Laos in pictures
Laos 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 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.
Read moreThe world’s biggest bagpipe festival is not in Scotland but in an obscure, post-industrial town in the Czech Republic.
Read moreAnyone who tries to tell you death is no laughing matter clearly hasn’t been to Romania’s Merry Cemetery.
Read moreThe 500th anniversary of the death of one of history’s most original — and macabre — artists deserves a parade. But an ordinary parade just won’t do.
Read moreA Soviet time warp and unrecognised breakaway state, Transnistria is one of the strangest places in Europe.
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