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Top Attractions along the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

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How To Take The Worst Ever Travel Photos | Anti Travel Photography Tips

September 24, 2012

In recent months, I’ve quite regularly been contributing select travel photography tips, as a self-taught travel photographer, in order to hopefully help you improve your travel photography. I’ve covered topics such as changing your vantage point, taking candid portraits, ways to protect and share your travel photos and when you should upgrade your travel camera. [...]

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Backpacking Travel TV | Our New Youtube Travel Channel!

September 24, 2012

Backpacking Travel TV picture of Samuel and Audrey

The wait is officially over! We know you’ve been salivating for months in anticipation of a Backpacking travel youtube tv channel that will satisfy your palette. For those who love poorly edited, goofy and at times obscene travel videos, oh boy, do we have something in store for you! In all seriousness, Backpacking Travel TV [...]

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4 ways to save money while travelling

September 16, 2012

Exotic beach outside of North America by flickr user soschilds

Many have this preconceived notion that travel is expensive and something only the rich can afford to do. I’m here to dispel this myth entirely. In fact, travel can actually cost less per month than a regular lifestyle back home! When I was backpacking around Asia in 2011, I spent less than $1000 USD per month on [...]

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The People of Tanzania | Photo Essay

September 8, 2012

A young Masai girl with a baby on her back at Lake Manyara

The following photo essay is a wonderful guest post contribution by Dean Wickham. The heat of the midday sun beat down upon me as I walked down the dusty street in Mto wa Mbu. Surrounding me were rough mud and wood houses with banana leaf thatched roofs, with groves of bananas and sugar cane between them. [...]

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Lake Titicaca | Uros | Puno, Peru | Photo Essay

September 8, 2012

The colourful ladies of the Uros people, whose attire is reflected in the water, waiting to greet our tour boat - Lake Tititcaca, Peru.

Having visited Lake Titicaca from Bolivia several months prior to arriving back in Peru, I was ecstatic that my schedule allowed for enough time to see Lago Titicaca again from the Peruvian side of Puno. Lake Titicaca is of fairytale reputation – pristine blue waters that match the intensity and saturation of the sky, cotton [...]

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100 day diet & fitness challenge to get back in shape & lose weight

September 5, 2012

Not too long ago when I was healthy and fit

In many ways this is the best time of my life. I’ve been diligent about saving and being frugal and consequently I’ve never been in better shape financially. I’m thrilled that many of my travel related projects including this travel blog, Smiling Faces Travel Photos, Backpacking Travel Blog, my youtube travel channel and my vimeo [...]

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When should you upgrade your travel camera? Why I upgraded mine!

September 4, 2012

http://nomadicsamuel.com/about : A travel gallery from Nomadic Samuel Jeffery

When should I upgrade my travel camera? This is a question many of us ponder. With camera manufacturing companies constantly coming out with new and updated versions of models -with increasingly shortened life cycle periods – it’s enough to make anyone’s head spin. Do I need a camera with more mega-pixels? Should I get a faster [...]

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How To Create A Successful Travel Blog In Your First Year Of Blogging

August 28, 2012

Nomadic Samuel travel blogging on top of Machu Picchu

When I first started my travel blog just over a year ago I knew that it was going to be successful. It had to be. Failure was never an option. A lot of people start travel blogging wondering ‘how’ they will be able to compete with some of the other top travel blogs who are [...]

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Ways To Protect and Share Your Travel Photos

August 22, 2012

Sharing your travel photos by flickr user indi

I’ve heard many say they would rather have their camera stolen than have their precious travel photos erased permanently. In order to prevent this from happening there are a number of methods to back-up, store and showcase your amazing shots. It’s one thing to just have your photos backed up on-line or on a portable hard-drive, [...]

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Faces of Insadong – Seoul, South Korea

August 19, 2012

A lovely smiling Korean couple wander down Insadong with coffees in hand - Seoul, South Korea.

If all roads in Korea lead to Seoul, few roads in Seoul can compare with the bustling hive that is known as Insadong. Insadong is known as ‘the traditional’ street in Seoul where Koreans and foreigners converge on mass to sample a slice of traditional Korean music, performances, culture, street food, antiques, arts, crafts, restaurants [...]