Staff dropped him at a backpackers in Byron Bay, but he never went to the backpackers.
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Someone was handing out the beers (thank you generous backpackers!).
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Here's hoping 2017 will bring better luck for the backpackers.
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The valley is a favorite spot for foreign tourists, especially backpackers.
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But for many backpackers and migrants, exploitation by employers is rife.
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Four things that made me suddenly hate all backpackers and backpacking.
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Here backpackers cross the trail's highest mountain, Clingmans Dome, at 6,643 feet.
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Then another three bodies, all German backpackers, were unearthed in November 13.
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Some backpackers are taking traveling on a shoestring to a new level.
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We don't get many tourists because we don't market to the backpackers.
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They're day hikers and weekend backpackers, horseback riders, bird watchers or anglers.
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The remaining backpackers who stayed on the beach were airlifted, according to Rupp.
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He took over a start-up that sold water-purifying pumps for backpackers.
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The area's remoteness and natural beauty are what began luring surfers and backpackers.
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It became popular with backpackers in the 2000s, later with divers, now with swimmers.
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Of course, hostels are the standard go-to for backpackers on a budget. Hostels.
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European backpackers who have been missing their favorite Netflix shows can finally rest easy.
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Hikers and Backpackers should be aware that trail conditions can change throughout the day.
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Quirky Campers claims the Toyota HiAce model van is the usual backpackers' campervan choice.
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Camping out in reclaimed parking lots isn't just for German hipsters and thirsty backpackers.
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Partying backpackers ply the river, but their numbers are a fraction of days past.
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It's recommended that backpackers handle it with care as it isn't the most durable.
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The tourist trade catered largely to backpackers looking for cheap hostels and coca tea.
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Australia's wildlife have moved on from biting backpackers — they've started to turn on each other.
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"Backpackers still come but not as many and they're not as drunk," Mr. Perkins added.
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In 2000, a man burned a backpackers' hostel to the ground in Childers, Queensland, killing 15.
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The attack took place in front of dozens of backpackers at a hostel in northern Queensland.
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They were suspects in the killings of two backpackers, Chynna Deese, 24, and Lucas Fowler, 23.
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It was designed in Germany by Christoph Kuppert to help backpackers save space during long trips.
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Some young backpackers have been sadly disappointed to find it jam-packed with fellow human beings.
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Frugal backpackers love Bali; they immerse in its various settings, from jungles to beaches, for cheap.
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The beach town of Sihanoukville was a sleepy fishing village before it became a haven for backpackers.
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In 2000, Robert Paul Long burned a backpackers' hostel to the ground in Childers, Queensland, killing 15.
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There are several backpackers in this friend group, but I'm secretly hoping I end up with it.
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The legend among backpackers is that two Swiss discovered Boracay in the age of the Hippie Trail.
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Bali is a destination for both luxury travelers and backpackers who come with little or no money.
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Police also suspect their involvement in the deaths of backpackers Chynna Deese, 24, and Lucas Fowler, 23.
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Australia is a popular destination for tourists of all ages and budgets, many of them young backpackers.
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It became, primarily, a grotty live music venue and a place where backpackers and college students drank.
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He recalled hordes of Swedish backpackers flooding the arena to see Stefan Edberg play in the 1990s.
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Now you can live vicariously through two backpackers, who spent six months travelling through 32 locations in Asia.
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We parked, I showed them over a fence and through some trees, and the two backpackers went inside.
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In total backpackers spend A$4.3 billion a year, worth about 12 percent of all international tourist spending.
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Pros: Compresses to a travel-friendly size, normal-shaped pillow, many sizes and colors, affordableCons: Heavy for backpackers
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Two British backpackers were murdered in September 2014 on Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand.
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Among the backpackers I spoke with, both Zion and parks along the John Muir Trail came up frequently.
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Its prime location in the center of Berlin made it popular with backpackers and students on field trips.
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Backpackers, Sami reindeer herders, botanists and the odd Linnaeus pilgrim are the only humans you will find here.
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Then I call an Uber to take us to my hostel in the backpackers district, which I pay for.
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De Paauw told Paterson about his theory that backpackers are more likely to get eaten by crocodiles than Australians.
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One recent afternoon, three ethnic Han backpackers from central China sat in the last village by the Myanmar border.
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In the coastal backwater once popular with Western backpackers, 20 new casinos have opened in the past two years.
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Now, nearly a thousand of these structures are open to trampers (as overnight backpackers are known) for minimal fees.
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That, in part, turned the region into a destination for backpackers and adventurers seeking a certain kind of experience.
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The 2014 murders of the British backpackers prompted some local and foreign media to brand Koh Tao "murder island".
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They're not backpackers, and they're not in Las Vegas, drinking Champagne and sitting around in their heart-shaped bathtub.
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Until a few years ago, few tourists made it to Pangong lake; those who did were mostly intrepid Western backpackers.
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Once a quiet seaside haven for backpackers, Sihanoukville has morphed into a giant construction site in the past three years.
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Additionally, one of the backpackers has a visible metal detector in the photo, pointed out a Death Valley Facebook commenter.
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Even though the shot backpackers were found 310 miles from the other incidents, police have said a connection is possible.
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A few weeks ago, two men seeking a Continental illusion hopped around the bar like backpackers on a lightning tour.
