Training run in Samoa. Image Cam Cope Photography camcope.com
A blank look and extended silence is all I got when I told my Mum I was going to run a Half Marathon. The Solar Eclipse Half Marathon in Port Douglas no less. She didn’t get it. And quite probably thought it was just one more half-baked idea from a middle child who’s m [...]
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Run a Half Marathon in Port Douglas: ...
Training run in Samoa. Image Cam Cope Photography camcope.com
A blank look and extended silence is all I got when I told my Mum I was going to run a Half Marathon. The Solar Eclipse Half Marathon in Port Douglas no less. She didn’t get it. And quite probably thought it was just one more half-baked idea from a middle child who’s m [...]
Image Gallery: Hiking with Polar Bear...
Fiona Harper travel writer/photographer joined Churchill Wild’s Arctic Safari to hike the tundra with polar bears at a time when they’re in a sort of walking hibernation, waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze over.
Polar bear and Seal River Lodge
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Chasing the Dalai Lama
Most of India swelters in July-August, but there’s no better time to make tracks for India’s ‘Little Tibet’. The Dalai Lama thought so, too.
Flying over Nun and Kun in the Hindu Kush, en route to Ladakh
The fabled land of Ladakh, a geographic and cultural outlier of Tibet, fits somewhat uneasily within the State of Jammu & Kashmir. [...]
Burma regains a place in the sun
Burma is the latest destination to be (re)discovered by the western world, basking in the warmth of a new-found approval by the PC brigade.
Young woman, Burma
The last time reporter Zoe Daniel from the Australian current affairs program Foreign Correspondent visited Aung San Suu Kyi, she had to sneak into the country under the guise of a tour [...]
The Spatial Sense and Sensibility of ...
Architectural travel and playfulness
At The Westin Resort & Spa in Cancun, you are never entirely sure whether you are inside or outside; and this is the fundamental enigma and challenge that award-winning Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta has not only conceptualized but internalized in this very human-friendly space.
It is a place in [...]
Trekking the northern NSW coast
The Yuraygir Coastal Walk is a 32km easy trek, best tackled over around four days, between Coffs Harbour and Yamba. With strong connections to indigenous traditional lands, and home to the rare and endangered coastal emu, the trail runs through Yuraygir National Park.
Formerly widespread in north-eastern New South Wales, coastal emus are now [...]
Is it safe to go to Egypt?
Honest, officer, I’m a big boy now. I can do it all by myself… but the Tourist Police officer seemed less certain, as he walked me to the public toilet in Cairo’s bustling Khan el-Khalili quarter and positioned himself outside the cubicle.
Khan el Khalili quarter, Cairo
Foreign governments urge us to ‘reconsider your need’ to visit E [...]
On the Zen Road Again
If you are a person of a certain age, you will probably remember Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; and you may also remember the surprising effect the book had on the general culture of travel in North America.
Published in 1974, the book became a literary and cultural icon as the author took those of us who were he [...]
