Posts Tagged ‘hostel’
Sex in Brazil: A Guide to Getting Laid for Girls, Guys and Gays
A simple Google image search reveals that Brazil is the largest South American country in more ways than one. With an overwhelming number of fantastic assets, Brazil has a solid reputation as the lustiest country south of the Equator. Sexy, sure—but easy? No way. Despite its racy rep, this nation isn’t about sloppy one-night stands [...]
Backpacking in Style: How to Look Less Like a Hobo
Being mistaken for a homeless vagabond is a professional hazard when you’re a broke ass backpacker. Granted: you’re lugging everything that matters on your back, the crowded hostel only has one bathroom, and you’re too cheap for a haircut. But you don’t have to look like a hobo (or worse, an obnoxious American). Check out [...]
OTP’s Guide to Partying Your Ass Off in Turkey
The words “wild” and “turkey” have always gone together well. If done right, the country will treat you much more kindly in the morning than the 80 proof, puke-inducing bourbon. We’re here to show you how to go a mile past awesome and make your night especially Turkish with OTP’s Guide to Partying Your Ass [...]
What the F*ck is Balut?
Even Andrew Zimmer would have a hard time swallowing some of the outrageously gnarly shit Asians choke down. Consuming a pseudo-fetus is probably frowned upon by most Americans, but it’s totally the norm in Southeast Asia. Locals eat the shit out of fertilized duck and chicken eggs, known as balut in the Philippines or trung vit lon [...]
OTP’s Guide to the Fire Festival of Las Fallas (A Pyromaniacs Dream)
Need your pyro fix and Burning Man, Guy Fawkes and Amori Nebuta just aren’t doing the trick? Get yourself to Valencia, Spain for Las Fallas instead—a rip roarin’ crazy time with enough explosions and flames to calm your insatiable fire fiend twitches. Wait, why are we burning stuff? In true Catholic-Spanish tradition, the boozing, burning and general debauchery [...]
OTP’s Guide to Partying Your Ass Off in Taipei
The best thing to come out of World War II (after Volkswagens), is Taiwan’s bustling culture. More than factory-manufactured plastics or free wi-fi, Taiwan’s capital brings pub-fries and snake-blood shots into the mix. OTP’s got your Guide to Partying Your Ass Off in Taipei all straightened out. Set up camp and get the party started [...]
Confessions From Abroad: Broke Ass Gypsy Adventures
By: Shit Happens Somehow I managed to spend $87 of the $100 I brought to Nicaragua’s Ometepe Island, and lose my debit card all in one drunken debaucherous night. I was left with a grand total of $13 to get back to Costa Rica. Using my advanced freeloader radar, I managed to find a band [...]
Sex in Cuba: A Guide to Getting Laid
It’s telling that pinga, slang equivalent of ‘penis,’ is one of the most frequently used words in Cuba. The go-to insult for anyone and his mother—especially his mother— it’s used in about as many different connotations as “fuck” is in America. You can eat pinga, talk pinga, or fuck pinga; and whether you’re giving or [...]
OTP’s Guide to the Best Coffee In The World
Americans guzzle 122.6 trillion cups of coffee a year and we’re not alone in loving our liquid-crack. Trade imperialism (a.k.a. screwing poor people royally) sucks. We’re here to break down some bean essentials and help you fight the power and get your cup o’ joe straight from the source. Use OTP’s Guide to the Best Coffee [...]
Confessions From Abroad: Nude and Confused in Lagos, Portugal
By: Beer Bong Betty A bunch of friends and I spent a weekend in Lagos, Portugal, which is basically a Mediterranean party paradise. We stayed at the Rising Cock Hostel – no joke. Our last night in town was a Sunday and nobody was out, but my last surviving wingwoman and I found a place [...]