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Thirty holdout tenants remained, and while some despised the young backpackers, Sir Shadow welcomed a new audience for his art.
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Most international backpackers I met had started in the far south at the Route's famed, glacier-filled Torres del Paine.
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The National Park Service limits the number of day-hikers and backpackers allowed on the trail to 300 per day.
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The image of Phuket as a cut-price destination for backpackers and budget-conscious retirees is long out of date.
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Popular with all sorts of tourists, from backpackers to pensioners from across the world, the country offers something for everyone.
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For backpackers on working holiday visas, Brisbane seems like a great place to settle down for a bit and find work.
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And anyone who has been can tell you that drugs—from mushrooms, to weed, to opium—are widely available to backpackers.
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Even on Bangkok's famous Khao San Road -- known for its bright lights, nightclubs and swarms of backpackers -- the mood was somber.
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Matt Cooper (chef): I was in Africa back in 2009… working as a chef at a backpackers' [camp] in Lake Malawi.
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The subsequent court case unveiled Milat's pattern of picking off hitchhikers and foreign backpackers in Sydney and murdering them at Belanglo.
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"As long as the foreigners keep coming, we will be alright," said Michelle Brooks, owner of Happy Hippo Backpackers in Durban.
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But backpackers like Matt Bradley from Britain say that faced with the higher tax they will simply decide not to work.
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It followed the discovery of two bullet-ridden bodies four days earlier, of backpackers Lucas Fowler, 23, and Chynna Deese, 24.
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Concerns about the welfare of the two young backpackers were raised when an unattended rental car was located with their belongings.
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Officials in Morocco charged 15 people with terror offences on Sunday over the deaths of backpackers Louisa Jespersen and Maren Ueland.
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The pace of Santa Catalina was, refreshingly, dictated not by the backpackers passing through, but by those who are from here.
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Places like Thailand and Vietnam are getting more and more expensive, because there are millions of backpackers that go there every year.
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Naturally, the backpackers tried to avoid the bears, but when one bear entered the water, things took a turn for the worse.
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I sat in my hostel common room on the morning of Day Three, watching my poor fellow backpackers sip on bad coffee.
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It is an especially ideal destination for adventurous backpackers because there are many family-run bed-and-breakfasts and agritourism-style homestays.
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She secured the box by latching it to an aluminum pack frame, which is typically used by backpackers to carry their gear.
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BEST FOR BACKPACKERS BEST FOR PLASTIC HATERS Best for serious travellers BEST FOR STYLE BEST FOR FILTERING CHLORINE Best for tight budgets
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There is no cap to the number of visitors traveling by plane, and new cheap routes catering to backpackers have been added.
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Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 52%Backpackers get stuck in the Australian outback with a sheriff who turns out to be a psychopath.
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The normally sleepy village was crammed with people eager for the eclipse: locals from neighboring villages, out-of-towners, tour groups, backpackers.
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Verizon's "backpackers" are dispatched to high traffic areas where use of wireless technology is in high demand including shopping malls, airports and stadiums.
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Backpackers have been on the trail for about a month when they reach the trail town of Damascus, Virginia, at the southern border.
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Backpackers and weekend tourists might not mind camping out in a family's back bedroom, but those preparing for client meetings and conferences will.
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Insensitive backpackers can now combine it with distinctly non-Amazonian Indian elements, such as sweat lodges (North American Indian) or yoga (Indian Indian).
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The pair hope the hub will be a place for open collaboration, whether with universities, backpackers passing through Cairns or multinational technology companies.
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At the base of the mountain, I shuffled off the train and onto a cable car along with a handful of European backpackers.
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Many seemed unfamiliar with the conservation practices that had guided most of the backpackers and local residents who had visited over the years.
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Compact and convenient, this is a stove that first-time backpackers can quickly learn to operate and continue to use for many years.
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Young trail workers, wilderness rangers, river guides, hunters, anglers, backpackers, outfitters, field scientists and more have a duty to defend and expand them.
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The opening up of forests to the public does not help, either, with more backpackers increasing the likelihood that fires will be started accidentally.
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McCoy believed the right device could help not only older people, but also forest firefighters, hikers, hunters, recreational backpackers and veterans returning from abroad.
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After a foray into lower-priced offerings, Suunto is back to focusing on its group of hardcore users, like ultrarunners, backpackers, and mountain guides.
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In the daytime, the men tell me, they drive sunburned backpackers around in tuk-tuks, which brings in somewhere around $7-9 a day.
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Saving a pound or two may not seem like much, but veteran backpackers know how crucial it is to shave pack weight whenever possible.
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Our journey took us through rocky desert trails, sand dunes that ran straight into the sea, and beach towns full of hostels and backpackers.
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Set in the outback, this grisly pageant of suffering tells an ultraviolent story of backpackers who become the victim of a torture-loving loner.
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Ella's downtown is geared to tourists and backpackers — think Western-style coffee shops, bars and souvenir stores — so I didn't spend much time there.
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Syed Israr Hussain, owner of the nearby Osho Thang hotel, said he stayed there for two or three days with a group of backpackers.
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Last year, photographer Rebecca Rütten spent three months in a secluded hostel on a tropical island, where a group of backpackers found their utopia.
