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Kenya: the greatest wildlife real-estate on Earth
[words & images © Mark Eveleigh] Kenya has been called ‘the greatest wildlife real-estate on Earth’ and for the sheer density of its wildlife, it probably has no competition anywhere in the world....
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BERLIAN INN, POPPIES 1, KUTA, BALI – price at the time of writing from US$15 a double (B&B) No website – Call +62 0361751501 I’d been through the same scenario so many times. I’d been scouring...
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Cape Town’s Culinary Culture
[Article first published in Aspire – Etihad Airlines business-class inflight] At first glance, South Africa doesn’t exactly leap to mind as one of the world’s great culinary civilizations. This was a...
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Less a hammock. More a way of life.
After two decades working as a travel writer I’ve learned never to leave home without a hammock. I’ve slept in my hammock on cargo boats and yachts and in more jungle camps and desert camps (strung...
View ArticleWhere to practise yoga –– anywhere in the world
[words Narina Exelby / photograph © Mark Eveleigh] There are some things in this roaming life that I wouldn’t change for the world. That beautiful sense of freedom that comes with not knowing for sure...
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Mapped: what travel adapter to pack
[words Narina Exelby / map © Easysmart] Mark and I have this silly joke between us: I call him Mr Adaptable because almost half his kitbag is filled with adapters. Seriously. At last count he had...
View ArticleKeep calm and don’t carry-on
I don’t get it, this travel-only-with-carry-on trend. Sure, it sounds like an easy way to travel – but the number of people I’ve watched (on every flight) struggle through an airport dragging a...
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Yoga for trash
Rubbish is a huge problem in so many places around the world, Bali included. I guess that’s the downside to being an island on a severely polluted planet: your coastline becomes the semi-permanent...
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Adeng Adeng – Bali’s first buffalo beach-taxi
The cikar runs along endless stretches of deserted beach that few imagine even exist these days in Bali. Adeng Adeng means “slowly slowly” in Balinese and it is a phrase that’s used a lot out here on...
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Keep Calm and…carry the right stuff.
Pittards Military Wet Pack has been a classic travel item for almost 100 years. A cold shower in a hot country is so much pleasanter than a hot shower in a cold country. For the last 18 years (since I...
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Is this the ultimate travel bag?
For years I’ve sat in airports and watched, fascinated, to see how people travel. It seems to come so naturally to some, while others – the ones who clutch onto tablets and books and phones and keys...
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Kenya: the greatest wildlife real-estate on Earth
[words & images © Mark Eveleigh] Kenya has been called ‘the greatest wildlife real-estate on Earth’ and for the sheer density of its wildlife, it probably has no competition anywhere in the world....
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How to be a trash-less travel hero
For the past few months there’s been a blog post brewing inside my head. It starts like this: “The more I travel, the more I realise two things. One: people are inherently good, and kind and...
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City sanctuaries in Bangkok
Bangkok: a city that’s crazy beautiful. It’s a storm of colours and lights and signs and sounds; a clashing of elegant temples and looming skyscrapers; a collision of Buddhist grace and flashy...
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Cape Town’s Culinary Culture
[Article first published in Aspire – Etihad Airlines business-class inflight] At first glance, South Africa doesn’t exactly leap to mind as one of the world’s great culinary civilizations. This was a...
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Less a hammock. More a way of life.
After two decades working as a travel writer I’ve learned never to leave home without a hammock. I’ve slept in my hammock on cargo boats and yachts and in more jungle camps and desert camps (strung...
View ArticleWhere to practise yoga –– anywhere in the world
[words Narina Exelby / photograph © Mark Eveleigh] There are some things in this roaming life that I wouldn’t change for the world. That beautiful sense of freedom that comes with not knowing for sure...
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Mapped: what travel adapter to pack
[words Narina Exelby / map © Easysmart] Mark and I have this silly joke between us: I call him Mr Adaptable because almost half his kitbag is filled with adapters. Seriously. At last count he had...
View ArticleKeep calm and don’t carry-on
I don’t get it, this travel-only-with-carry-on trend. Sure, it sounds like an easy way to travel – but the number of people I’ve watched (on every flight) struggle through an airport dragging a...
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Welcome home
I’ve been travelling the world for almost 30 years, and while I have always missed those I love, only now do I know what “homesick” really means. Our simple surf cottage in remote West Bali has become...
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