Julia Dimon

Julia Dimon is a TV host, writer and travel expert who has traveled around the world four times, to over six continents, across over 80 countries.

Prior to joining the Outside TV team, Julia hosted a popular online travel series called Destination Getaway for MSNBC. She also co-hosted Word Travels., a 40-episode TV series about the real lives of travel writers, broadcast worldwide on National Geographic Adventure and Travel Channel International.

Julia has been featured as a travel expert by ABC Nightline, NBC New York Non-Stop, NBC New York Nightly News, Forbes Traveler, MSNBC, Outside’s Go Magazine, Budget Travel, Arthur Frommer’s radio show, Peter Greenberg radio, as well as other major media outlets.

Julia was a keynote speaker for the NY Times Travel Show (the largest consumer and travel trade show produced in the United States, featuring more than 500 tourism boards and 23,000 attendees), the Boston Globe Travel Show, The Chicago Tribune Travel & Adventure Show and the Washington, DC Travel & Adventure Show.

This hard-core travel junkie has trained as a gladiator in Rome, trekked the Egyptian pyramids, confronted Santa Claus in the Arctic Circle, eaten deep-fried guinea pig in Ecuador, bungee jumped in Zambia, run with bulls in Portugal and learned to speak Klingon in the Star Trek town of Vulcan.

From the depths of the Great Barrier Reef to the top of Machu Picchu, she's hiked with silverback gorillas in Uganda, snorkeled with whale sharks in Mozambique, jogged The Great Wall of China, dog-sledded in Greenland, braved radio-active hogs in Chernobyl, spent a night of ‘torture’ in a former Latvian prison, camped with lions in the Serengeti and fearlessly snacked on local delicacies such as silk worm, goat brain, six-inch scorpion, fresh Cobra blood and severed human toe. For some of these video highlights check out: http://www.traveljunkiejulia.com/around-the-world-with-julia-dimon-check...