Boat Travel

Vagabond Journey’s exploration of the world’s ports continues with the old, traditional port of Jakarta: Sunda Kelapa.

I was hanging out at a ferry port in Singapore and saw a ticket booth for Batam, Indonesia. What’s Batam? Never heard of it, so I decided to go there to find out.

Traveling by boat through Argentina’s Paraná Delta.

The journey by boat from Xiamen to Kinmen.

Going between the islands of Flores and Sumba shows what life aboard an Indonesian Ferry is really like.

It’s raining pretty hard now and the kayak is filling with water and my improvised bilge pump – a plastic bag – has a hole in it. I’m very slowly sinking, and for the past three hours the only solid land I’ve seen is the 4 foot vertical wall of peat along the river which [...]

Just getting onboard an Indonesian ferry for the three day journey to the Moluccas, once known as the Spice Islands, is a traumatic effort. Especially when one is travelling in economy class with chicken.

A boat is almost an essential piece of exploration gear in China. There are just too many navigable waterways in this country for a traveler to ignore.

An inflatable boat would be the perfect way to navigate some countries. I discover that this is not a new idea in exploration.