15 Of The Wildest Travel Stories That'll Make You Laugh Or Cry

When you decide to strap on a backpack, you are essentially inviting all kinds of weirdness into your life. Here are Travel Bloggers' wildest, most incredible anecdotes from their time on the road.

1. Speakeasy & Salsa - A Night Out in Quito

Resfeber / Via resfebertravelblog.com

Things went from a few quiet beers after a long bus journey to completely out of hand. A night out can very quickly escalate in the Ecuadorian capital. (click the blue link above to read the full story)

2. When Things Go Bump In The Night

Janis Couvreux / Via janiscouvreux.com

When you're awoken by a loud noise late at night, whilst on your sailboat, in a strange and foreign port. With your family on-board, you're bound to start freaking out. A classic, award winning travel tale from Janis Couvreax.

3. That Time a Hippo Attacked Me in South Africa

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As a wheelchair adventurer, Cory Lee's access-all-areas travel is an inspiration to millions but it does mean getting out of the way of a Hippo in attack mode is no easy task.

4. Hitting The Wall

Winging The World / Via wingingtheworld.com The Great Wall of China

When you reluctantly accept a tour to the Great Wall of China from a strange man on the street, then look under the seat in his car and see a giant knife! Stay safe, guys.

5. A Girl, a Photo and an Earthquake: An Astonishing Connection Over 20+ Years

Whole World Wide Toys / Via wholewideworldtoys.com

The connections that we make as travellers can be profoundly important, to us and those we connect with. What a story.

6. Triple Breakdown Mongolia

Food Fun Travel / Via foodfuntravel.com Not To Travel Mongolia

Take a trip in a van named “Turquoise Disaster” with a three-pronged breakdown of 1) communication 2) engine and 3) emotions. No one said it would be easy.

7. I Was Accused of Being An Islamic State Spy

Against The Compass / Via againstthecompass.com

Crossing borders can sometimes be a bit tricky. But it's kind of an essential component if you're planning to travel. Yikes.

8. Stranded In Istanbul During 2016 Military Coup

Drifter Planet / Via drifterplanet.com

Imagine, if you opened the curtains in your hotel room, to see tanks rolling down the street? Oh my giddy aunt.

9. Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls

Practical Wanderlust / Via practicalwanderlust.com

You know what they say: "Accident prone? Stay at home". Or you could completely ignore that and get stuck halfway down a waterfall. Totally up to you.

10. Travelling High, Breathing Deep

Resfeber Travel Blog / Via resfebertravelblog.com

One backpacker learns that the highest capital city on earth is probably not the best place to contract a lung disease. And getting down is NOT easy.

11. Hanging With Japanese Mafia Drinking Snake Juice

Kristopher Pritchard / Photograph: Kristopher Pritchard / Via thebucketlistlifestyle.com

What's that you say... "The Snake juice and coke mixture was a little too intense, even for a night in The Red Light District of Tokyo". Errr, okay.

12. The Time I Shat Myself In A Tibetan Monastery

NOMADasaurus / Via nomadasaurus.com Time I Shat Myself In A Tibetan Monastery

When you gotta go, you gotta go!

13. Put Up by a Porn Surfing Policeman

4 Corners 7 Seas / Via 4corners7seas.com

That awkward moment when you ask your host to send an email and there's a bunch of porn videos, playing on his computer.

14. Petting a Crocodile in Bangladesh

197 Travel Stamps / Via 197travelstamps.com

Not sure if this is brave or stupid but that is one hell of a Facebook profile pic.

15. Volunteering During The Ebola Crisis

Two Dusty Travellers / Via twodustytravelers.com

Wow! Just wow!