Posts Tagged ‘health’
Otp’s Guide to Keeping Your Genitals Healthy Abroad
When you’re living the backpacking dream, your daily itinerary can include things like cliff jumping, dive-bar crawling and hostel fornicating. The last thing on your mind is genital hygiene. But there comes a time when your junk could really use some personal attention and there’s more to protecting your goods than not touching your wiener [...]
What the F*ck is Bin Lang?
A nut with a buzz, Bin Lang is Taiwan’s second largest crop and people consume it like candy. Known to science dorks as Areca catechu and cool kids as a Betel Nut, it’s similar to chewing tobacco (with a bit of a high) and just as tooth-stainingly cancerous. Hawked on the streets by chicks in [...]
Lounging in Saigon: 5 Best Ways to Spend a Day Doing Nothing
In a city as fast-paced and perplexing as Ho Chi Minh City—a.k.a. Saigon—a dose of Adderall or a caffeine-loaded drink is necessary to keep up with the locals. Zipping motorbikes, towering skyscrapers manic peddlers and determined hustlers sometimes make Saigon hard to handle. The city may constantly be on fast-forward but when you’re running low on [...]
What the F*ck is Chou Doufu!?
Plug your nose and open wide—OTP’s serving up a healthy bite of “what the fuck,” this time as a steaming pile that possesses the smell of rot-gut death. It’s not a batch of Mama’s mystery meat, unless your mama is an Asian health food nut; it’s Chou Doufu, which literally translates to ‘Stinky Tofu.’ Even [...]
5 Fun Things to do in “Dangerous” Places (Part 1)
Playing it safe is for granny. You’ll never get the full experience of the world by just dipping the tip. Get your blood rushing by doing amazing things you thought were only reserved for for code green destinations in unlikely places. You won’t spontaneously grow an extra limb if you visit Chernobyl nor will you [...]
Backpackers Guide 101: Health & Safety
Just as you are unfamiliar with the places you plan to travel, your body needs time to adjust to its new surroundings. To microbes abroad, you are fresh meat. Being a backpacker puts you in a higher risk category for contracting random ailments as you will be more exposed to the elements. Let’s get your [...]
10 Essential Medical Supplies for any Backpacking Trip
Beside the requisite backpack and apparel, there are a few health related things you need to purchase. If you are not a hypochondriac, the below items should get you through any health issue that should arise abroad. If you are a hypochondriac, consider traveling in a plastic bubble dome. Lets get to it: Antibacterial Hand [...]
10 Step Guide to Backpacking Europe – What you need to know right now!
Entertaining the idea of traveling to Europe but don’t know where to get started? Well consider yourself lucky. OTP’s 10 step guide below breaks it down for you to get your travel juices flowing. 1. Hostels/accommodations: While the idea of spontaneously backpacking around Europe with no plan is tempting, it can also leave you with [...]
