Christ the Redeemer: Truly a wonder worth seeing. Brazil.
On a whirl wind one day visit to Rio there was one thing I HAD to do, visit Christo Redentor – or Christ the Redeemer. (As a girl who grew …
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Get covered in mud in Nha Trang, Vietnam
FUN FOR A FIVER. Mud Bath in Nha Trang You can’t say we don’t offer you a little bit of variety here at Five Dollar traveller… Mud baths! Now thats …
How to have a bath in a volcano – The Blue Lagoon Geothermal Spa Iceland
As an Aussie girl, the freezing wastes of the north Atlantic are a world away from home… The land of fire and ice is about as far from normality for …
Top 5 things to do in Barcelona
Vibrant. Intoxicating. Addictive. Barcelona is a city I will keep going back to. Life energy exudes from every corner, the modern and the classic fused together in one of the …
Why the East coast of Cozumel is way better than the west coast.
The Five Dollar Travellers discover why Cozumel is worth a visit… Hire a jeep and escape the tourist west coast to explore the unspoilt east coast, eat awesome sea food …
Icebergs, The Falkland Islands & Magellanic Penguins. My Antarctica Cruise Adventure!
There are not too many places these days that you can describe as untouched, pristine, not swarming with tourists. But I have visited a place where you cant even walk …
Dubai, can we find anything cheap?
Here’s another short story from the archive in the pre-5DT travel days. Its christmas in Dubai! Ok, I know what you are thinking, Dubai is a massive newly constructed tourist resort …
Tommo catches the travel bug: a retrospective on my first long term travel experience
Why Travel? I didn’t know, I’d been on plenty of holidays with my parents as a kid… some lamer than others. I’d been on a few trips into europe independently, …