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Its genius, and that of its marketing campaign, is to appeal to everyone, from scruffy backpackers to silver-haired oenophiles and even the superyacht set.
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Migrant workers Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were sentenced to death last month for the 2014 murder of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller.
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She returned to her hotel in an area popular with backpackers and told the reception desk to call the police, according to the hotel manager.
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Moroccan prosecutors charged 15 people with terrorism offences on Sunday over the beheading of two Scandinavian backpackers who were found dead on a hiking trip.
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From my own experience, using it from late spring through early fall is a fantastic option for backpackers looking to shave ounces off their pack.
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Popular with backpackers for decades, idyllic Flores abounds with lush foliage and striking volcanoes, highlighted by the famous three-colored crater lakes by Mount Kelimutu.
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It's a popular belief that many migrant workers and backpackers are unaware of the minimum working conditions in Australia, but the report challenges this notion.
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The sexual habits of backpackers and travelers may have become less safe, according to two studies published this week in the medical journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.
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The content will be aimed at all different types of travelers, based on Gogobot's 19 "tribes," which include adventure travelers, backpackers, budget travelers and outdoor enthusiasts.
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Norwegian is leading the charge to stimulate price-sensitive demand in the market—appealing to students, backpackers and others who struggle to afford long-haul trips.
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Sure, it's a bit of an after-college travel cliché, but Prague is still a great spot for backpackers — full of charm, great beer and energy.
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Police also suspect their involvement in the deaths of backpackers Chynna Deese, 24, and Lucas Fowler, 23, in Liard Hot Springs, British Columbia on July 15.
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Above all, buses could be the perfect choice for the spontaneous traveler: Backpackers, students or those travelers who want to leave their options open can benefit.
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Reclaimed from the drug smugglers and blissed-out backpackers, this tip of Thailand is now a haven for peaceful contemplation in gilded palaces and secret grottoes.
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We actually saw a number of backpackers who had decided to splurge at Chalalán; also, you can often get cheaper rates when you sign up in person.
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On Saturday, four of the backpackers decided to try to make their way back while the others set up tarps and tried to keep warm and dry.
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Abbott estimates that most backpackers typically don't spend more than a year and a half traveling nonstop because they get burnt out from the lack of community.
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Yes, I know the VSSL adventure kit looks compact and lightweight compared to the bulky load of supplies backpackers carry; but don't underestimate this sleek lil' tube.
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The Kelty Cosmic 20 isn't only affordable, it also offers solid all-around performance, making it the best option for backpackers and campers on a tight budget.
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The explosive device, which shattered windows in nearby apartment buildings, appeared to have been left in a sewer outside a new youth hostel popular with foreign backpackers.
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He and Ms. Le opened her parents' home to backpackers who slept in hammocks in the garden, before expanding to a guesthouse with bungalows and a pool.
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President of Cambodia Law Services, Sam Onn Kong, told CNN he didn't believe what the backpackers were alleged to have done was actually illegal under Cambodian law.
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Read more:Morocco charges 15 with terrorism over ISIS-style beheading of 2 Scandinavian backpackersMorocco says police accidentally foiled a terror plot while hunting the killers of two Scandinavian backpackers The men suspected of killing 2 Scandinavian tourists in Morocco had pledged allegiance to ISIS, prosecutors say The killing of 2 Scandinavian backpackers in Morocco has been declared an 'act of terror' as officials investigate an ISIS-style beheading video
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Again, the buses were mostly filled with Venezuelans – easily recognizable by their bulky bags and jugs of water – although they were now rubbing shoulders with grungy Western backpackers.
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Sherpa takes their content and turns it into guides that appeal to a variety of types of travelers — ranging from backpackers to adventurers to luxury travelers and more.
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Foreigners with expired visas have long been a problem for Thailand, a country whose renowned hospitality, cuisine and cheap standard of living makes it a haven for backpackers.
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A teaser released on Monday shows villain Mick Taylor, played by John Jarratt, who murdered backpackers in the original low-budget film, the target of a revenge plot.
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Australia has encouraged backpackers to work on farms with special visas allowing them to stay for a second year if they do three months work in rural Australia.
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Franz runs his workshops out of a guesthouse, and on the day I turned up along with two German backpackers and three Israelis, he'd forgotten all about it.
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Earlier this month, hundreds of hawkers marched to city hall following a daytime ban on vending on the sidewalks of Khao San road, a favorite haunt of backpackers.
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The teens, who are childhood friends, are suspects in the deaths of two backpackers and a separate killing of a 64-year-old Canadian man 310 miles away.
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Although there are accessories that will let you use a frying pan, this is really a stove for heating your water fast, which is all most backpackers need.
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In the past decade, the artists on the islands have worked to distinguish their artworks from the more popular indigenous art that sells to backpackers and other travelers.
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The result is a collage that offers a sweeping range of sounds inclusive of every iteration of drill and trap to the "backpackers" and alternative forms of each.
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Backpackers and other "working holiday makers" will be able to travel to areas affected by fires and help to rebuild homes, repair roads, and clear land, Tudge said.
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Thankfully, those days are long gone and it's now possible to find a number of options built from the ground up with female campers and backpackers in mind.
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Emergency rescuers responded not once, not twice, but three times to satellite tracker calls of one group of Grand Canyon backpackers in 20143 despite there being no real emergency.
