Post-apocalyptic Oregon acts as the setting of Days Gone and the game’s open-world is a marvel to behold. Split into six different regions peppered with story missions, side-quests and survivor tasks, there is a lot to do and a lot of places to go.

However, with the world being so large you might wonder whether there is a faster way to make it from point A to point B.

While driving places on your bike is certainly thrilling, it’s also time-consuming and puts you at risk from Freaker attacks and marauder ambushes.

Thankfully, a fast travel option exists in the game which allows you to immediately travel from one checkpoint to another.

You will only be able to travel to certain areas, specifically camps and cleared-out ambush camps. But because of the number of ambush camps in each region you’ll find that you can fast travel to almost every corner of the map.

How to Clear Infestations to Fast Travel in Days Gone

Before you can fast travel to a location, you must first clear all the infestation zones that stand between you and your destination.

Infestation zones are too dangerous to fast travel through given the amount of Freakers which congregate in these areas, but clearing their nests makes the roads safer and unlocks the fast travel option.

Nests can be destroyed with fire (Molotov cocktails work best) and, once you’ve cleared all of them in a given area, you’ll be able to open the map, select an ambush/survivor camp and press square to fast travel there.

However, there are stipulations. In order to use the fast travel feature, you have to meet several requirements.

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Days Gone Fast Travel Tips

Fuel Up

As we alluded to at the start, your motorbike must have enough fuel to fast travel to a location.

Even though you aren’t physically driving yourself to your destination, the act of moving around the world will deplete your bike’s fuel tank.

It’s important to take account of how much fuel you’ll use travelling to each location, and this will be outlined in the cost of each journey when you select which camp you want to fast travel to.

One of the most common mistakes newbies make is travelling too far across the map only to find yourself stuck in the middle of nowhere with no fuel. Make sure you plan your journeys accordingly before you fast travel anywhere!

No Fighting

You’ll also be banned from using fast travel during combat, or when enemies are aware of you. This means you cannot evade an angry Freaker horde by trying to fast travel to a safer location. If you’re having trouble with hordes, check out our handy horde guide here.

Fast travel is definitely a necessity in the vast open-world of Days Gone, so make sure you utilise it sensibly!

Don’t forget! Daily Star Gaming also has you covered for Days Gone Historical Marker locations in each of the game’s regions, as well as boss guides, survival tips and more!

As far as telly shows go, Game of Thrones is one of the most beautiful. It has a large budget – which helps – but also makes up a lot of ground by utilising some of the world’s most beautiful places.

Malta, Croatia, and Northern Ireland have all featured heavily on the show, but now one Instagram travel blogger has shared her images from travelling the world and recreating some iconic scenes from the world’s biggest TV show.

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Joezel Rizi Nubla is a Filipino development associate manager living in France by day, but in her spare time she likes to take photographs, travel the world, and watch Game of Thrones.

So that’s exactly what she did.

Credit: Instagram/Joezel Rizi Nubla

Travelling to Malta, Morocco, Croatia, Northern Ireland and Spain, she has faithfully recreated some of the most iconic scenes from GoT.

Joezel told LADbible: “I have a lot of hobbies and passions, and two of them is photography and travelling. I am not very technical on photography; I do whatever my mood tells me.

“But, I am very meticulous on everything I post in social media, as I always want to project happy lively thoughts. It is also the reason why most of my pictures are vivid, colourful and in high contrasts.”

Credit: Instagram/Joezel Rizi Nubla

She continued: “I want to inspire my friends to travel as well through my pictures. Being in Europe, I took advantage of how easy it was to travel around, and it is the best opportunity to go to the shooting locations of Game of Thrones as most of the locations are here in Europe.

“As a big fan of Game of Thrones, I was so excited when I was planning my first trip to Seville, Spain, that I was giggling all the time.”

Credit: Instagram/Joezel Rizi Nubla

She added: “I just thought it was fun to recreate them. If I’m not able to meet the actors from Game of Thrones in person, at least I get to stand and replicate their poses on the exact places they had been to.

“The funny story about most of these pictures is that I was alone when I took them using a tripod. I was totally ashamed during those times, but anything for Game of Thrones!”

Credit: Instagram/Joezel Rizi Nubla

Outside of Game of Thrones travelling, Joezel also shares her travels to other countries on her Instagram page. However, her favourite location in the show is Dubrovnik.

To be fair, Northern Ireland has it’s charm, but Croatia does have the weather.

We should know this afternoon if you’ll be able to drive to Ottawa this weekend on Highway 17.

The MTO has promised an update by 4 p.m. so travellers can make weekend plans.

“We are working as quickly as we can to make repairs. We will open the highway as soon as it is safe to do so,” says Brandy Duhaime, MTO Regional Communications Coordinator.

The phrase “Go back to Africa” is one that has long been used to promote hate and racism toward African Americans, but one travel and lifestyle company is looking to change that.

Called Black & Abroad, the platform is taking the derogatory phrase, “Go Back to Africa,” and using it as the title of a new pan-African tourism campaign.

According to NetBase’s social listening platform, “Go Back to Africa” is used over 4,500 times a month online, so Black & Abroad partnered with FCB/SIX and IPG’s Initiative Media to create a campaign that combats this racist phrase and showcases African American travelers visiting one of Africa’s 54 countries.

The campaign involves paid ads on Twitter, Youtube and OOH “that blacks out hate-fueled Twitter posts and reframes them into positive tourism messages showing the beauty and diversity of Africa’s 54 countries.”

