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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Supporting Cultural Heritage

Date: March 30, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Each day, more than three million tourists cross international borders, and every year more than one billion people travel abroad....

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Where are trains buried?

Date: March 23, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Why, in a train cemetery, of course. It is a strange and almost eerie sight – rivets, old train wheels...

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Who’s freezing?

Date: March 16, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Oh wait, you might be. Sorry. Storms are pummeling the US and Canada this week. Records seem to be falling...

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Rumor has it

Date: March 9, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

It has been whispered for years that the mummified body of an extraterrestrial was found in Egypt in a burial...

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196 feet up

Date: March 2, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

What is roughly the same height as Cinderella’s Castle and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, surrounded by hundreds of birds,...

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Supporting environmentally friendly practices

Date: February 23, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Each day, more than three million tourists cross international borders, and every year more than one billion people travel abroad....

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Tuk tuk along

Date: February 16, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Time honored and ubiquitous in much of the world, the three-wheeled ‘auto rickshaw’, aka tuk tuk, is the modern incarnation...

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glamping: verb ˈɡlæmpɪŋ /: glamourous camping

Date: February 9, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

While the word glamping only appeared for the first time in the United Kingdom about a decade ago, the concept...

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Supporting the Economic Wellbeing of Local People

Date: February 2, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Each day, more than three million tourists cross international borders, and every year more than one billion people travel abroad. ...

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Dr Jones next adventure

Date: January 26, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Indiana Jones is expected to return to the big screen in a couple of years. While we do not know...

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