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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Keep your seat

Date: May 11, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Man has been utilizing the spring for some 40,000 years in the form of the bow and arrow. When a...

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Stomp and salt

Date: May 4, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

In Japan, figurines of sumo wrestlers have been unearthed dating back to between the third and seventh centuries, and the...

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Supporting Protection of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity

Date: April 27, 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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Earth Day with Aunty Marg

Date: April 20, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Would it surprise you to learn that Sydney, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, is also home...

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Bake at 360 degrees

Date: April 13, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

What do a great soccer player and a master chef have in common? Not that long ago they were relative...

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Princely Tales

Date: April 6, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

“What is a land without its people?” Sidharth Rohet, from the House of Rohet, grew up among the dunes of...

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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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