Travel Writing Library

I was travelling solo through the Middle East, and all my family and friends were worried about my travels to Syria. Living in Canada they had all read about Syria as ‘the axis of evil’ – a place of horrors.

“Um... Where are we?” I wondered out loud. We'd been walking up and down a little side street for a while, utterly lost. After arriving at the Gare de l'Est train station in Paris, we had taken the Metro to...

We were coming into land on a bumpy approach, the wings gliding through the turbulent air. Glancing out of the window I saw nothing but darkness and sand; thousands of tiny grains bouncing over the leading edges of...

My husband and I have come to Mozambique in search of the rare, almost extinct dugong but what we found was so much more fulfilling and exciting that the dugong search has become just one more thing to do...

‘And where’s that?’ was the most frequently encountered response to my saying I was to travel to Gabon. Over months of studying ill-drawn and out-dated maps I had narrowed the answer to the geographically...

I’m on a volunteering stint in Vientiane, and today I found myself on the crumbling campus of the National University of Laos. I was waiting outside for my boss when a middle-aged man stepped off of the road and...

The Steward gently shook me, requesting I turn off my electronic device for landing. I slowly gained consciousness and massaged the kink in my neck.

We don't need the caffeine on offer at Don Pedro's; adrenaline is already running high, like the Penas Blancas river itself, swollen after days of rain and littered with broken branches some of which...

Pilgrims cradling heavy baskets followed the steep trail up to a grassy knoll for the annual Drak Yerpa Festival. Red robed monks chanted a puja while extended families pitched tents embroidered by hand with sacred...

Couldn't sleep on Thursday morning. Went to Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur at about 5 a.m. Left Rupert and Paddy in the hotel. The limestone is said to be 400 million, yes 400 million, years old.