Wellington - German tourist Julia Jahn, 20, kept telling herself she was too young to die as she struggled for five hours to keep her head above water after her kayak became trapped on a New Zealand river, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. I was th…
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A CULTURE of binge drinking among backpackers is driving up risky sex and rates of sexually transmitted infections, specialists have warned.
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Joseph Hoyt was a 22-year-old backpacker on the Grecian islands when he first heard of the mountainous peaks and sweltering deserts of Afghanistan. Fresh out of college and armed with savings from a year as a medical orderly, he was in Europe to do what many 20-somethings do: lose, or possibly find, himself in travel.
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A BACKPACKER is in intensive care after being pulled from the water off Hayman Island, where she had been on a snorkelling trip.
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Leticia, Colombia/Tabatinga, Brazil - Breakfast consists of scrambled eggs with chili sauce and refried beans in Columbia. For lunch there is charcoal-grilled fish in Peru. And rounding things off at sundown are caipirinha cocktails in Brazil. What s…
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A BACKPACKER found unconscious in the water during a Hayman Island snorkelling trip has died in hospital.
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A BACKPACKER is in a critical condition after being found unconscious in the water during a Hayman Island snorkelling trip.
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A culture of binge drinking among backpackers is driving up risky sex and rates of sexually transmitted infections in Sydney, specialists say.
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THE owners of a backpacker hostel in the New Town face being closed down after their retrospective planning application was recommended for refusal.
Source: IRIN On the surface, the historic northern city of Cartagena on Colombia’s Caribbean coast is an up-market tourist destination, with cruise boat passengers strolling through the old, walled city’s maze of narrow streets as sight-seers duck into air-conditioned boutiques and cafés to escape the tropical heat.
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