Unwrapped travel

Just found this excellent little “thingy” that you can use to store all your electronic gizmos while you’re charging them on the road — kind of like a hammock for your iPod. It’s called a LOAD DING and while the website is in German, it’s pretty self explanatory — and a bargain!
Found via Gadling

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Slate ran this Friday a piece on using the internet as one’s main source of travel information for a trip to Thailand. After finding that Wikitravel just doesn’t travel well, we’re delighted to say Travelfish helped save the author’s trip. Give the story a read here.
Update:
I’ve been following some of the online discussion that has [...]

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Well it’s been a busy weekend and we managed to wrap up two more Travelfish Guides over the weekend. They’re both going for the bargain price of US$2.95 each — cheaper than a few BeerLaos and a BBQ fish!
The first covers the remote southern Lao provinces of Salavan, Sekong and Attapeu, while the other covers [...]

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So you’ve done the math twenty times but you’re still a few hundred dollars short in the budget department. Here’s ten ways to save money — US$1,400 to be exact — while travelling in Southeast Asia. Just think how much more you could do, see and experience with that extra $1,400! Read on to find [...]

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We’re looking for a couple of Thailand-based travel-writers. If any of the following sound familiar, then we’d love to hear from you.
1) You love to travel
2) You need to look at every flophouse in town before settling on a room
3) You draw up a sketch map of most spots you visit
4) You travel with sixteen [...]

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I’d never heard about “Bed Jumping” till I stumbled across this post about Bed Jumping at the Sakol Hotel in Hat Yai on the “Bed Jumping” site.
Hysterical pics of people, well, bed jumping.
Check it out

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As some Travelfish readers may have noticed, there’s a new link in the right column of the Travelfish site — Buy an eGuide!
Travelfish eGuides bring together the best of the Travelfish site into easy-to-use PDF formatted mini-guides designed for specific destinations. Currently we’ve got four of a planned 24 eGuides available, Siem Reap & Angkor [...]

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Pia Taylor over at Backpackers.com has a great round-up of possible gifts for a backpacker — could be a handy feature to zip over to some of your relatives before you go!

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Every now and then we get queries along the lines of:
‘If you run a website covering Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, why do you live in Indonesia?”
It’s a great question — the reason being thay one of us accepted a job here, transporting us from succulent Phnom Penh to chewy as leather Jakarta.
One reason we [...]

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As promised, below are a few happy snaps from Java’s Boroburdur. It was our first time there, and earthquakes, a bubbling volcano, terror attacks, both tsunamis (there was a second one last night — thankfully not as destructive, but still over 100 dead) have really taken a toll on Indonesia’s tourist industry — Yogyakarta (the [...]

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