It was the night before the Thai new year festival of Songkran, and we were spending it in the luggage hold of a bus. We…
This story was received via anonymous submission and it details a lifestyle and form of tourism we at Global Hobo do not endorse. In the…
I abandoned my job teaching at a school in Thailand to volunteer at an organic farm. I’d heard about a beautiful property outside this place…
I was introduced to meditation by Japanese pickup artists. Their interest in the subject made me wonder if it could be useful to those of…
A couple of years ago now, Julia Gillard’s “$1000 textbook allowance” and continuous Centrelink payments bought me my flight to Bangkok and funded my Asian…
To know a place is to know the people. This is why I check Grindr in every location. Grindr is far nicer to use in…
We stock our backpacks with freshly made dumplings from a local market, bottles of beer, a portable speaker and a couple of cheeky tins of…
Thailand is a bit of an anomaly in South East Asia in that it’s the only nation in the area to have never been colonised….
I can’t even show you the CD. Why? Because I threw that five-track motherfucker straight into the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok’s crystal clear aquatic thoroughfare….
With my forehead pressed against the window in an attempt to remedy my back-seat nausea, I’d not noticed that we’d reached our destination: Khao Sok,…
Sex Tourists Not Welcome Here, read a large sign in the foyer of my Bangkok hotel. It was slightly off-putting, as in the back of…
Fuck the full moon parties; Songkran is by far Thailand’s most dangerous festivity. This Thai New Year celebration takes place in April all over the…
