarantine. A fortnight inside.
A look back at #Covid times 👇🏽
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A look back at #Covid times 👇🏽
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Quarandiaries — travelonastustring
This journey is one of anti-travel. A trip to nowhere. A stationary voyage. We are about to enter hotel quarantine. A fortnight inside.
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July 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Quarandiaries: This journey is one of anti-travel. A trip to nowhere. A stationary voyage. We are about to enter hotel quarantine. A fortnight inside.
A look back at #Covid times 👇🏽
#TravelCommunity #TravelAddicts
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A look back at #Covid times 👇🏽
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This month's article is a long one, so put on the kettle, ease into your favourite chair, and read all about Mera Peak 🗻 🇳🇵
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Above the Clouds: Hiking Mera Peak — travelonastustring
Mera Peak stands at an imposing 6, 476 m and is Nepal’s highest trekking route. Each year, hundreds of visitors undertake the journey to Mera Peak, which traverses some of Nepal’s most spectacular mou...
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June 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This month's article is a long one, so put on the kettle, ease into your favourite chair, and read all about Mera Peak 🗻 🇳🇵
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You have 2 weeks, what are you choosing?
🇺🇿 🇰🇿 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan
🇺🇿 🇰🇬 Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan
Another Stan combo?
🇺🇿 🇰🇿 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan
🇺🇿 🇰🇬 Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan
Another Stan combo?
May 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
You have 2 weeks, what are you choosing?
🇺🇿 🇰🇿 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan
🇺🇿 🇰🇬 Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan
Another Stan combo?
🇺🇿 🇰🇿 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan
🇺🇿 🇰🇬 Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan
Another Stan combo?
Happy #TravelTuesday, everyone 🗺
Each month, I send a little email update with my monthly article. If you'd like to sign up, visit the link here 👇🏽
Happy travels! 🌍
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Happy travels! 🌍
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May 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Happy #TravelTuesday, everyone 🗺
Each month, I send a little email update with my monthly article. If you'd like to sign up, visit the link here 👇🏽
Happy travels! 🌍
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Each month, I send a little email update with my monthly article. If you'd like to sign up, visit the link here 👇🏽
Happy travels! 🌍
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Updated, post Kinabalu and Mera Peak 🗻
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Top 10 Tips for Altitude Hiking — travelonastustring
travel writing stu o'brien machu picchu kilimanjaro annapurna nepal inca trail peru kenya hiking altitude mountain climbing
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May 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Updated, post Kinabalu and Mera Peak 🗻
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Planning the next trip of 2025... ✈️
May 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Planning the next trip of 2025... ✈️
'The earth coloured exterior of #Kathmandu Airport is a familiar sight. The feelings of reacquainting with an old friend, a former lover, stir within. Nerves, excitement, butterflies in the stomach. How much, I wonder, have things changed in a decade?' 🇳🇵
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Return to the Mountain Kingdom — travelonastustring
The earth coloured exterior of Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport is a familiar sight when the plane touches down at noon. The feelings of reacquainting with an old friend, a former lover, st...
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May 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
'The earth coloured exterior of #Kathmandu Airport is a familiar sight. The feelings of reacquainting with an old friend, a former lover, stir within. Nerves, excitement, butterflies in the stomach. How much, I wonder, have things changed in a decade?' 🇳🇵
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An amazing 3 weeks in Nepal comes to an end today, but I'm leaving with so much to write about. I'm looking forward to sharing the stories with you all... 😁 🇳🇵
April 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
An amazing 3 weeks in Nepal comes to an end today, but I'm leaving with so much to write about. I'm looking forward to sharing the stories with you all... 😁 🇳🇵
A successful summit of Mera Peak early on Saturday morning, and an amazing 10 days in the mountains 🗻🇳🇵
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April 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A successful summit of Mera Peak early on Saturday morning, and an amazing 10 days in the mountains 🗻🇳🇵
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#TravelCommunity #Nepal
#TravelAddicts #TravelTuesday
#TravelCommunity #Nepal
April 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🇳🇵Aanandadi Lokeshwar Temple in Chobhar, dedicated to the Hindu Gods Shiva and Parvati.
