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Hundreds Die!!!
....laughing that is!!!
....now YOU can be in the news!!!
Hi, I'm Dave....I am a complete travel junkie....I have spent most of my life living out of a backpack or suitcase. I have travelled to over 130 countries and have travelled by every means possible from camel to cruise ship!During those times I have had many funny and bizzare things happen to me and I have met many other travellers with some great stories to share as well.
Nows the chance for YOU to be in the news. As part of my travel website I am publishing two online newspapers, "The Travel Times", for land-based travel stories and "The Scuba Scribe", for scuba stories...I am also a hardcore diver with over 2,000 logged dives in over 50 countries.
Its the news.....with a catch!!! I DO NOT want any regular "I went here and saw some great ruins" stories....I want stories that are funny....bizzare....entertaining. This is a family website, so keep them clean....well semi-clean anyway!!!
Just e-mail your story to me at explore@blackbeardstravel.com(Blackbeards Adventure Travel), for your land travel stories and dive@blue-abyss-divers.com(Blue Abyss Divers), for your scuba diving tales, and if its chosen, I will put it into the appropriate paper. Please try to make the stories between a paragraph and a page. Many more happy and exciting travel adventures!!!
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Below are some of the travel tales that I found very funny!!! Hopefully you will too!! ....make sure to tell your friends with a case of wanderlust or just those armchair travellers!!!
Enjoy the travel tales....
Pay Attention!!
A few years ago I was backpacking across Africa. I had caught a night flight from Cairo to Addis Ababa. My ticket just had Cairo and Addis Ababa on it. We landed, everyone seemed to be getting off(I was the only white foriegner on the plane), so I got off, collected my bags off the runway and still half asleep proceded to Ethiopian immigration, or so I thought! When I got to the counter the guy behind the counter asked me where my Sudanesse visa was. Of course I looked at him like he was from Mars, until it dawned on me that I had gotten off in the wrong country! Well it was off to a back room for me where they questioned me and held me for a few hours before finally realizing that I was no threat (other than to myself), and issued me a three day travel visa and in a couple days I was on my way, yes the adventure had begun!
Danny, Seattle, USA
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Chezzy "B" Movie
After weeks of trekking through the Amazon jungle, going from tribe to tribe, I decided to hire a boat and sail down the Amazon to Iquitos, Peru. The journey was incredible, but theres one morning I won't ever forget. My boat captain in his broken english told me we had reached the Colombia/Peru border and I needed to go get my passport stamped. That seemed regular enough, until he pointed me to this shack that stood at the top of this steep muddy hill. I unbelievingly looked up the muddy slope and thought "bloody hell, who would know anyway if we just carried on", but I went up the hill. As I walked through the door of the shack that was slightly ajar, I felt as if I had walked unto the set of a chezzy "B" grade adventure movie. A single naked lightbulb swung from the cieling, the room was completly bare except for a cheap rotating floor fan and a broken down desk and chair at the far end of the shack. On the desk sat a empty bottle of whiskey and a handgun. Slumped, pasted-out on the desk was what I assumed was the immigration official. You could smell the stench of stale sweat and booze. After a few times calling out, a bit loader each time, he finally awoke grabbed my passport without saying a word, stamped it and I was quickly out of there and sliding down the muddy slope, amazed at the scene I had just witnessed!
Rob, London, UK
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It Takes a Thief
A few years ago I was backpacking across India. I was going to spend a few days in Agra, so I checked my guidebook and found a guest house that looked okay. It was nothing special, but it looked fairly clean and safe, or so I thought. I needed to do laundry, so I washed a few things in the sink and hung them on my balcony to dry and then went out exploring. Upon returning to my room I realized that about half my socks and underwear had gone missing. At first I assummed that they had blown off, but it was a calm day and I checked over the side and there was no sign off them. The rest of the clothes were still a bit damp, so reluctantly I left them there while I went to get something to eat. This time all of them were gone, I couldn't believe it, who would be low enough to steal a persons underwear. I was sure one of my fellow travellers had relieved me of my belongings so in the guise of befriending them I went around talking to my nieghbors hopeing to find my stolen clothes, to no avail. I was carefully trying to bring up the question of the missing clothes when suddenly one of the guys caught on to what I was getting at and burst out laughing. Apparently I wasn't the first person this happened to. The thief turned out to be a monkey that would go around and steal everyones clothes. They were never recovered!
Kieth, Toronto, Canada
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