Travel Diaries

Welcome to my Travel Diaries

Joao Leitao in Sahara Desert south east Morocco

On this BLOG you will find travel tips and information, photos from around the globe and, travel reports collected from my journeys.

This website compiles the information I’m gathering from my past 8 years of travel experience in over 50 countries and territories. As I’m a multipurpose traveler, I don’t restrict my travel experiences only to a specific end, transport or type of destination. This is why my tips are actually interesting. I travel doesn’t matter how, when or where: by foot, hitchhiking, driving, bus, taxi, bush taxi, camel, airplane, train or fish cargo. I sleep in the wild, luxury hotels, youth hostels, international chain hotels and campsites or in nomad tents in the desert. I go during Winter Summer Spring and Autumn.

Don’t hesitate to contact me for ideas, comments, corrections or sign my guest-book. On this page I will try to help you with your travels or preparing a travel, as I give a lot of good links that can actually help you out finding either a cheap flight or a good hotel or maybe just find a place under the stars somewhere in the Sahara. Thank you and enjoy!

You will find travel information from the following countries:

Europe: Albania; Andorra; Austria; Belgium; Bosnia i Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Ceuta; Croatia; Denmark; Czech Republic; Estonia; Finland; France; Kosovo; Macedonia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Montenegro; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakian Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom.

Africa: Gambia, Morocco, Mali; Mauritania, Senegal, Western Sahara;

Asia: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Israel; Jordan; Nagorno-Karabakh; Palestine; Iran; Kazakhstan; Turkey; Uzbekistan;

America: United States, Canada, Cuba;

TOTAL: 55 countries & territories

beach high-way, auto-estrada da praia, mauritania, nouamghar
( Legendary Beach Highway after Nouamghar, Mauritania. December 2003 )

Fernão Mendes Pinto data 1580

««Mais espantados ficariam se as tivessem visto como eu as vi: cortejos com milhares de figurantes, multidões em movimentos aguerridos, manadas de elefantes conduzidos por soldados (como se cavalos de batalha fossem aquelas alimárias), naufrágios em que se perderam tesouros e mais tesouros, travessias de pântanos e florestas com feras muitas, combates em alto mar em que todos (ou quase todos) pereceram, cidades cercadas e logo mais totalmente destruídas por incêndios, princesas formosas em seus palácios deslumbrantes e mendigos mutilados, paixões e desvarios…»»