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As soon as I arrived in the centre of the old university town of Alcalá de Henares, my heart skipped a beat, my knees went wobbly and I felt like fainting (with desire). I was surrounded by policemen. Spanish policemen.

The most amazing stillness I have experienced was in the Alatau mountains near Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan.

From the modern resorts of Cancún and Playa del Carmen, the mysteries of the Maya, the entrance to the underworld and the city that sparked the Mexican Revolution are in close proximity, yet centuries apart

Experience the Grand Canyon from top to bottom, one step at a time.

The swirling chocolate waters of Borneo’s Kinabatangan River are flanked by rainforest so dense that it is easy to forget the destruction wrought upon the country’s fragile ecosystem by the palm oil industry.

They say to me, "Should you know yourself you would know all men." And I say, "Only when I seek all men shall I know myself." – Gibran Khalil Gibran

There was nothing ahead except sand and sea on this notorious stretch of coastline dubbed ‘Doodsakker’ or ‘Acre of the Dead’ that is known to claim at least five vehicles per year.

Punjab, India, after 10 nights of sleeping in third class trains.

The frigid wind whipped my hair across my cheek. The fleece-lined hood of my jacket kept flying off in the wind, freezing my scalp in the process. I hugged myself to keep warm, but the below zero temperatures were...

Green. Deep, strong and stretching into every horizon. The grandeur of the pine-covered hills is interrupted intermittently by a secluded community of log cabins, or an icy-black body of water usually fenced by rugged crags.