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Emergency rescuers responded not once, not twice, but three times to satellite tracker calls of one group of Grand Canyon backpackers in 2009 despite there being no real emergency.
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Cambodia has been become a favorite with backpackers and budget travelers over the past decade, but has more recently begun to establish itself as more of a luxury destination.
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We had all coincidentally booked our current hostel because it was close to the airport, but we want to stay in the main backpackers district for the following nights.
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This is why Soylent is big with Silicon Valley bros who are trying to hack their day to save time, or backpackers who literally do not have food available.
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The government has encouraged backpackers to work on farms with special visas allowing them to stay for a second year if they do three months work in rural Australia.
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The case has sparked a debate on social media about whether New Zealand was still safe for female backpackers and whether the killing would discourage women from traveling alone.
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With more headroom and elbow space than most backpacking tents, MSR's Hubba Hubba NX 2 sleeps two backpackers with ease (as if the name didn't already allude to that).
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The case has also sparked a debate on Twitter about whether New Zealand was still safe for female backpackers and whether the killing would discourage women from traveling alone.
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Although Leonardo DiCaprio's Richard may be an American—he's young, white and rich—and follows the dank trail of Thai landrace that other privileged backpackers had already left behind.
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He said another bone was found on Sunday and that it had also been sent for forensic analysis to determine whether it was from either of the missing backpackers.
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"We're the first aid these people have seen," said Brad Stewart, operations manager for the aid group, a small medical assistance organization that most often serves backpackers in Nepal.
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The workers have been convicted of the murder of two backpackers, Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, whose bodies were found on an island beach in September 2014.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two men from Myanmar convicted of killing two British backpackers on a Thai holiday island in 2014 submitted their final appeal on Monday against the death sentence.
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Episode 1 begins with some cash-strapped backpackers in a medical study in Mumbai and then jumps ahead six years to London, where the participants have wound up dead.
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Now, distance backpackers pour French-press coffee into $233 double-walled titanium cups and make beer on the trail from concentrate fizzed up with citric acid and potassium bicarbonate.
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The kind of free-spirited liberalism that made Amsterdam a magnet for the backpackers of the Western world was always concentrated in the cities along the North Sea coast.
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At the Chillawhile Backpackers Art Gallery in Oamaru, a small harbor town in New Zealand, works by visitors created during their stays at the Chillawhile hostel cover the walls.
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Leaders at Matagarup label the place a "refugee camp," but a diverse range of people of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous background live there, including homeless families and backpackers.
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For that reason, dedicated distance runners, backpackers, and long-day hikers will likely find more utilitarian fitness trackers (with multi-day GPS battery life) better suited to their extreme demands.
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But it has been become a favorite with backpackers and budget travelers over the past decade or so and has more recently begun to establish itself as a luxury destination.
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The workers have been convicted of the murder of two backpackers, Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, whose battered bodies were found on an island beach in September 2014.
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Police have charged them with the murder of 64-year-old Leonard Dyck, and also suspect their involvement in the deaths of backpackers Chynna Deese, 24, and Lucas Fowler, 23.
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A car needs to be sat in a bit, the way backpackers need to break in boots so they fit the contours of their feet and style of their gait.
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I can't always do youth hostels — I'm generally too old and grumpy to be hanging around in bunk beds comparing dry shampoos with a bunch of early-20s Australian backpackers.
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Much of the cocaine produced in the VRAE heads straight to neighboring Bolivia, via light aircraft or "backpackers" schlepping bricks of the drug over the densely-vegetated, precipitous frontier zone.
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In a direct effect, hunters, kayakers, backpackers and visitors will simply stop going, and the Interior Department says these people spent $50 billion on recreation in federal lands last year.
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Machine-gun-wielding soldiers wave the traffic through after inspecting it, as European backpackers in jean shorts and flip-flops lounge at the town's four food stalls across the road.
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A few backpackers from the hostel next door wandered in and ordered craft beer from Boquete's Central Cervecería, and roast chicken, which is brined for 24 hours in ocean water.
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It's lightweight, comfortable, and doesn't take up much room in a backpack, all of which are features that should make it a popular option for backpackers and car campers alike.
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There were some full-home rental websites like VRBO at the time, but single-room rentals were an option mostly for backpackers on a budget or cash-strapped college students.
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Large quantities of Peruvian cocaine continue to pass into Bolivia via light aircraft and backpackers who haul bricks of the drug through the dense, mountainous cloud forest of the frontier region.
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Issachar's case has sparked public interest in Israel, especially since Moscow airport is a popular transit hub for Israeli backpackers, like the jailed 26-year-old, visiting India and southeast Asia.
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Because some guests still stumble in by chance while others make reservations months ahead, the clientele is notably eclectic: bow hunters and backpackers, Paul Simon and Scarlett Johansson and Jamaica Kincaid .
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In Montezuma County, Colorado, where I live, work, and farm, we have all kinds of people using public land: ranchers, miners, hunters, backpackers and off-road enthusiasts are just a few.
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That area has long drawn homeless people and day laborers, but more recently it has attracted backpackers and other low-budget travelers who stay at minpaku on a short-term basis.
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The country's ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, was helping mediate the sensitive negotiations around the release of several American backpackers who had been detained in Iran under suspicion of being spies.
