Apr 25th, 2013 at 6:00PM:
We here at Gadling are airplane nerds. We take pictures of the view from the gate, our inflight meals, and even take portraits in the bathroom. Even my daughter has become an airplane nerd before the age of 2, stopping in her tracks and pointing to the sky at the sight of a plane flying over. Naturally, this Instagram shot caught my eye, for the view from the wing of runway traffic at Jakarta ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo Of The Day: Runway Traffic
Apr 25th, 2013 at 6:00PM:
We here at Gadling are airplane nerds. We take pictures of the view from the gate, our inflight meals, and even take portraits in the bathroom. Even my daughter has become an airplane nerd before the age of 2, stopping in her tracks and pointing to the sky at the sight of a plane flying over. Naturally, this Instagram shot caught my eye, for the view from the wing of runway traffic at Jakarta ...Trekking Couple Circles Planet Three Times In 424 Days
Apr 8th, 2013 at 3:00PM:
They started trekking the planet more than a year ago, promising to travel the globe bringing children in classrooms from around the world with them, virtually, as they visited scores of countries and continents. Now their journey is complete and Darren and Sandy Van Soye are back to tell about it.
The story begins in February 2012, when the couple from Southern California started on a ...Photo Of The Day: Buddha On The Beach In Bali
Feb 26th, 2013 at 5:00PM:
Now try saying that five times fast.
This Photo of the Day, from Instagram user terra_tripper, features a golden Buddha statue nestled in the sands of Sanur, Bali.
Ostensibly, he's there to imbue the beach with peace and zen. We just think it makes for a cool picture.
Do you have any great travel photos? You now have two options to enter your snapshots into the running for Gadling's ...Photo Of The Day: Cidomo - Gili Trawangan
Feb 23rd, 2013 at 5:00PM:
This Photo of the Day, titled "Cidomo - Gili Trawangan," comes from Gadling Flickr pool member Terra_Tripper and features a cidomo, a small horse-drawn carriage commonly found on the Islands of Lombok and the Gili Islands of Indonesia.
Part of his Bali/Lombok set on Flickr, Richard captions the image:
"By local ordinance, no motorized vehicles are allowed on Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno or ...Traveling Couple Hits 20 Countries In 312 Days On 3 Minutes Of Video
Feb 5th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
In a quest to tackle 30 must-have travel experiences before they turn 30, career breakers Gerard & Kieu of GQ trippin traveled 108,371 kilometers (67,338 miles) in 312 days through 20 countries for one adventure of a lifetime.
Shooting 1,266 videos along the way, the traveling couple ended up with 11 hours of video but has reduced it and their entire year of travel to just three ...
Video Of The Day: People Of The Coral Triangle
Jan 7th, 2013 at 6:00PM:
In today's video of the day, filmmaker James Morgan follows the people of the Bajau Laut, one of the last nomadic marine communities in the world who move between Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. These countries are part of the Coral Triangle, a roughly triangular geographic area that is called the "Amazon of the seas" because of its marine biodiversity. As you'll see in the ...
The Best Street Food In Amsterdam
Jan 3rd, 2013 at 12:00PM: Tourists don't come to Amsterdam to eat. The Dutch city of debauchery attracts legions of travelers for other things – like, say, flowers or pretty paintings or twee canals – all of which build up quit an appetite. So one would think the city would have a flourishing street food scene to feed all these munchies-craving visitors. And not just in terms of availability but that some ...Tim Leffel On The World's 21 Cheapest Countries
Dec 12th, 2012 at 9:00AM: Tim Leffel's mission is to help skinflints like me find travel destinations they can afford. He traveled around the world on a shoestring with his wife three times and decided to write a book about the world's cheapest countries after realizing that there was no single resource out there for travelers looking for bargain destinations. The fourth edition of his book, "The World's Cheapest ...Unexpected Offerings On A Return To Bali
Nov 22nd, 2012 at 10:00AM:
Last month, I spent a week on the Indonesian island of Bali as a guest of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. This was my first visit to that blessed place since I'd fallen in love with it 34 years ago.
Like me, the island had lost some of its innocence in the intervening years. Unlike my earlier trip, when the Balinese I met had simply welcomed me with wide eyes and hearts, this time ...Listen To 'In Bali With Baggage' On CBC's 'WireTap'
Nov 22nd, 2012 at 9:00AM: Jon Goldstein was able to publish our excellent series "In Bali With Baggage" over on "WireTap" this past weekend, marking the first time that a Gadling story has ever been broadcast on the North American radio waves.
