Cost/day: $70/day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? A monitor lizard!! I wasn't even in the park. I was just walking down the road, and I almost tripped over it. It was HUGE and scared me to death. I have been in awe of all of the different types of animals in Yala Park,...

Cost/day (for a family of five): Rent in the indigenous village- $3.50/day Food- $15/day (we bought and cooked our own food or picked whatever the land provided) School- kids attended for free, in exchange for us teaching English Hospitalization and medications- free Strangest thing we've seen lately: Before his wish to die, but well after...

Cost/day: About $80 per day (hostel, portion of car rental, food/drinks). What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? There are animals roaming free everywhere. Sheep hopping from rock to rock, horses walking out in front of your car, birds dive-bombing you when you’re walking. Of course, the entire landscape of Iceland is strange and other-worldly....

Cost/day: $20 What's the strangest thing you've seen lately? Evidence of Google Translate is everywhere. I constantly find signs and packages in nonsensical English. Take, for example, this paper bag from a local cookie shop: "The infinity love which is not condition of the father who thinks the family." Describe a typical day: I have...

Cost/day: $40/day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? Our family of seven is camping in Mexico beneath a full moon and enjoying a tranquil evening after crossing the border into this 'dangerous' country. Just the day before, we were warned that we were 'risking our children's lives' by taking them to such a lawless...

Cost/day: $80/day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? I discovered the smallest island in the world in Sumatra. It’s made entirely of sand, and it’s covered in starfish. The locals call it Sand Island. It’s off the coast of Belitung Island in Southern Sumatra. The island is so small that there isn’t even a...

Cost/day: $50/day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? The Panama Canal. I sat on the observation deck for hours, watching in amazement as several ships passed through one of mankind’s greatest engineering feats – which saves ships the arduous 8,000 mile (12,875 km) journey around South America by connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean....

Cost/day: $40 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? A gold coloured gun as it was being stuck at my nose by a young man on the streets of Mendoza. I'm no gun expert, but something felt weird about the gun. Also, the young man holding it was smaller than I was and for some...

Cost/day: $50-70 a day What's the strangest thing you've seen lately? The collective depression of San Francisco’s denizens after their beloved 49’ers lost a thrilling Superbowl against the Baltimore Raven’s was a strange and unfortunate phenomenon to witness. Red-clad, boozed and bleary eyed folk sat in the few bars that bothered to stay open, mumbling...

Cost/day: $15 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? It's really hard to imagine a sight much stranger than the one of dinosaur foot prints standing right next to your own feet but that's what you get in a lot of places in Bolivia. When we visited the incredible but often overlooked Torotoro national park,...

Cost: $20/day What's the strangest thing you've seen lately? My good friend Alex was bitten by a piranha whilst attempting to swim with pink river dolphins outside of Rurrenabaque. Our guide had assured us that the alligators lining the rivers edge and the piranhas dwelling within the brown water wouldn’t bother us, because they were...

Cost/day: $60/day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? The massive amounts of Soviet-era and communist monuments were the strangest. As an American and son of Polish revolutionary parents who were involved in overthrowing the communist government in Poland, it was very interesting to see such communist icons be idolized and celebrated. Most places don’t...

Cost/day: $15 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? Visiting the Huaca del Sol ruins near Trujillo was fascinating and is a great reminder that there is a lot more to Peru than just Inca ruins. Indeed, the Huaca del Sol is around 1500 years old and well predates the Inca ruins which are, relatively,...

(Sydney - Harbor Bridge) Cost/day: $75-250 (depending on lodging and meals) Hello and g-day from down under! How are you going? That last bit, “how are you going” always trips me up - I never know whether to answer to “how are you doing” or “where are you going”. I’ve been living in Sydney since...

Cost: $130/day! What's the strangest thing you've seen lately? Diminutive, lean, weather-worn, mountain men carry immense packs stuffed with tents, cooking implements, sleeping bags and the like for tourists making the three and a half day trek along the official Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. These are the Chaski's . They charge up and down...

Cost/day: $45/day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? People still drive the Yugo here – commonly known as the worst car in history. I learned a few Yugo jokes while here: How do you instantly double the value of a Yugo? Fill up the fuel tank. Why are there rear-window heaters in the Yugo?...

Cost/day: $15 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? If I could have seen myself, it would have been me as I climbed over a fense into a field with a bunch of cows to go around a pack of angry dogs that were on our hiking trail and scared the stuffing out of me...

Cost: $20 a day What's the strangest thing you've seen recently? In and around Huaraz it's common to see elderly Quechua woman ambling along paths, bent backed, hauling heavy loads in carrying cloths called K'eperina. Garbed in colourful attire, bowler hats perched upon their heads, they doggedly trek along steep, high altitude slopes that would...

Cost/day: $40/day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? With a pint of Guinness in hand, I listened to an old, Irish man play his guitar and sing folk songs about Ireland’s beautiful country side, fight for independence and love of drinking while the entire bar sang along. It is rare - and strange -...

Cost/day: $100 to $150 - There aren't many cheap ways to see the Galapagos What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? The Galapagos islands are full of some fascinating and beautiful animals. The most striking part of any trip to the Galapagos however, is how absolutely unafraid the animals are of humans. We walked around...