Paparoa Track: NZ’s newest Great Walk
A practical guide to Aotearoa’s 10th Great Walk and the tragic story behind it.
Read moreA practical guide to Aotearoa’s 10th Great Walk and the tragic story behind it.
Read moreThe 70km Queen Charlotte Track offers fabulous views — and plenty of options for walking in comfort — where land meets sea in the Marlborough Sounds.
Read moreA global pandemic, iwi-led Covid checkpoints, Waitangi Day festivities, politics, record-breaking rainfall, floods and fires — 2020 had it all.
Read moreAn ancient land sprinkled with 1000-year-old stone churches, Armenia is sliding back to war with its neighbour Azerbaijan over a disputed territory.
Read moreLaos doesn’t have the big tourism drawcards of its better-known neighbours — but that’s all the more reason to visit this slow-paced, smile-filled land.
Read moreUnspoiled mountain villages where time stands still and mind-boggling environmental devastation left by the oil industry — you’ll find both in exotic, welcoming Azerbaijan.
Read moreIt has everything you’d ever want in a medieval castle. There’s only one problem: It’s in the middle of a giant steel mill.
Read moreStraddling cultural and geographic boundaries between Europe and Asia, Georgia is one of the most fascinating — and scenically diverse — countries on Earth.
Read moreImages of the dizzyingly diverse former Yugoslav republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia.
Read moreUnspoiled beaches, decrepit ferries, spontaneous schoolkids and a slow-paced way of life in one of the world’s last absolute monarchies.
Read moreThe Cares Trail clings to the side of a 1.5km-deep gorge in the Picos de Europa mountains of northern Spain.
Read moreA wonder of modern architecture, a spectacular mountain range, one of Europe’s deepest canyons, and the charming city that gave port wine – and a country – its name.
Read moreFormer US President George W Bush called it part of “the Axis of Evil”. I call it one of the most fascinating and welcoming places I’ve been.
Read moreA snow-bound palace, a ruined city, welcoming locals, a shipwreck and a fabled mountain — those are just a few of the things I photographed in Turkey in 2004.
Read moreIn 1995 I spent three unforgettable weeks in Syria. Now, after almost 10 years of civil war, many of the places I visited are no more.
Read moreThe author encounters takahē, kleptomaniac weka and naked trampers on New Zealand’s longest Great Walk.
Read moreIt’s Australia’s shameful secret: A human trade in which tens of thousands of Pacific Islanders were kidnapped as labour for Queensland’s sugar plantations. Their descendants’ calls for an apology have so far fallen on deaf ears.
Read moreFor once picking my favourite photo of the year was easy.
Read moreWhat drives more than 1000 people a year to walk the length of New Zealand? I decided to find out.
Read moreLong before dating apps Romanian villagers would bring their daughters to a remote mountaintop in the hope of finding love.
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