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Lessons learnt from solo travelling in Taiwan — from a Muslim girl who doesn’t speak Mandarin 🙊 Seeing my older sisters solo travel has inspired me to have it on my bucket list as well. They would come back with...
If you're on this page, you might be wondering what it's like being an intern at The Travel Intern. Here's a sneak peek to what your first two weeks might be like: The TTI Bootcamp can be summarised as a...
16 travellers, four teams, two islands, and one crazy adventure. If you're on this page, you're probably wondering what it's like to be in The Travel Intern. Read our other bootcamp articles, and you'll find out it's definitely not all...
Stuck at home with nothing to do during phase one? We have some ideas to keep you busy — just tell us what's your travel style! 🛫 Always on the move. For some reason, Singaporeans are always on the move. However,...
Whether you're on the road or stuck at home, there's really no excuse to slack off on your fitness routine. Here's how to stay in shape, just eight minutes a day with this simple eight-minute full-body home workout! From...
Working from home rule #1: It is not an extended weekend. You probably know by now that all over the world, Governments are dishing out Work from Home (WFH) orders to prevent the COVID-19 virus from spreading further. Working anywhere...
Literally our coolest (and warmest) trip ever. Practical tips on surviving the sub-zero temperatures below! When you're travelling in sub-zero climates, there are three words which are so useless and obvious, they should never need to be said. Yet you'd...
Co-written by: Lesha Mansukhani, Kimberly Lai & Karin Lew The TTI Bootcamp is best described as a torture chamber a rite of passage where every new batch of interns are thrown into a mystery destination and introduced to the hell...
From a 30-inch luggage to a cabin-sized backpack. Look ma no hands! When I travel, I like to feel secure and reassured that everything I need to live my life is readily available in my luggage. So, when I was...
Things can go very wrong when you're getting hot, wet, and naked. Cultural exposure comes in many forms: Trying local food. Learning foreign phrases. Getting naked in front of strangers. To understand a country’s culture, you gotta expose yourself —...
If you haven't heard, applications for the 2020 Travel Intern Programme are now open! But first, you might want to read this ;) Last year, I left my Parent-Approved Corporate Job™ to write for The Travel Intern, which my peers refer...
What's so bánh-tastic and un-phở-gettable about the TTI bootcamp in Vietnam? If you ask mì it's gà-ht to be spending three days in a five-storey airbnb with 13 other crazies. Don't cha wish you were there? It's been three years...
The TTI Ambassadors Boot Camp continues for its third run with 17 travellers plunging into Phuket to spend 72 hours together. Besides idyllic island life and insane adventures, of course, unfortunate mishaps had to happen too. "Shagggggg." "Crazy." "You won't sleep one,...
After the inaugural TTI Ambassadors Boot Camp in Penang (2017), this time 17 travellers head to Bali, Indonesia to spend 3 days together. With surprises ranging from pleasant to "shookening", here's a blow-by-blow account of what we got ourselves...
In 2017, The Travel Intern ran our very first TTI Bootcamp in Penang. Intensive training, travelling with other creators (who were strangers before this) and working on crunch time forgoing sleep — sounds intensive? It is. But it's also...
The month-long internship — travelling 3 weeks non-stop covering 4 destinations — is over! Our two Travel Interns share their go-to steps to surviving The Travel Intern Life, with all limbs (and sanity) intact. 1. Setting expectations Rachel: It is first important to recognise...
And we are currently down to our very last post on The Travel Intern life (before application for the new internship starts). Since this is going to sound cliche anyway, why not string all the common phrases together: 3 months...
I must say, the thought of travelling to India scared me a little initially. The unfamiliarity of travelling to a foreign land, danger of being in a place with such bad media reputation, and one where hygiene standards isn't exactly the highest. Ok...
On week 9 of my internship, I went on my very first media trip to Zhengzhou, China. It was a 5-day trip around the Henan province, organised by Tigerair. So here's my experience with my bunch of new friends! What Is A Media...
After discovering a whole new world of Geocaching, we finally had a go at it ourselves! In case you're wondering, Geocaching is a world-wide treasure hunt where clues are given through coordinates or puzzles in a general area to find a...

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