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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Introducing Malawi…

Date: April 27, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Surprising, startling, amazing, magnificent… This is the general reaction when travelers come upon the Anglican Cathedral of St. Peter on...

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Ecuador on Earth Day 46

Date: April 21, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Friday, April 22nd, will mark the 46th year of what would prove to be the birth of an amazing social, political...

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400 times hotter than Tabasco

Date: April 14, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

The ghost pepper! In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was at the time the world’s hottest...

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How we love our chocolate!

Date: April 7, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Humans’ love affair with chocolate reaches far back into our history – possibly as far as 1500 BCE. For those...

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New Zealand’s Landscape is Perfect for Helicopters

Date: March 31, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Those who have experienced New Zealand will at once agree that it features some of the most extraordinary scenery to...

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250 Degrees of Separation

Date: March 17, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

250 °F… That is the maximum internal temperature needed to lift a giant, nylon hot air balloon off the ground. And,...

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Flamingo on the flats

Date: March 10, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Magical, stunning, other-worldly – all are apt descriptions of the Salar de Uyuni, Uyuni Salt Flats. This remarkable landscape is on the top...

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From primary to primary

Date: March 3, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Definition of primary: first in order of time or development; of first rank, importance or value. Say what you will,...

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Oscar of the Amazon

Date: February 25, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

This Oscar may not win an Academy Award this weekend, but he is no less a star…. at least in...

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Roving Constellations

Date: February 18, 2016 | By: bigfive | Travel Blog

Ever since we began to evolve, humans have looked to the stars for wisdom, guidance, spirituality and more. We have...

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