The travel rants blog carnival continues and I have six outstanding blog posts to review, and thoroughly enjoyed reading all of them. As I tour the internet looking for great travel content I will be adding the potential carnival blog posts on to my StumbleUpon blog.

Let the carnival commence

An in-depth, well written blog post on Japanese customs, and I was surprised to learn that tipping in restaurants, cabs etc is actually insulting, so don’t tip. I’d love to visit Japan, it just looks like a magical place, but I am not sure I could cope eating with chopsticks.

10 Japanese customs you must know

I came across Chris on Twitter, and I am jealous of his travels around the world. What I like about his blog posts are that they are thought provoking, and if you are thinking about travelling then this is a must read post which features tips on health care, travel safety and culture.

28 Things I wish I knew before travelling

Having been to the top of the Petronas towers, and climbed over Sydney harbour bridge, I can relate to this blog post which highlights the worlds top attractions for those thrill seekers. It’s the first time I’ve seen a picture of Taipei 101, world’s tallest building at a height of 1,670 feet.

World’s top10 Vertigo inducing attractions

Tripso cover a controversial subject that has been discussed here on travel rants. They ask if passengers should be weighed like baggage and charged accordingly. My response is shock, but I do agree that if you take up two seats you should be made to pay for them.

Charging passengers by weight

These hotels certainly have the wow factor, and this travel blogger wishes he could afford to stay in this quality of hotel, maybe when I win the lottery. I loved this blog post primarily because of the pictures of these awesome hotels.

10 Insanely beautiful hotels worth travelling for

I’ve known the Travellerspoint team before I started writing Travel rants. I love their newest feature which allows you to see which community member is staying at the same hotel as you at the same time. If you travel alone, it’s a very useful feature to be able to arrange to meet up with other travellers.

A closer look at social bookings

If you have written a blog post that you think deserves to be reviewed in the travel rants blog carnival then please contact me. I am using Twitter, Google Reader and StumbleUpon to find my favourite travel content, so feel free to add me as a friend or follower.

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