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.
This started out as an average day on safari in Kenya (as if any day on safari in Kenya could...
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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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Sometimes a trip comes your way that is just irresistible. For those who love and study history, religion and cultures,...
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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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Water can create or destroy with equal efficiently. Our own Southwest is awash with examples, the most impressive being the...
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I have always been fascinated by the flow of human history and how ideas, knowledge and inventions move around the...
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I gaze over this beautiful view from my perch on top of a rock in the Flinders Ranges some 280...
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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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When I was college age, my younger self could set out on the road without much worry about missed planes,...
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Mt Kilimanjaro. The name conjures up images of the Dark Continent, of stories by W. Somerset Maugham and Hemingway, and...
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