Lexie Alford holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to travel to every country in the globe
Lexie Alford holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to travel to every country on the globe. All 196 of them. During her globetrotting she discovered some places so dangerous that she recommends only intrepid travellers should attempt to visit them – and the average tourist should stay away.
The 25-year-old Californian, who has nearly half a
‘The shaman poured the dense, black liquid and summoned us forward individually. It tasted disgusting, it smelt vile but it felt good to drink.
‘It soon kicked in. I was locked in a prison. Then the door flew open. It was my dad, dressed as I remember him when I was five years old.’
The experience of taking ayahuasca on Costa Rica will remain one of the most vivid and shocking of Juliet Owen-Nuttall’s life.
Juliet during the experience. She
The recent high-profile kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico exposes the increasingly popular and dangerous trend of medical tourism, experts warn.
The four kidnapping victims, two of whom are now dead, were in Matamoros, in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, doing what more than a million Americans do each year — seeking cut-price cosmetic surgery. Though Mexican law enforcement officials have also begun to consider whether the kidnappings were tied to a drug trafficking turf war.
Three of them
Across the world are some of the eeriest abandoned cities and ghost towns where civilisation has completely vanished.
They were once thriving and home to many inhabitants but are now left deserted and forgotten.
While they still have a population of zero, many are seeing a revival as tourists travel from afar to snap photos of hollow buildings that are in a state of decay or investigate tales of the supernatural.
From the desolate medieval village of Craco, in
Several tourists traveling to luxurious tropical vacation destinations saw their vacations take violent and sometimes deadly turns that became horror stories in 2022, including a North Carolina woman whose murder in Mexico remains unsolved.
Shanquella Robinson
Shanquella Robinson, a 25-year-old from North Carolina, traveled to the swanky Fundadores Beach Club in San José del Cabo, Mexico, Oct. 28 with a group of six friends.
The next day, Robinson was found dead, and her travel companions claimed she had suffered
In my daily life, Walnut is omnipresent. He shadows me all over the house. When I sit, he gallops up into my lap. When I go to bed, he stretches out his long warm body against my body or he tucks himself under my chin like a soft violin. Walnut is so relentlessly present that sometimes, paradoxically, he disappears. If I am stressed or tired, I can go a whole day without noticing him. I will pet him idly; I
The notorious Mykonos beach bar repeatedly accused of forcing tourists to pay sky-high prices warns locals away because ‘it’s expensive’, yet charges them just a fraction of what unsuspecting holidaymakers are charged.
A string of customers – all foreign tourists – told DailyMail.com that they were ‘scammed’ in the past week after being forced to shell out hundreds of euros at DK Oyster, a beachfront restaurant on the ritzy Greek Island.
All the victims told how they were not informed
This is the heart-stopping moment a Wizz Air passenger jet skimmed just yards over tourists’ heads as it came in land on a Greek island, in what some said was the lowest ever landing at the airport.
Dramatic footage of the landing was uploaded last week by a jet enthusiast who was positioned to watch planes touch down on Greece’s Skiathos island.
The island’s landing strip, built just yards from the sea, has become a draw for thrill-seeking tourists looking
Jacinda Ardern has begged UK tourists to visit New Zealand as it prepares to fully reopen its borders after more than two years of isolation due to her ‘Zero Covid’ policy.
The New Zealand Prime Minister did her best to sell her country as a winter sun holiday destination during an appearance on ITV’s Lorraine this morning.
Speaking on the show, Ms Ardern said people from the UK can already visit the country despite it being locked away from the
An American mother and her daughter claimed that they were scammed by a Mykonos restaurant that charged them $641.15 for two crab legs and two cocktails and proceeded to threaten to call the police when they complained.
Brenda Moulton and her 19-year-old daughter Kaylea were looking to spend an idyllic day on the paradisiac Platys Gialos beach, but in turn, experienced the scare of their lives when intimidating staff at DK Oyster bar told them they wouldn’t return to the
