If you’re anything like the team at DontFlyGo (undeniably handsome and quick-witted) then you’ll love spending hours hitting up YouTube and pouring over all the travel goodness there is on display.
From sumo wrestling, to hitchhiking whole countries, there’s plenty of entertaining moments to feast on from these cracking YouTube Travel Channels.
Which ones do you dig the loudest? Read More
Before the days of flights to Tenerife and underwater train tunnels, overland travel routes and long distance trade played a major role in the cultural, religious, and artistic exchanges that took place between ancient civilisations across the globe. In more recent history, overland travel routes have been used by smugglers and soldiers alike for the purpose of going unnoticed. While routes such as the Silk Road and Orient Express are still occasionally trodden by the adventurous tourist, other overland routes have been forgotten by history.
Here at DontFlyGo we’re going to unearth these old routes of time past and let the spotlight shine upon them one again.
Which ones do you fancy re-treading? Read More
You know we love all things overland travel here at DontFlyGo.com. So what better way to celebrate it than take a look at some of the world’s top overland travel journeys?
Whether an extended adventure-style holiday, or a short sortie in a converted bus or truck led by a tour leader, overland journeys are there to be enjoyed. The head start Marco Polo might have had thanks to his thirteenth century expedition from Italy to Khan’s court in China? Don’t worry. In exploring some of these greats routes you’ll be just as good as any old Venetian! Read More
So you’re all packed up and ready to go on the adventure of your life now are you? Well, whether you’re prepared or not, those cheap holidays you’ve been looking forward to are about to take a turn for the worse.
Strapped in on your overland odyssey, you begin to encounter what appears to be more than just a bump in the road. Shaken but not deterred, you continue a little further on down that path. Fortunately this time you’re lucky. Everything works out fine but you’re still glad you took the time to shop for cheap life insurance. Sailing on to your final destination, you crack open the beers and let the wind blow through your hair.
Still it’s a close shave. And for plenty that have gone before you, on other roads of danger and peril, the story didn’t quite turn out the same. Monster roads? Oh there are plenty.
Here’s DontFlyGo’s list of twenty roads you want do your damn hardest to avoid on your overland travels. Read More
To kick off this month, we’re featuring the OEX, a “overland truck” designed by Hamid Reza Bekhradi, which is set to come into full force in the travel world in 2020. Read More