Worshippers nail metal plates to the inside walls as an accompaniment to their prayers.
Chobhar is a nice break from the crowds in central #Kathmandu, with spectacular views of the valley.
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Worshippers nail metal plates to the inside walls as an accompaniment to their prayers.
Chobhar is a nice break from the crowds in central #Kathmandu, with spectacular views of the valley.
#TravelCommunity
April 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🇳🇵Aanandadi Lokeshwar Temple in Chobhar, dedicated to the Hindu Gods Shiva and Parvati.
Worshippers nail metal plates to the inside walls as an accompaniment to their prayers.
Chobhar is a nice break from the crowds in central #Kathmandu, with spectacular views of the valley.
#TravelCommunity
Worshippers nail metal plates to the inside walls as an accompaniment to their prayers.
Chobhar is a nice break from the crowds in central #Kathmandu, with spectacular views of the valley.
#TravelCommunity
"The mountains are calling, and I must go - to Nepal" 🇳🇵
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April 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"The mountains are calling, and I must go - to Nepal" 🇳🇵
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📢 New post: The independent guide to hiking Mt Kinabalu 🇲🇾
"Rising to 4,095 metres above sea level, Mt Kinabalu is the highest mountain in Malaysia and one of the most accessible summits in Southeast Asia."
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"Rising to 4,095 metres above sea level, Mt Kinabalu is the highest mountain in Malaysia and one of the most accessible summits in Southeast Asia."
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The independent guide to hiking Mt Kinabalu — travelonastustring
Rising to 4,095 metres above sea level, Mt. Kinabalu is the highest mountain in Malaysia and one of the most accessible summits in Southeast Asia.
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April 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
📢 New post: The independent guide to hiking Mt Kinabalu 🇲🇾
"Rising to 4,095 metres above sea level, Mt Kinabalu is the highest mountain in Malaysia and one of the most accessible summits in Southeast Asia."
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"Rising to 4,095 metres above sea level, Mt Kinabalu is the highest mountain in Malaysia and one of the most accessible summits in Southeast Asia."
Read more 👇🏽
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🏞 Fugitive Travel: Tali Karng Retreat
"Gunaikurnai country, in Victoria’s southeast, has hosted many fugitive travellers. From colonial era outlaws to First Nations resistance fighters & armed gangs of bushrangers, the area boasts a chequered history."
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"Gunaikurnai country, in Victoria’s southeast, has hosted many fugitive travellers. From colonial era outlaws to First Nations resistance fighters & armed gangs of bushrangers, the area boasts a chequered history."
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Fugitive Travel: Tali Karng Retreat — travelonastustring
Gunaikurnai country, in Victoria’s southeast, has hosted many fugitive travellers. From colonial era outlaws to First Nations resistance fighters and armed gangs of bushrangers, the area boasts a cheq...
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March 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
🏞 Fugitive Travel: Tali Karng Retreat
"Gunaikurnai country, in Victoria’s southeast, has hosted many fugitive travellers. From colonial era outlaws to First Nations resistance fighters & armed gangs of bushrangers, the area boasts a chequered history."
www.travelonastustring.com/stories/fugi...
"Gunaikurnai country, in Victoria’s southeast, has hosted many fugitive travellers. From colonial era outlaws to First Nations resistance fighters & armed gangs of bushrangers, the area boasts a chequered history."
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Just over a week until I start my hike of Mt #Kinabalu, and I go and drop my bike handle on my toe 😬
(I won't post a pic - unless you like looking at that stuff)
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(I won't post a pic - unless you like looking at that stuff)
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February 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Just over a week until I start my hike of Mt #Kinabalu, and I go and drop my bike handle on my toe 😬
(I won't post a pic - unless you like looking at that stuff)
#TravelersTales 🇲🇾
#TravelAddicts
#TravelCommunity
(I won't post a pic - unless you like looking at that stuff)
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#TravelCommunity
Looking forward to a week of Malaysian food, starting this time next week! 🇲🇾
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February 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Looking forward to a week of Malaysian food, starting this time next week! 🇲🇾
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