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…
“You haven’t truly experienced Bangkok until you’ve seen an old white man finger a young Thai girl in the street,” said my cousin over a round…
