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23 Nov, 2020, 11:41
Vomit on the tracks – the Tamil Nadu Express Colin Todhunter
Colin Todhunter needs to get from Delhi to Chennai and chooses to go by train. But any railway journey in India – let alone such a long one – is always an experience.
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26 Oct, 2020, 10:08
Vientiane, Laos: not what I imagined, but that’s Travel Paul Michelson
Paul Michelson visits the Southeast Asian country of Laos and finds it’s capital city challenges his preconceptions. Not least because there seems not a lot goes on. Apart from a mysterious set of gleaming golf clubs.
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5 Feb, 2020, 15:15
India to Afghanistan (almost) by 70’s Hippy Bus Donal Conlon
In the glory days of the overland trail Donal Conlon push-starts his way across Asia on a dodgy bus. Along the way they somehow heard that Elvis died, so probably 1977.
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29 Jan, 2020, 09:33
Yala National Park: more man than beast? Jude Perera
Jude Perera takes his family to see the wildlife in Yala, Sri Lanka’s prime game park. But though he finds a few animals he sees a lot more tourists. Yala is getting crowded.
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11 Jul, 2019, 12:42
In Bhutan’s Thunder Dragon’s Tigers Nest Will Ottley
Will Ottley ventures into the Himalaya’s ‘Secret Kingdom’, where happiness is a social aim and tradition is perfectly preserved.
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6 Jun, 2019, 16:41
A day in the life of a rural Indian school Sara McMurry
When Sara McMurry stops working she doesn’t retire. She goes off on a series of volunteering stints teaching children in rural India, In this extract she’s teaching in a village near Shiv in the deserts of Rajasthan.
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13 Apr, 2019, 20:47
At the end of a gun in Azerbaijan Ski Krieger
Sjue Krieger discovers the vital importance, in the Caucasus, of not being a CIA spy. As this brings the risk of sudden death.
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12 Dec, 2018, 17:37
Signs of colonialism fading in present-day Mumbai Lee Ruddin
Lee Ruddin finds history hangs heavy as he finds while he’s getting selfies against Bombay’s famous Gateway to India, everyone else chooses their background as the Taj. And that’s the Taj Hotel, not the wonder-of-the-world in Agra.
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9 Aug, 2018, 14:55
How to buy sapphires in a Sri Lankan street market Kim Rix
Experienced gemologist Kim Rix outlines what to look for in sapphires and how to safely buy them abroad. In her new book she’s already outlined what to look for. Now she tells you how to buy.
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22 Sep, 2017, 18:17
Only in Srinagar: a lake called ‘Nigel’ Bhupender Gupta
Ignoring the advice of friends, Bhupender Gupta visits the lakes of Kashmir, where he finds a warm welcome in a postcard-pretty land now starved of tourists.
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21 Sep, 2017, 21:30
Through sick and thin: haze and hope in Myanmar Cole Evanek
Digestive problems don’t stop Cole Evanek appreciating the sense of hope sweeping through one of the world’s least visited destinations, the country once called Burma.
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21 Aug, 2017, 22:14
Four days in the ‘Land of the Thunder Dragon’ Alex Jones
Bhutan, the tiny country half-crushed between China and India, is famed for it’s religious adherence and dedication to national happiness. Alex Jones has been there.
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25 Jul, 2017, 10:08
Sri Lanka’s better off the tourist trail Lee Ruddin
Lee Ruddin finds many of Sri Lanka’s famous highlights overrun with travellers and spoiled. The overlooked town of Matara is much more to his liking.
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