Travel Writing Library

I have avoided writing about this for a few reasons. First is that I didn’t want my family to panic, and when you read about what I went through, you will understand why. Second, I wasn’t sure what the Vietnamese...

We land in Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia and begin to make our way through the busy transfer lounge. I notice that the Ethiopian women and strikingly beautiful, as if they were created by clever distribution of...

I met Zarina on what was supposed to be my last day in Pakistan. The Karakoram highway by then had brought me lots of challenges, heaps of laughter and quite a few interesting acquaintances. "Where are you from?"

In the afternoon storm, the dust had turned into mud. Even the station's hawkers were quiet, sheltering from the rain with their badly made necklaces, buckets of homemade sweets and imitation sunglasses.

My father loves to travel. He is not a patient man. I quickly discovered that is not always a pleasant combination.

“Are you sure this is the right place?” “Positive, gal. Now get out and save some bats.” Our Aboriginal driver, George, gave his deep boom of laughter, a now familiar sound after the long journey north from Cairns...

Russia was burning, and northern Ukraine was blanketed in smog. As the day crept on and the temperature exceeded 40 degrees we drove further from Kiev on roads that seemed topped with treacle.

There are two roads between Karijini National Park and Millstream National Park, Western Australia - one is sealed and takes about six hours. The other is unsealed, corrugated and takes about half the time...

The jumbo-jet engines whirl down as you make your way down the tarmac and as if in some movie, the sound is cut and all you are left with is the visuals of a foreign land that you studied through the pamphlet of the...

Inside the hospital, the narrow, dimly lit hallway is packed with the young, the old, the tired. I sniff my way in by the scent of starch and antiseptic. There are no official rules in a public Romanian hospital...