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Backpacking Through Africa 8: Matatu

Matatu is an African cross between a van, taxi, and city bus. It runs on a certain route, but the "conductor" jumps out all the w...
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The (well) hidden charms of Arusha 3

So we went out without backpacks, took taxis after 6pm and ignored and sent away anyone who tried to strike a conversation on the streets ...
Backpacking Through Africa 4 – Cairo

I met Mike in the afternoon as he rushed toward customs. He was also headed to Nairobi but decided to make the most of the eleven-hour layo...
Ethiopia 9 Hideousness Of The Plate

It seemed the moment to broach this delicate issue. But I was keen not to cause offence. I didn’t want to let on that it was the sheer hid...
Backpacking Through Africa 12 Bolsheviks

Mrs. Roche is a fascinating woman. She is Polish by birth, Janina Jurkowska. As a young girl, the Bolsheviks exiled her along with thousan...
Ethiopia 10 anti-slaving device

The plates are worn, rather like a veil in Islamic societies, in the presence of men. At home and in the company of other women, they tend...
Ethiopia 8 - Nothing Compares To the Lip Plate

They giggled behind their hands at our pale skin, our watery eyes, our bizarre clothing. In this barefoot, bare-assed and bare-breasted comp...
Namibia 4 A Continuous Cacophony

As I enter the gated grounds, the kids stop and sing the African national anthem for us, doing so in 4 languages. These children are hap...
Ethiopia 12 It Was Erotic, But Happily Innocent

On a low ridge, we arrived at the village with flocks of goats returning to their family corrals for the night. There was a dance at sunse...

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Philippines: Stairway To Heaven 14 Headhunting Expeditions - In many places, entire headhunting expeditions were organized, and in some places entire populations of smaller islands disappeared. Text & Photos: Jan...
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Americas

Backpacking Through South America 8 Thieves - These thefts are most common in big cities. We’d heard that sometimes travelers have their backpacks slashed on the street, and the thieves follow behin...
Africa

Backpacking Through Africa 24 – Veterinary Medicine - The revised version of their story went like this: They were poor veterinary students who had never attended high school but had fled the civil war ragi...
Europe

Austria – Slovenia 8 - I walked to the train station in Ljubljana and boarded the train. I thought I have 4 hours to sit, relax and enjoy the view. About an hour out of Ljublj...
Slovenia

Kurentovanje Ptuj, Slovenia - But Ptuj is worth visiting at almost any time of year. One of the many excellent museums in Ptuj Castle gives an excellent overview of the Kurent tradit...
Asia

TRANSPORT IN NEPAL 4 - The tourist buses are generally in good condition (depending which you book - Greenline are best), and often stop twice on the way to their destination,...