If you’re planning a trip to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, there’s a destination you should definitely add to your radar: the sun-yellow town of Izamal.
Philippa Whishaw
Philippa Whishaw
I like travelling, writing words and taking pictures. Lucky for me, these things go together rather nicely. I dig sticky weather, abandoned buildings, visiting planetariums and getting from A to B in the most interesting way possible (husky sled, old yellow school bus, rollerblading etc). While I think the phrase “getting under the skin of a place” is kind of gross, I’m totally on board with the idea behind it. One time I spent a week in an apple orchard with an artist who restores old gypsy caravans for a living. I was in charge of riding his donkey, but it was so stubborn it made me cry.
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Brought to you from the smoky markets, carts and cantinas of Mexico, here are our favourite street-side snacks.
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Unless you’re an astronaut (if you are – can we be friends?), most of us will never walk on the moon. But on the Bolivian Altiplano, you can get pretty …
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Intrepid mountain guide Samuel has climbed Kilimanjaro over 500 times. So when his travellers are struggling to the summit, he’s got a few tricks up his sleeve to help encourage …
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It’s our first day in Nairobi, and we’re on our way to market to buy some fat pigs. Except this time, we won’t be going home again and doing a …
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From the windy lookout point, Ngorongoro Crater isn’t quite what I expected. Under the gloomy sky the crater floor looks bleached and barren, smeared with mineral lakes and mapped with …