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.
Would it surprise you to learn that Sydney, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, is also home...
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What do a great soccer player and a master chef have in common? Not that long ago they were relative...
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“What is a land without its people?” Sidharth Rohet, from the House of Rohet, grew up among the dunes of...
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Each day, more than three million tourists cross international borders, and every year more than one billion people travel abroad....
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Why, in a train cemetery, of course. It is a strange and almost eerie sight – rivets, old train wheels...
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Oh wait, you might be. Sorry. Storms are pummeling the US and Canada this week. Records seem to be falling...
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It has been whispered for years that the mummified body of an extraterrestrial was found in Egypt in a burial...
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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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Each day, more than three million tourists cross international borders, and every year more than one billion people travel abroad....
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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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