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Our white minibus hurtled down the gravelly mud road like an apparition against the indigo blanket of night. Besides crushing of heavy wheels against small stones and thumping of hearts against ribcages...

Munnar- the place I’ve travelled most. The land packed with misty mountains that rise up to the clouds. It seems like the hills are painted with cascading waterfalls and carpeted in tea plantations. And the weather...

The island of Majorca is one of the favorite holiday destinations of German tourists. So I always wanted to visit it, to see with my own eyes, if it was as nice, as everybody said. One year me and my husband finally went there.

My sixth scuba dive at Luganville, Vanuatu, was the most amazing experience ever, and so very nearly my last. I was one of a small group of divers following the rope down to the wreck of the USS President Coolidge.

Morning was greeted by beating drums and chants as the locals carted their colourful donations towards the Nyaung Shwe monastery. It was the second last day of the national holiday and the annual donations...

I hadn’t slept well despite the airport hotel’s comfy bed. My first flight had been delayed, and I’d arrived at Heathrow late, set the alarms on both cell phones, asked for an alarm call from reception for back up...

The white Mazda truck gleamed in the gathering dusk. The driver was smoking under a nearby baobab tree. As he ground the cigarette butt beneath his feet and ambled to the truck, people appeared from nowhere...

It was January, 2000 and my dad and I were sitting on top of a rocky promontory in Torres del Paine National Park, in southern Chile, withstanding the strong cold Patagonian winds that pierced through our parkas...

To walk down the streets of Old San Juan is to walk in Old World Europe. The narrow streets, the cobblestone, the 16th-century forts all belie the fact that this is the New World and one of the busiest...