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I woke up early feeling rough. I had slept badly and it didn’t help that we had gone for cocktails and danced the night away in the only club for miles around.

It’s true that a single moment can change your life forever. What you don't expect, however, is for this moment to come when you get off a bus in a dusty village in Laos.

There’s nothing like kayaking down a lazy river, and South Carolina’s Salkahatchie is a true gem.

The Afghanistan/Iran frontier, 1973. Even at mid morning it was hot. We’d already wrestled with the Afghan border formalities and ahead lay the Iranian customs post.

Deep down in India’s tropical south lies nature’s gem in the form of a serene hill station known as Kodaikanal. We were on a long South India tour, Kodaikanal being our last stop in our itinerary.

Leaning forward, holding tightly to the roof beams, we poked our heads out of an 800-year-old stone tower in the country of Georgia. From our vantage point some 25 meters above the ground, we saw scores of other ancient...

Ireland is the most romantic place in the world. Its not Paris, “The City of Lights” or “The City of Love.” It’s not the sunny vineyards of southern Italy or the art of Rome, the waterways in Venice, the seaside in Greece...

A visit to Google Headquarters is more than a glorified playground

As a former student of Russian kept at bay by the Iron Curtain, I had for long harboured a desire to travel in Central Asia; and last year I managed it.

Claudia burst into our Kathmandu hotel room shouting above the shrieking chaos outside the open window, `This Rinpoche I go to, ja? This lama my München friends tell me I must see to receive the teachings!’