Yearly Archives: 2021 It’s an incredible landscape. Red, flat, and empty as far as the eye can see, except for two remarkable – and remarkably different – ancient rock formations: Uluru, the 348 m (1,142 ft) high sandstone monolith, and Kata Tjuta, the 36 domes of conglomerated sand, pebbles, and cobbles. This is a living, culturally-rich topography, home […]  The crush of humanity heading to and from the Ganges through the streets of Haridwar seems unimaginable now. Haridwar, in Uttarakhand in North India, flanks the holy River Ganges as it flows south and east out of the Western Himalaya. The city has a population of just over 310,000 (2011), but when I was there […]  Singapore Zoo ranks consistently (after San Diego Zoo) as one of the best in the world. I’ve talked before about some of the concerns around keeping animals in captivity (see: A Tale of Two Tarongas), but when it comes to transparently ethical practices, the Wild Reserves Singapore group -four animal parks of which the Singapore […]  The only travel I can do at the moment is vicariously: with our government giving us no clue as to when borders might open again, it is impossible to plan and it is hard to even dream … I am trying to use this down-time productively: cleaning out boxes and drawers and cupboards. But, I’m […]  Papua New Guinea is a remote and rugged country that was untouched by foreign influences for a very long time. Its jungle-clad mountains and wild river valleys are home to one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse populations in the world. For a long time, outsiders thought the Highlands region was unpopulated, and international […] |
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