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Top Bars in Buenos Aires - Your Favourite Buenos Aires Bars

Top Bars in Buenos Aires - Your Favourite Buenos Aires Bars

Beautiful Buenos Aires has a whole range of attractions for visitors to South America, and its nightlife offering is one of its top draws.

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Top Music Festivals in 2012

Top Music Festivals in 2012

Hordes of live music fans descend on festival grounds around the world every year where they spend days baking in the summer sun or slip-sliding through muddy fields to hear the world's top bands. Here, we look at some of this year's best music festivals.

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Hostels with swimming pools in the Southern Hemisphere

Hostels with swimming pools in the Southern Hemisphere

How would you like to wake up and have just steps to walk to take a dip in your very own pool? Or be able to grab a cocktail at the bar without ever leaving the water or even your hostel? Sounds like paradise right? Imagine all this, but getting it for a budget price. If you’re visiting the Southern Hemisphere any time soon, why not book into one of these great hostels with swimming pools.

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Boats beers and beautiful Bruges

Boats, beers and beautiful Bruges

It won't take long to discover why Bruges' is Belgium's most visited cit. It is remarkably clean, it has two of the country's most beautiful squares and, by taking a short canal trip, you can see the entire city in a day.

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Chic Hostels

Credit crunch sees hostels turn from bleak to chic

No longer are hostels the drab, sparsely furnished dormitories of yester year. Hostels have finally come of age. The general public are now catching on that hostels have turned from bleak to chic.

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Meet the team - Kilian Maxwell

Meet the team - Kilian Maxwell

Hostelworld.com's staff member Killian Maxwell shares his favourite travel memories and over the last few years.

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How backpacking has changed

How backpacking has changed

Things have changed over the last ten years in terms of backpacking. Over the last decade online reviews have been preferred to those in guidebooks, the term 'flashpacker' has been coined, and you can book online to give yourself piece of mind. Read on to find out Hostelworld.com's top ten ways backpacking has changed over the decade...

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50 things to do for free in Asia

50 things to do for free in Asia

Are you planning a visit to Asia? Want to know where to see the best sunsets? Or where to find some great markets? Then check out our 50 free things to do in Asia.

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