Posts Tagged ‘India’
Bootleg Drinks Around the World
Booze can be damn expensive, hard to come by or downright illegal in some parts of the world. But as they say in the brewing community, “where there’s a still there’s a way”. To help you understand the extent some people go through for their buzz, OTP’s cooked up some of the funkiest, dangerous [...]
F*ck Your Therapist, Go to an Ashram Instead
Made popular by the chick flick, Eat Pray Love, Ashrams aren’t just good backdrops for aging pretty woman, Julia Roberts. They are real mental exploration compounds (sounds like Heaven’s Gate, but it’s far from) and shit hasn’t changed much in Indian Ashrams in the past thousand years or so—it’s always been about peace of mind [...]
Cheap Volunteer: 5 Budget Friendly Volunteerships in Mumbai
Make better sense of the Mumbai madness by adding some structure to your trip. Navigating through a city that moves at the speed of light will scramble your mind and volunteering gives you a solid schedule, clear goals and the ability to interact with needy people at a micro level. OTP sets you on [...]
Top 10 Backpacking Travel Destinations for 2011
Our Top 10 Backpacking Travel Destinations for 2010, delivered an amazing list of fresh territories to explore. This year, we’re bringing you a brand spanking new, 100% all organic, freshly squeezed batch of places to ponder with OTP’s Top 10 Backpacking Travel Destinations for 2011. Get ready to rip your backpack to shreds. Beaches: Croatia [...]
Sex in India: A Guide to Getting Laid for Girls, Guys and Gays
With more sexual history than that pregnant chick from high school—India is, after all, where the Kama Sutra (ancient porn) came from. Choose amongst 1.18 billion sexy candidates and outsmart over 2000 years of bold-faced patriarchy with OTP’s Guide to Getting Laid in India. Your quest for pootie-tang begins now. India’s sex life is very [...]
Otp’s Guide to the World of Gypsy Tactics
Lost, elusive, and sneaky as hell, gypsies are out to steal your shit. You know the stereotype—long skirts, jingling bells, headscarves, living the free life. You may share the wanderlust lifestyle, but you know they’re pulling some crafty schemes to keep it going and unless you can hop on their nomadic bandwagon, you ain’t nothing [...]
OTP’s Guide to Partying Your Ass Off in Malaysia
Looking to travel Asia but broke as a hostel mattress? Forget the usual suspects and opt for Malaysia, a sort-of CliffsNotes to the continent, instead. An Asian stew simmering with Taiwanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Singaporea and Thai hotties—Malaysia is ripe for the sampling with a little bit of game and a lot of Tiger Beer. If [...]
What the F*ck is a Sherpa?
Long before Bear Grylls was wrestling lions and drinking his own piss on Man vs. Wild, there was a group of outdoorsmen who could scale mountains blindfolded—with a grown man on their backs. Sherpas, found mostly in Eastern Asia, are known for their superhuman mountaineering abilities. Furthermore, their trekking gear is usually sub par and [...]
Top 10 Things to Do in Malaysia on a Backpacker’s Budget
Ridiculous nature, culture and sexiness make Malaysia the G-spot of Southeast Asia and just like that special place, there’s a thousand different ways to hit it. These ten cheap-ass destinations are just as fun for gutter punks as they are for Louis Vuitton brand-hoes. Put on your adventure pants and follow OTP through these 10 [...]
OTP’S Guide to Partying Your Ass Off in Goa
To make up for being the smallest state in India , Goa developed a huge party complex. Squeeze in as much sleep as possible on the overnight bus or train ride there from Mumbai because, in Goa, between hippy strong-hold Arambol, rave central Anjuna, and Sunburn-spot Candolim, blinking will be the only shut eye you’ll get for days. Goa is the [...]
