Our Stories

Travel is essentially about storytelling, about sharing what we discover of our global home.  This blog is about just that — the unusual, the unique, the gems  — from Tombée du Ciel, House Fallen from the Sky, to the ghost trees of India, to the Bolivian cemetery where trains are buried. There are countless stories, large and very small, that we come across as we travel the globe. It would be a shame to pass them by without notice.

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OUR STORIES

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Foods from home

Date: November 21, 2019 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Ashish just returned from a trip to his first home… Kenya, where he was born. He was in Nairobi with...

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How to help the inevitable eleventh-hour travelers

Date: November 14, 2019 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

We all have stories of friends, family, clients – and even ourselves – who need last-minute trip arrangements or those...

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Goosebumps

Date: November 7, 2019 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

This started out as an average day on safari in Kenya (as if any day on safari in Kenya could...

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Did you hear the one about…?

Date: October 31, 2019 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Probably not. That’s how our premiere White Glove Service® guest assistance works. You never see them but they are always...

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Across time and place

Date: October 16, 2019 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Sometimes a trip comes your way that is just irresistible. For those who love and study history, religion and cultures,...

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First Date

Date: | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Enough about me. What about you? This almost feels like a first date… And, we’re excited. We created a website...

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The wonder of water

Date: October 11, 2019 | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Water can create or destroy with equal efficiently. Our own Southwest is awash with examples, the most impressive being the...

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On the other side of the Bay of Bengal

Date: | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

I have always been fascinated by the flow of human history and how ideas, knowledge and inventions move around the...

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The value of Y and the view from here

Date: | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

I gaze over this beautiful view from my perch on top of a rock in the Flinders Ranges some 280...

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Big Five uses AI to advance Sustainable Tourism Impact

Date: | By: Deborah Kilcollins | Travel Blog

Taking the next step in travel innovation, Big Five Tours and Expeditions has launched GIB 5.0, an Artificial Intelligence proprietary...

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