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With the mist hanging over the ship like a cold, grey curtain, we crept forward slowly in the pale light.

Cockfighting In The Philippines: John M. Edwards attends a horrific, but breathtaking, “cockfight” on Bantayan Island in the Philippines, only to end up wondering what exactly were the ingredients in the national dish of adobo.

Looking to get away from the bright lights and intrusive noises of the city, my girlfriend and I made a plan to visit the Booderee National park to camp, surf, drink and relax for a weekend of solitudue.

It was year 2007. My husband and I were looking forward to a special holiday on Petit St. Vincent in the Caribbean. It was this island`s unusual atmosphere that first attracted me, the fact that the villas do not lock...

What I pictured all of Fiji to be like when I found out I was going: 1.Warm, Pacific waters, sparkling and glittering with every ray of sun, 2.White sand beaches, as soft as silk and comfortably hot underneath my toes...

We fluttered down hidden steps, crawled under fallen trees and side stepped razor grass. We reached a swamp with thick grey water that settled at our thighs and filled our boots; it was a maze of hanging vines and reeds...

“Sir, Madam, please, jump in, you’ll bump around, smell and hear everything going on and if you have questions Vijay, your driver has driven rickshaws for 20 years” was our guide Sanjay’s parting shot on commencing...

Before I visited Kyoto, I had read countless articles saying the same thing: True geisha are notoriously difficult to spot.

For the first weeks I was in Kenya, my father was with me. We’d gone on safari at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro and bought jewelry in the market.

One of the few joys of being back from holiday is reliving through photos. At my PC, I'm looking at my hour spent with three rescued orang-utans of the Rasa Ria rehabilitation sanctuary on Sabah, Borneo.