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Walking the Annapurna Circuit, Slowly
Eighteen days, one pair of boots, and the growing suspicion that the point was never the pass at all.
Annapurna, NepalTravelled 3 min read
Travel stories, slowly told
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Cities
One Night at Angkor, Five in Vietnam
Two countries and six nights: temples before the light, a Hoi An that rained, and a beach with a fishing fleet on it and almost nobody else.
Cambodia and VietnamTravelled 4 min read
Water
Pune to Gokarna by Road, With a Night in the Jungle
Seven days, four of us and one car: a night on the Kali river, four on Gokarna's beaches, and the best fish of the trip on the way home.
Pune to Gokarna, IndiaTravelled 5 min read
Wild
Iceland's Ring Road by Camper, Hot Spring to Hot Spring
Thirteen nights, three of us, one camper van, and a route planned entirely around where you can next get warm.
Ring Road, IcelandTravelled 6 min read
Wild
The Atacama Sky Is a Different Sky
On stargazing in the driest desert on earth, and why your eyes need forty minutes before they are honest.
San Pedro de Atacama, ChileTravelled 2 min read
Water
The Kerala Backwaters, By Canoe Instead
Skip the houseboat. A dugout canoe gets into the narrow channels where the actual village life happens.
Alleppey, IndiaTravelled 2 min read
Wild
How to Plan a Faroe Islands Trip Around Weather You Cannot Predict
Four seasons in an afternoon, eighteen islands, and a scheduling strategy built entirely on flexibility.
Faroe IslandsTravelled 3 min read
Food
Oaxaca Market Mornings
How to eat your way through Mercado 20 de Noviembre without ordering the same thing four times.
Oaxaca, MexicoTravelled 2 min read
Trails
Hut to Hut in the Dolomites, With No Tent
Six days across the Alta Via 1 carrying nine kilos, because someone else is cooking dinner.
Dolomites, ItalyTravelled 3 min read
Cities
Kyoto Without the Crowds Is Just a Question of Hours
The temples are not overrun. They are overrun between ten and four. Here is the other Kyoto.
Kyoto, JapanTravelled 2 min read