“One of the campaign’s goals is to effectively strip the perceived power away from those who use the phrase ‘Go back to Africa’ with derogatory intent,” says Eric Martin, co-founder of Black & Abroad. “If we can strip the expression of its impact by showing more diverse pictures of this beautiful continent, then we can debunk the age-old narrative that Africa is a desolate, disease-ridden wasteland undeserving of our time and travels.”

Additionally, the campaign is using Google Vision’s image recognition technology to find photos of African American travelers traveling through Africa. After locating the photos, determining their quality and gaining permission to use them, those pictures are shared on Black & Abroad’s social channels and website in an effort to inspire black travelers to visit Africa.

As it says on Black & Abroad’s website: “It’s a pan-African tourism campaign—for every country in Africa—designed to reframe the story. It’s also designed to flood the Internet with positive images of and ideas about African Americans traveling in Africa. So we can see ourselves there. And maybe get inspired to go there. Not because someone told us to. But because at its core, going back to Africa can be an amazing experience.”

At the same time, the campaign highlights the lack of diverse travelers in travel images, whether its in ads or commercials or among stock images.

Travellers heading to and from south Wales at the weekend have been warned of major travel disruption that could affect thousands of sports supporters.

Roads in central Cardiff will shut on Saturday as 60,000 rugby fans are due at the Judgement Day Welsh derby showpiece at the Principality Stadium.

The main rail line between south Wales and London and England’s south coast is shut due to work in the Severn Tunnel.

The A465 Heads of the Valley road is also shut between Gilwern and Brynmawr.

Passengers are warned trains around Cardiff will be “busy all day” so Transport for Wales are advising people to travel early.

Rail travellers between Newport and Bristol will also be affected as buses will replace trains over the weekend as engineers upgrade the Severn Tunnel.

So football fans heading to London for Cardiff City’s crucial Premier League game with Fulham on Saturday may be affected.

Great Western Railway passengers travelling between south Wales and London are warned journeys will take an hour longer as direct trains will go via Gloucester.

Part of the busy Heads of the Valley route is closed for the weekend in the latest phase of an £800m upgrade of the main Swansea to Midlands road.

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A five-mile (8km) stretch of the A465 between Abergavenny and Brynmawr is being shut as the road is turned into a dual carriageway.

Drivers will have to use a 27-mile diversion through Abergavenny, Pontypool and Crumlin.

Those works could affect football fans from Hull visiting Swansea City for Saturday’s Championship game at the Liberty Stadium.

If you’re considering a trip to Disney World this summer, there’s a deal you should know about.

This summer Disney World is offering discounted room rates at several Disney Resort hotels. Guests can save up to 25 percent, depending on the hotel, as well as receive gift cards at check-in to use during their stay.

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I’m a solo traveler! For me, one of the greatest thrills of backpacking is to rock up somewhere completely new and meet a whole new crowd of people, backpackers and locals alike. I have done a huge amount of both solo and group travel and I highly recommend you have a crack at both of them. When it comes to getting my friends to come out and travel with me for a bit I am a convincing bastard, so far I have managed to get eight of my friends from home to come out on trips with me at one time or another. What I used to do on longer trips is make a Facebook group with my, very rough, itinerary on it so people can work out when and where they want to join me.

Travelling with a friend is not only great fun and good for your budget (you can split transport and accommodation costs) but it is also a very effective way to minimize risk; if you get sick or injured your buddy can look after you. In India I literally carried a friend (who was suffering from anaphylactic shock) on my shoulder to a medical clinic where he was injected with adrenaline. In Nepal I slipped whilst suffering from altitude sickness and ended up hanging over an icy ridge with a sheer drop below me, my trekking buddy was able to pull me back onto the path and probably saved my life. Whilst backpacking it is usually pretty easy to find a travel buddy, I met a Dutch couple in a coffee shop in India and ended up travelling on and off with them for nearly five months.

If none of your friends are able to come with you then do not despair! One of the main reasons some backpackers never leave home is because they are worried they won’t meet anyone, they will be lonely and everything will basically suck. The reality could not be further from this. The backpacker community is awesome, everybody is extremely friendly and in general people will be really keen to invite you for a beer or to have a wander around together. It’s also really quite easy to find a travel buddy before you even get on the plane by turning to the internet…

If you are preparing to hit the road for the first time, check out my book; The Backpacker Bible – you will learn everything you need to know about longterm sustainable travel and how to earn money on the road!

Find a travel buddy online

As well as being a great place for finding free accommodation CS is also a great site for finding travel buddies. I have found numerous people through the site groups (forums) who I have traveled with for a few weeks at a time. On one occasion it didn’t work out so well but there was no pressure and we just went our separate ways. The best groups to look in are the ‘Backpacker’ group and the ‘Travel buddies’ group as well as checking out the specific group for whichever country or region you are visiting – often people will post in country or city groups asking if other CSers are around for drinks or to see if people are looking to travel with another lone backpacker for a bit. It is definitely worth heading to any local CS meetings in your area.

Challenge Chum

A great new initiative aimed at connecting adventurous souls looking for a buddy to do something epic with… Definitely one to watch, Challenge Chum will hopefully grow into a large community of explorers, athletes, challengers and nomads over the next year.

Travbuddy

I have used this site on a couple of occasions and found it to be a good way to liaise with other travelers heading in the same direction. I prefer the CS system as it tends to be quicker to contact people however this site is specifically designed for finding travel partners and should still be checked out.

Thorntree

It is always worth checking out Lonely Planet’s online forum for up to date information on where you are going and to find other backpackers headed in the same direction.