You can check out the landing page for the show over on the CBC or subscribe to the weekly podcast here.
Our thanks to Mr. Golstein and the producers of "WireTap" for ...
In Bali With Baggage: Rince
Nov 8th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
[read earlier parts of "In Bali With Baggage" here]
As I wander Bali for the next few days, I can't stop thinking about the pink lotus incident, how bending down to pick up that flower inaugurated a flood of emotional introspection. On my last day here, I stop into a restaurant and have an iced coffee and, as I've been doing a lot of lately, pull out my notebook within which I've been ...In Bali With Baggage: Monkeys, A Cat, A Lotus Flower
Nov 7th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
[read earlier parts of "In Bali With Baggage" here]
Madai and I study the tourist map and decide our next stop will be a place marked as "The Monkey Temple." It is in Ubud, in the midst of a forest overrun with monkeys.
As we make our way, I find myself growing giddy, like a kid. One thinks one has hung out with monkeys because one has seen so much of them on TV and in movies. Wearing ...In Bali With Baggage: Madai
Nov 6th, 2012 at 10:00AM: [read earlier parts of "In Bali With Baggage" here]
Is it possible to avoid the snare of Bali's cheap drink, massages, great food and beaches to hit the countryside and visit temples? It seems like it'd take some will power. But as indicated in earlier installments, I come from educational film stock. Not amusement park ride stock so, not to brag or anything, but I think I can handle it.
I ...Photo Of The Day: Boats Off Jimbaran Beach
Nov 5th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
This Photo of the Day is titled "Boats Off Jimbaran Beach" and comes from Gadling Flickr pool member philbardino. It shows a variety of fishing boats anchored off Jimbaran Beach in Bali, Indonesia.
Jimbaran beach, on the West Coast of Bali, is small, secluded and offers stunning sunrise and sunset views.
For more on Bali, see Jonathan Goldstein's "In Bali With Baggage" series here ...In Bali With Baggage: A Night
Nov 5th, 2012 at 10:00AM: [read earlier parts of "In Bali With Baggage" here]
I will give travel this: it gives us an excuse. It allows us to get away with things we never could back home. In Bali I can have beer with my breakfast. I can take three baths during the day. I can spend a great deal of mid afternoon time staring at a tree and thinking about trees without the risk of running into an old friend from high ...In Bali With Baggage: A Massage
Nov 2nd, 2012 at 10:00AM:
[read earlier parts of "In Bali With Baggage" here]
Because they're so cheap and good, I find myself wandering from massage to massage. I walk out of one and right into the next, like I'm trick-or-treating. In the Balinese style of massage, the masseuse gets up on the small of your back and rides you like a horse – a nice horse that has worked hard in the field all day and has earned ...In Bali With Baggage: Getting A Look Around
Nov 1st, 2012 at 10:00AM:
[read earlier parts of "In Bali With Baggage" here]
Perhaps it is some fluke of Balinese grammar. Perhaps the words for "lonely" and "alone" are the same. But the hotel staff keeps asking me, "traveling lonely?" and I say, "Yes."
"No friends?" they continue, just to make sure.
"No," I say, feeling my nose being rubbed in it. "No friends."
In my short time here, I've already learned ...In Bali With Baggage: Getting There
Oct 31st, 2012 at 10:00AM: [read earlier parts of "In Bali With Baggage" here]
It's the first time I've ever traveled business class and getting on ahead of economy feels strange. I am now one of those guys I've always hated. Seated at the front of the plane as the second-classers trudge by, grunting and depleted, I'm tempted to call out, "I was once like you." But instead, I sip my sparkling wine and fiddle with my ...In Bali With Baggage: Childhood
Oct 30th, 2012 at 10:00AM: [read earlier parts of "In Bali With Baggage" here]
My ambivalence about travel probably began in childhood with our family's summer road trips. They just weren't fun. Except for the time my father had to pull into a Frontier Town parking lot to urinate and possibly weep in a locked toilet stall, we never stopped any place good. We just drove along, wanting to make good time, our colons ...In Bali With Baggage: The Unfunnest Man Goes To The Funnest Place On Earth
Oct 29th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
For guys like me, men who soldier through life with their chins glued to their chests, men who have never stopped to smell a single rose once, what is the point of travel? Travel insurance, shots, $15 sandwiches at the airport that usually involve cheddar jack. Feh.
And let me be clear: I do not say "feh" with pride. I don't even know if such a thing is even possible. I dribble my puny feh ...
