Adding new community features has again kept me busy this week, and I’m pleased to announce the latest addition to everyone’s user profiles: Countries Visited. Travellers can now update countries visited from their profile dashboard (the tabbed menu in sidebar on the profile pages). Click ‘Edit Profile’, then go to the ‘Countries Visited’ tab to […]

At the moment we have 2 monthly awards up for grabs in recognition of just some of the great stuff that Ubertrampers are contributing to the community.
The April’s Article of the Month award went to Somkid for his honest and straight talking article on How to Avoid Tourist Scams in Bangkok. More of his work […]

I know it’s been a while since my last post, so here’s a quick update on the latest happenings within the ubertramp.com world of webgeekery.
In short, ubertramp is finally going great guns again and is all systems go – and, right now, I must thank all the readers who’ve been popping back from time […]

Due to our current host awardspace.com offering such a poor value package and being populated by the most obnoxious, unhelpful ’support’ team on the face of the planet, we are delighted to be parting company and moving to another host. Unfortunately, due to my rather miniscule knowledge of how all this works, I’m sure […]

‘Step away from the keyboard! …Put the mouse down and come out slowly…’

I suppose I already knew, but I can now confirm that baaaaaad things can happen when you decide to ‘tinker with the site’. Still, the phrase ‘omelettes and eggs’ comes to mind…but so does ‘tears before bedtime’…

Thanks to a handful of increasingly popular hospitality exchange websites there’s now a new way to make friends and backpack for less - in fact, it could be a whole new way to travel. Increase your couch karma and get with the program!

Another backpacking tip demonstrating a way to hide money whilst backpacking - all you need is a crappy pen.

Want to visit Las Vegas but are afraid it’ll crucify the budget? If this is so, a post highlighting the cheaper side of ‘Lost Wages’ should come as welcome news. With info and links highlighting cheap accomodation, cheap eats and cheap thrills in Las Vegas, backpackers can now love it (or hate it), too!