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A knife attack that killed two British backpackers at a hostel in Queensland, Australia, was found to be a common crime, not one related to terrorism, the Queensland police have said.
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Guests ranging from backpackers to students to business travelers can sample original contemporary work at many of these hostels, including comic book and tattoo art, and reproductions of the great masters.
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Concerns over safety on Koh Tao were heightened after it made headlines in 2014 when the bodies of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found on a beach.
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A British woman was stabbed to death on Wednesday at a backpackers' hostel in Australia and two people were injured, one seriously, in what police say may have been an "extremist" attack.
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I went along on a half-day Soweto tour booked through the Curiocity Backpackers hostel (350 rand) with about a dozen other people and found the experience more than worth the effort.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - A week ago, Sri Lankan tourist guide Ricky Costa was preparing for a typically easy Sunday ferrying backpackers between Colombo's tea shops and beach bars in his canary-yellow rickshaw.
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When Cody was 6, Dial brought him on his first expedition: a 60-mile bushwhacking trek across Umnak Island in the Alaskan Aleutians, a journey that would challenge even expert adult backpackers.
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Our nation's shared landscape — of which we are all co-owners — brings together gun-owning hunters and vegan backpackers, Republican fly-fishermen and Democratic mountain bikers, rural ranchers and urban bird watchers.
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She added that motorbiking is a favorite activity, mostly for backpackers and younger travelers, due to the quality of the roads and dirt tracks, though Topas doesn't encourage it for safety reasons.
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The "leave no trace" wilderness ethic is great for middle-class backpackers in a national park, but that ethic just doesn't work for people who depend on the land for their sustenance.
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I've become all too aware that backpackers are douchebags and that I'm a douchebag because I'm one of them, and I'm wasting my whole vacation stewing about the fact we're all douchebags.
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This project is all about how backpackers do it, and to me, they drive home the singular mentality these travelers live by — that this is what it takes to experience the world. —A.
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On Friday, the first official night, the majority of the crowd was mostly made up of fellow backpackers, as well a smattering of Nicaraguan students from the capital of Managua and nearby Rivas.
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While the trend is becoming popular among backpackers, the concept dates back to when Japanese workers, particularly men, stayed in their offices or went out for dinner and drinking until late at night.
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Last month, the bodies of two Argentine backpackers, Marina Menegazzo, 21, and María José Coni, 22, were found stuffed in plastic bags and dumped on the beach in Montañita, on Ecuador's Pacific coast.
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Thailand's prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, questioned the attire and behavior of foreign female tourists shortly after the killing of two British backpackers, David Miller and Hannah Witheridge, on Koh Tao in 2014.
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But the mayor and other residents say those glittering guests have recently been nudged aside by party boats, all-night clubs and hostels full of wobbly backpackers, changing the character of the island.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian authorities and volunteer divers were searching on Monday for a 21-year-old British woman who has been missing for five days from its southwestern coast popular with backpackers.
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LONDON — A rental car containing backpackers' mobile phones, passports, bank cards, and other valuables fell off a ferry and drifted out to sea off the shore of Fraser Island, Australia, on New Year's Eve.
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The Stone Among Appalachian Trail "thru-hikers" — that special class of backpackers dedicated (or obsessed) enough to walk the trail's full 2,200 miles — the question of whether to carry a tent is hotly debated.
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As he left Yangon Airport in a Toyota Mark II Grande sedan, Francis rolled down a window to wave at hundreds more children cheering "Viva, Papa" next to curious backpackers and wary security officials.
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During his initial travels, he says, Smith mostly encountered backpackers running down their savings, but subsequent generations of nomads emerged: first, marketing consultants often banking on sketchy S.E.O. schemes; next, freelance writers and programmers.
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"Ballin' since '83 / Half of 'em say he gay / Maybe that's the reason I like Lady What-babies-say," he continued on "Backpackers," framing his love of Lady Gaga as an act of defiance.
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Hiking the Inca Trail, the classic journey from Piskacucho to the Sun Gate at Machu Picchu, is popular with students and backpackers (there are many tour operators, including SAS Travel, PeruTreks and Llama Path).
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PHNOM PENH, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Cambodian authorities and volunteer divers were searching on Monday for a 21-year-old British woman who has been missing for five days from its southwestern coast popular with backpackers.
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SYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison on Tuesday lowered a proposed tax on backpackers who work in the country after rural opposition that the policy would undermine the goal of growing agricultural exports.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 29-year-old Frenchman shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) as he stabbed a British woman to death and wounded two people at a backpackers' hotel in Australia, police said on Wednesday.
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In this way, although the film is set in Thailand, it also very much captures the sound of Ibiza—another island paradise that UK backpackers have been making pilgrimages to for the last two decades.
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The German capital—long considered the ultimate destination for artists, musicians, students, squatters, backpackers, ex-pats, and other pioneering broke people of all strides—has been declared "over" by a formidable list of media outlets.
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When she went back, in 1967, Sutherland brought along a ride: an inflatable kayak that she saw in a catalog from the Smilie Company of San Francisco, which made products for backpackers and mule packers.
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The police major general who headed the rape investigation, Surachate Hakparn, said in an interview with The Times that the police have cracked down on crime syndicates on Koh Tao since the backpackers' double killing.
