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It was a trip to Mumbai; the financial capital of India. The year was 2008 and Mumbai had just been struck by terrorists who had ripped out the heart and soul of the city.

The beast scuttles across the roof of the cave with unearthly, silent speed. Like a minion of Hades, it darts and lurches, doing whatever it can to evade the splash of my flashlight as I try to trace its progress above my head.

I remember arriving into the capital city, Dhaka, for the first time and would return there many times over the next two years, having taken a job as a flight attendant for a Middle Eastern airline.

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...