Filed under: Cultures, Oceania, Books I've been waiting to get my hands on the newest gut-busting travel tale by writer J. Maarten Troost so that I can review it here. His last (and first?) book Sex lives of Cannibals was absolutely superb. These islands, it turns out, are not quite as idyllic as Bronislaw Malinowski would have you believe.

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• Troost's Getting Stoned

All this became part of the experience, and I have to laugh now in hindsight at what a fragile traveler I was, seeing as though we experienced much of the same on the way back, and we were the first one in the water, ready to push. Our guide gave us each a bamboo stick with a string and a hook on the end and told us, "Now, go fish."

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• Piranha Fishing in the Pantanal

Thus, all dreams are possible, and therefore maybe I think there is nothing strange about a trip to North Korea, Kabul, Afghanistan, Helicopters tours in Kyrgyzstan, Ice Diving at the North Pole, or just a normal trip to Libya. Jeroen at Nat Tours just off of Khao San Road can sit around and discuss the pros and cons of many interesting locations.

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• Extreme Travel