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There are fascinating aviation-themed attractions waiting to be explored around the world — places where corporate globe-trotters, backpackers in Birkenstocks and the all-around curious can rediscover the original, wide-eyed wonder of flight.
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This provides extra comfort and protection from the elements, and the result is a sleeping bag that doesn't have any weaknesses in its armor when it comes to protecting campers and backpackers from the cold.
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One in three international students and backpackers are being underpaid, earning less than A$12 an hour, according to a comprehensive report called Wage Theft in Australia, which surveyed 4,322 people on temporary migrant visas.
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Government data shows the number of backpackers, tourists who have working visas, willing to take on the three-month rural work in 2016 fell 10 percent from the previous season to hit a six-year low.
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With its palm-fringed beaches, Buddhist culture and racy nightlife, Thailand has been the poster child for Asian tourism for decades, attracting a range of visitors from backpackers and adventure-seekers, to families and culture vultures.
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The modular, industrial train car-esque structures are a versatile idea for the near future of housing, from providing permanent homes for the houseless to giving backpackers on a budget somewhere to crash for a night.
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Goa's pristine beaches and laid back lifestyle have lured foreign backpackers and tourists for decades, but Keeling's mysterious death threw an uncomfortable spotlight on the easy availability of drugs and risks to women traveling in India.
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Without further adieu, here are the worst of the worst mushroom stories I could find: We were in Vang Vieng a few years back, which is a town in Laos where backpackers go to do drugs.
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It adds to growing evidence that Australia is home to a large but silent underclass of migrant workers, many of them international students or simply adventurous backpackers, who are rarely heard from despite widespread labor abuses.
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BANGKOK, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Thailand's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentences of Myanmar migrant workers in the high-profile murder of two British backpackers on the popular tourist island of Koh Tao in 2014.
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It used to be that when you embarked on an extended camping or backpacking trip, you'd go several days without taking a proper shower — for backpackers, this required them to maintain their hygiene in other ways.
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For the most part, Phong Nha remains home to low-key tourism like the Duck Stop farm tour, where mostly Western backpackers come to feed and take selfies with Quynh Tran's flock of 150 white ducks.
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The Blink Hacker Group said in Facebook posts and in an email interview that its attacks were in retaliation for Thailand sentencing two Burmese to death for the murder of two British backpackers late last year.
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The three-hour bus ride from Chiang Mai winds through mountain passes and cascades down into into a verdant panorama featured on many a postcard, now home to an increasing number of itinerant backpackers and escapist hippies.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Ivan Milat, one of Australia's worst convicted serial killers, has died in prison after spending 23 years behind bars for the murders of seven backpackers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, authorities said on Sunday.
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Tourism boomed even after the deadliest attack on Thai soil in peacetime at a shrine in central Bangkok shook the country and as a high profile trial for the murder of two British backpackers sullied the industry's reputation.
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Divers, land-based teams and police drones have been enlisted in the search for Amelia Bambridge, who was last seen on Thursday leaving for a beach party on the island of Koh Rong, which is popular with backpackers.
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The company was founded in 2009 by two friends, Fred Perrotta and Jeremy Michael Cohen, following a trip around Europe when they realized how inefficient and difficult-to-carry most luggage is for city-dwellers and urban backpackers.
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He mixed them in with sequined starlets and Velvet Underground backpackers; introduced them with a film clip that combined Shakespeare and Italian experimental cinema; and set them moving to the distorted tunes of Maria Callas, helicopters and sirens.
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The embassy, a Cold War legacy of North Korea's diplomatic relations with Communist East Germany, has continued to operate since German reunification in 1990, with one of its buildings turned into a low-cost hostel popular with backpackers.
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A three-hour train ride from Lisbon, Algarve is a coastal town with 150 beautiful beaches, like Benagil Caves, a hidden gem with a golden shore that backpackers have discovered, and Praia de Amoreira, a magnet to surfers.
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Other Esperanza mainstays are also still closed, including Tradewinds, an inn and restaurant; Lazy Jack's, a hostel frequented by backpackers and college students; and El Quenepo, a restaurant with dishes you'd count yourself fortunate to find in New York.
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On summer weekends the trails are a regular thoroughfare, crowded with day hikers, backpackers, thru-hikers and hut-to-hut hikers, though solitude can still be found on some of the more difficult and remote sections of the trail.
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City officials last week imposed a ban on vendors on the sidewalks of Khao San road, a favourite haunt of backpackers for its bars and cheap hostels, which is also well-known for street stalls selling food, clothes and souvenirs.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two migrant workers from Myanmar on death row in Thailand for the murder of two British backpackers in 2014 have submitted a request for King Maha Vajiralongkorn to commute their sentence to imprisonment, their lawyer said on Thursday.
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Though there are still farms in Mingaladon, it is also home to Myanmar's biggest and busiest airport, which is set to get even busier as the ever-less-secluded country assumes its place on the trails of backpackers and adventurous investors.
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This week, investigators are taking the search wide, asking park goers if they'd seen anything suspicious or recognize the backpackers in the above photograph, and offering a thousand dollar reward for information about who might have taken the priceless fossil.
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"Large quantities of foreign-produced marijuana are smuggled into the United States via personally-owned vehicles, commercial vehicles, buses, rail systems, subterranean tunnels, small boats, unmanned aerial vehicles/drones, and catapults, and are walked across by backpackers," the report added.
