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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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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300 million steps makes a lifetime

Date: January 19, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

In the world of the zebra, where any misstep could be the last, hoofing it across Africa in search of...

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Look where we’ve been and where we’re going

Date: January 12, 2017 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Looking back over the last year, it was both challenging and exciting. We all saw our share of tragedies and...

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Season of celebration and sometimes silliness

Date: December 13, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Family households threw dice to determine who would become the temporary (much like Ashish) monarch during the festival of Saturnalia,...

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No, that can’t be right…

Date: December 8, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

A mother kicking her baby… But in the world of giraffes it’s true. A giraffe gives birth standing up and the...

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