The Tranquilo Traveler
The Tranquilo Traveler is a celebration of voluntourism, slow travel, and other interesting ways to see the world. Travel writer and award- winning Moon Handbooks author Joshua Berman created The Tranquilo Travel as a resource for world trippers and international volunteers, a window to the author’s travels in Nicaragua, Belize, and beyond, and an update of his books and articles.
The World Roof Hotel
By Joshua | 
2 Comments » Here it is, our home for a week-and-a-half in the village of Karimabad. The town’s water comes from the Ultar Glacier, pictured in the gap above, and the Baltit Fort... [Read this entry]
Rash Lake Trek: The Highest We’ve Ever Been
By Joshua | 3 Comments » Nay, dear readers, I speak not of Pakistani hashish, the famed “Peshawar Original,” smuggled to the Northern Areas from Peshawar’s main bazaar by many a young Japanese pot tourist. Why... [Read this entry]
The Mir of Hunza, Part 2
By Joshua | 34 Comments » Our reception at the Royal Palace was short and official, about the minimum of what our imaginations had conjured up; we were led directly through a side door to the... [Read this entry]
Himalaya, Mountain Mama: The Hunza Valley
By Joshua | 22 Comments » While Pakistan struggles with a severed submarine Internet cable (the communications ministry, apparently, had misled the country for years about the existence of a backup line), the TT struggles with... [Read this entry]
Trail Magic
By Joshua | 3 Comments » When thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail receive random acts of hospitality and kindness from total strangers, they call it “Trail Magic;” and when round-the-worlders discover these things in a city... [Read this entry]
Why We Came to Pakistan: Gordon College, Rawalpindi, and our search for Dr. Stewart
By Joshua | 79 Comments » We did not come to Pakistan simply to wander the country for travel’s sake. That we are able to do so — to browse the silk stalls in Rawalpindi’s Rajah... [Read this entry]
Next up, on the Rawalpindi runway…
By Joshua | 3 Comments » Joshua is cool and casual in his new, custom-tailored shulwar kameez, 100 percent cotton with Chinaman collar and straight cut flaps; design and fitting by Mr. Shan-e-Ellahi Sheikh, on Mall... [Read this entry]
The Mir of Hunza
By Joshua | 16 Comments » Though only 600 kilometers on the Karakorum Highway, the bus trip from Rawalpindi to Gilgit, is an arduous 18-hour ascent, sometimes longer when there is flooding and/or rock slides. No... [Read this entry]
Pakistan: The Adventure Starts Now
By Joshua | 6 Comments » Paris was brilliant, but it was easy — millions of gawking day-trippers stream through its polished and numerous attractions each year. Dubai was a mildly exotic layover, its air-conditioned malls... [Read this entry]
Pass the Sheesha to the Left Hand Side
By Joshua | 1 Comment » A creamy lump of hummus and olive oil, a silver pot of Moroccan mint tea, and a fat hookah packed with sweet apple tobacco–this was how we ended our first... [Read this entry]
Joshua Berman is an award-winning author for Avalon Travel Publishing's Moon series. He is a writer, editor, and trip leader, based in Central America and Boulder, Colorado. Learn more about Joshua or contact him here.- 0. Volunteering Abroad
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I filmed some of these scenes for Astrum....See mo ... [read more] - Qamrunnisa Begum on Why We Came to Pakistan: Gordon College, Rawalpindi, and our search for Dr. Stewart
Please contact me on e-mail 24375991@bol.net.in - Fernando Rivera on Back in Nicaragua: La Trinidad, Estelí
I grew up in la trinidad, i left when i was 9 year ... [read more] - Joshua Berman on Nicaragua Trip Coach on BudgetTravel.com Tuesday at Noon EST
Yes, they will post it in their archives for poste ... [read more] - Nicaragua Surf on Moon Belize up for Award - Vote Now!
This sounds like a great book. I'm always on the l ... [read more] - Nicaragua Surf on Nicaragua Trip Coach on BudgetTravel.com Tuesday at Noon EST
That sounds like a really cool opportunity. Is it ... [read more] - shahin on Why We Came to Pakistan: Gordon College, Rawalpindi, and our search for Dr. Stewart
hello hasan Wasty your name rings a bell do we kno ... [read more] - Shadow on My Review of Bruce Barcott’s new Belize book in July, 2008, issue of Mountain Gazette
Great Review Joshua. The subject of the book is o ... [read more] - vscsrao on Himalaya, Mountain Mama: The Hunza Valley
why the peak of of the himalaya covered with snow. - Joshua Berman on My Review of Bruce Barcott’s new Belize book in July, 2008, issue of Mountain Gazette
Fred -- I'd love to know the details of the errors ... [read more]
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