Stroll past the dozens of stalls serving food to the fascinated tourists excitedly pointing at giant, steaming woks of noodles, dried sticks of skewered insects and whirring blenders filled with local fruits, and you'll find the experience to be an exquisite assault on the senses. Bright lights above each stall harshly illuminate the menus, which...

Slow and steady wins the race, but sometimes it's the hare that gets the best travel deals. The great productivity website Lifehacker had this article on the virtues of being late: How to plan an awesome, last-minute vacation on the cheap . The article covers everything from choosing the destination to booking a flight to...

Pop quiz, hotshot: what are the best travel tips you can share? I'm more comfortable writing stories about other travelers. This time, I was on the other side. Jessica Spiegel, a fellow vagablogger, put me in the hot seat in Budget Traveler Interview: Marcus Sortijas . The piece was displayed on the website CheapTicketLinks ,...

A urinal in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Photo: Marcus Sortijas Travel writers have it easy. They get to see the world, express their creativity through storytelling, have adventures--and their company pays for it all! How sweet is that? Seth Kugel, the current writer of The New York Times "Frugal Traveler" column, bursts that bubble in his...