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Australian fruit exports are set to hit a record A$2.27 billion ($1.69 billion) next season, up 10 percent from the previous 2014/13 season, and backpackers on working holiday visas make up the bulk of fruit pickers during harvests.
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Australian fruit exports are set to hit a record A$2.27 billion ($1.63 billion) next season, up 10 percent from the previous 2014/15 season, and backpackers on working holiday visas make up the bulk of fruit pickers during harvests.
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Likewise, Mana Island is a quick boat ride away and presents a choice of destinations: One one end of the island is the Mana Island Resort and Spa and on the other is the Ratu Kini Backpackers and Dive Resort.
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On a recent visit, clusters of friends shared cocktails after work, mobile office workers tapped at computers from a library table, backpackers lounged on sofas, diners grabbed upscale burgers and one homeless man enjoyed the comfort of a wingback chair.
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Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, are the center of a manhunt spanning 2,000 miles of Canadian wilderness, after being charged with the murder of a man in British Columbia, and named as suspects in the deaths of two backpackers.
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The childhood friends Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, are the suspects in the killings of two backpackers and a separate killing of a 64-year-old man that took place more than 300 miles away from the first.
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Lebo's Soweto Backpackers offers two-hour rickshaw tours, and you don't have to be a guest at the hostel to book a spot; tours are 460 rand, and pick up and drop off can be arranged for an extra cost.
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After arriving in the chaotic transport hub for which Mestre is known, my husband and I negotiated the snarl of streets and traffic until a group of backpackers picking their way around haphazardly parked vehicles alerted us to the hotel's presence.
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Loading your pack is an art, and experienced backpackers often have strong opinions about whether a panel loader (a pack with a front that fully unzips) or a top loader (a pack you load like an open-top barrel) is preferable.
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Once a playground for Cambodia's elite, it fell on hard times during the Khmer Rouge genocide and conflicts of the 1970s and 303s before becoming a stop for backpackers and other Westerners looking for sun, sea, sand and - for some - sex.
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But the sight of two German backpackers setting up a travel stove to make their morning coffee on the steps of the 400-year-old monument was too much for a local resident, who promptly reported it to the police.
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But the sight of two German backpackers setting up a travel stove to make their morning coffee on the steps of the 400-year-old monument was too much for a local resident, who promptly reported it to the police.
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A space usually frequented by middle-aged hikers relaxing after a day of photographing butterflies with oversized lenses, or 20-something backpackers drawn to Ometepe for the punishing volcano hikes, suddenly became one of the least organic experiences human nature can provide.
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To meet the demands of backpackers—who are often criticized for participating only to bring home some dumb selfies rather than finding true religious significance—many tour operators have now included the morning almsgiving as a special option in their vacation packages.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A European hostel chain that offers youngsters the chance to stay in quirky buildings and events such as DJ sessions plans to double in size to 28 sites within five years, aiming to cater for the latest generation of backpackers.
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American, Australian, and Canadian deaths — all linkedThe two slain backpackers — a 24-year-old American named Chynna Deese and her 23-year-old Australian boyfriend, Lucas Fowler — were found by their van on the Alaska Highway with multiple bullet wounds on July 15.
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To figure out what went wrong with our national cuisine's rep, we tracked down recent visitors to the UK—from students and backpackers to award-winning chefs—and asked what they really think of the culinary offerings in this green and pleasant land.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two migrant workers from Myanmar will seek a royal pardon from Thailand's king after its Supreme Court on Thursday upheld their death sentences for the murder of two British backpackers that drew world attention to the tourist island of Koh Tao.
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The next day, I shared a taxi with German backpackers, dropping them in the little hippie town of Mazunte before continuing to Casa Sol Zipolite, a boutique hotel by the founders of Mexico City's Red Tree House, a favorite from my childless days.
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"We have consistently said agriculture simply cannot do without backpackers and, following today's announcement, we can again go to the working holiday maker community and say that coming to work on our farms is worth it," said Brent Finlay, president of the National Farmers Federation.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - There is no evidence that a Frenchman who shouted "Allahu akbar" (God is Greatest) as he stabbed a British woman to death at a backpackers' hotel in Australia was radicalised or under the influence of a political ideology, police said on Thursday.
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In February 2009, DJs Sammy Royale, Nino Brown, Stunts, Yes Yes Jill, and L-Rock gave birth to Yes Yes Y'all at the Global Villagers Backpackers hostel (RIP), located in the heart of the city at the corner of Spadina Avenue and King Street West.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said.
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Alessandro Dutto, 23, and Andrea Pertoldi, 24, two Italian backpackers, showed up after seeing a flier for the tour in their hostel, even though a fellow tourist told them not to bother because there was "nothing to see" in this part of the city.
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I was never truly comfortable with public sex, being an immigrant in fear of deportation, so the most I allowed myself to do in bars was make out, or grope, or get brought to other men's flats because I stayed at a hostel with European backpackers.
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It couches one of Future's vulnerable moments in the kind of beat that people used to be called "backpackers" over, but also one that any rapper can hear and recognize as demanding of emotional investment on their part even when removed from the original song's heavy topics.
