Travel Writing Library

I thought I had chosen Caroline. But looking back, I realise - Caroline had chosen me.

When stepping inside the building, I admired one spot with what we called it as a stationary object. That resembled a made-by-human massive stone. And that also a kind of part history which built in several...

When given the opportunity, I will usually choose the road less traveled. This was the case when I had the chance to travel to Bogota, Colombia.

“There is a light on the Afghan side.” I put my plastic bowl of mashed potato down and stared hard through the evening gloom to the opposite bank of the river. To where we thought there had been no-one.

‘Pssssth… psssth… splat’ went the intestine sausage as our Mongolian nomad host jabbed the sizzling entrail with a fork, sending boiling hot yellow yak pus flying across the ger.

Tomorrow I leave for my trip to Tanzania. I made sure I got my yellow fever injection and took my malaria tablets ( I declined the other injections which completely scarred me. What on earth is Meningococcal Disease??)

A true and close encounter with nature makes an impact for life. Many years ago I worked as a volunteer at a wildlife sanctuary in Namibia. One night one of the volunteers and I was lucky enough to be allowed to...

It was mid-afternoon on a windy, white-washed day when we first saw the sign. The four of us had been walking non-stop since breakfast, heavy packs on our backs and waterproofs at the ready.

One of the great things about travelling is that you get to meet a lot of new people in a very short space of time. Remembering exactly who they all are and what they all look like, however, is not always easy.

The six legs of the plate sized spider begin easing its blue body across the wall towards the lavatory footrest. My son has already discreetly removed one scorpion from the soap rack.