The world’s largest, and some would say, most dangerous city on Earth is in Mexico. We visited and mostly were at risk from dying of hypothermia, because what no-one tells you is that it gets pretty nippy in the winter. Click here to see what you should do if you ever get there, and to read an account of what will happen if you’re fool enough to drive there.
Bit of a break there, eh? Anyway, if you’re driving from the US into Mexico, this is what you need to know about the potentially-tricky border crossing. Also, the best hotel in Acapulco, a very weird Christmas, and the reason that pleasant holidays make for terrible travel writing. Not that there’s any in here.
We save all the life-endangering drama of our epic 3,000km trip for the last day. Click here to find out what got killed and whether we’ve still got all our bits. Also: why “Dive” may be less a tourist activity and more a beginner’s guide to hostels in Cairns.
We fire ourselves out of Port Macquarie and visit Byron Bay, home of… Byron? Also, click here to see just how well the Australians do camping.
We get off the beaten track and visit Ban Lung, capital of the Ratanakiri province, Cambodia. Find out what to do when there are no tourists around by clicking here.
Four trucks, one of them double-decker, collect eight gigabytes of information over a weekend, while a team of around twenty people strive to keep the car on the road and as close to the edge of the envelope without killing anyone. Or at least as few people as possible.