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Johnson—who also happens to be the Employees Only principal bartender—took the same Mekhong whiskey (which is actually more like rum) that terrorizes backpackers in Thailand when mixed with Thai Red Bull and soda in those infamous buckets, and gave it the classic-cocktail treatment.
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Other content available on Seed includes a mix of conventional TV series — such as Whose Line Is It Anyway, Hellcats, Almost Human and The O.C. — and digital original series including Vixen, Stupid Hype, Backpackers, and Play It Again, Dick, a Veronica Mars spin-off released last year.
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Another mainstay in the MSR line-up, the WhisperLite Universal is without a doubt the best option for backpackers traveling outside the U.S. This stove comes with its own canister which can be filled with a variety of fuels, including white gas, kerosene, or even unleaded gasoline.
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Seidler needed to please many kinds of people: prominent Bolivians, the local press, the international press, travel bloggers, food tourists, regular tourists, backpackers, Bolivian ex-pats who are nostalgic for flavors from their childhood, and judges for Latin America's Fifty Best Restaurants, a ranking started in 2013.
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Located about an hour and a half south of Cancun by car (rental car, shuttles, and taxis all go there from Cancun airport), this "eco-chic" destination located along the narrow strip between the Mayan Jungle and the Caribbean Sea was once mostly populated by backpackers and adventure travelers.
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Read more about crime: 'Fake News,' 'MAGA' sign found pointing at Holocaust Memorial Museum in San Antonio The killing of 2 Scandinavian backpackers in Morocco has been declared an 'act of terror' as officials investigate an ISIS-style beheading videoA 17-year-old German boy went to Malta on vacation.
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The A & O Venezia Mestre is a warehouse of a hostel-hotel, with nearly 1,193 beds on multiple floors, a cavernous, industrial-chic lobby and, on a late morning in mid-May, a bevy of backpackers gathered at the mile-long reception desk or sleeping it off on the multicolored couches.
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"Hard-working Australians have been hit by the recent bushfires, but from today they can employ backpackers for six months longer, helping them at a critical time in the recovery effort," Australia's Acting Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs Alan Tudge said in a statement on February 17.
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His brother Cam dies, and it forces him back to his childhood home, where he sees his mother, a fearsomely capable old hired hand named Harry, a couple of backpackers who have stopped for work and, perhaps most crucially, the woman he once loved but who married his brother, Ilse.
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Here are the best camping coffee makers:Best camping coffee maker overall: AeroPress Coffee MakerBest camping coffee maker for backpackers: GSI Outdoors Coffee RocketBest camping coffee maker for car campers: Coleman Camping CoffeemakerBest camping coffee maker for large groups: Planetary Designs Table Top French Press Best budget camping coffee maker: Primula Coffee Brew Buddy
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The next morning, we took a ferry across the river, followed by a bus to a river port to the south, where we hopped on a wooden boat crammed with backpackers for a ride to what is known as the Four Thousand Islands area, or Si Phan Don, on the border with Cambodia.
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The rush is occurring in a tiny country — population about 19933,000 — at the Western edge of the Caribbean that was long known mostly for having one of the world's most extensive barrier reefs and for the legions of backpackers who came to trek through dense rainforest, climb Mayan ruins and camp on empty beaches.
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The company, which had its start in Berlin in 2000 and now has a presence in 21 European cities, represents a generation of budget lodging that broke the mold of what was once considered the typical backpackers' hostel: dingy dorm rooms, zero design sensibility, a place to escape as soon as you secured your bed.
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What I know is that one moment I was holding my passport and the next Marcos had it in his fist and was trotting away at a hasty clip, cutting a path through vendors hawking water and empanadas, separating huddled clumps of dredded backpackers from families consolidating their burdens by stuffing plastic bags into bigger plastic bags.
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"It's really scary how this happens in the Thai court system every day," he told VICE News after the hearing, adding that a serious point of contention over the recent conviction of two Burmese men for the murder of a pair of British backpackers on the Thai island of Koh Tao was the lack of adequate translation services they were provided throughout the proceedings.
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Here are our top picks for the best backpacking tents:Best tent overall: Big Agnes Copper Spur HV UL 2Best tent for ultralight backpacking: Nemo Hornet 2Best tent for couples: MSR Hubba Hubba NX 2Best tent for 4-season backpackers: The North Face Mountain 25Best budget-friendly tent: REI Co-op Half Dome 2 PlusThe best sleeping bags you can buyA sleeping bag is more than a matter of comfort.
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Normally, Allingham was a comic con for forestry nerds: Crosscut saw collectors would debate the merits of M tooth and Great American tooth models; SWAT — Sawyers With Attitude, a volunteer crew of septuagenarians who spend their retirement clearing downed trees — would teach new volunteers how to properly break down logs; long-distance backpackers would mill about the campfire, trading stories of hiking the Pacific Crest or Continental Divide trails.
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Read more: 3 men have been sentenced to death over the murder of 2 Scandinavian backpackers that was filmed and posted online'When I close my eyes, those images haunt me': Step mom of murdered teen social media influencer speaks out after photos of the crime spread onlineNew Mexico authorities credited an Amazon Echo with calling 911 when a woman said her boyfriend was beating her — but Amazon said it wasn't possibleA woman in Texas lived in the same home as her dead mother's decaying remains for 3 years, police say
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