BY BRIENNA CARTER On the way to the train station, Abdulkhamid told me he failed his English test. We’d spent the last couple days preparing for it, and he’d been nailing the new vocabulary about gift-giving and bag-packing. He could tell you what he’s going to buy his wife for their anniversary (jewelry), and he…
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Wander.Take the paths you never took,Let them lead you somewhere new.Give them a chanceTo show what feels right.Drift from the path,But never stand still.The journey will make senseAs long as you keep going.Nothing can stop youFrom following your heart.You are a miracleYearning to be free.Take flight into the skiesFor you are the wind. Issue Eleven is…
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BY JOSEF BUERGI Mongolia, a land of vast steppes and rugged beauty, is home to a unique way of life centered around the winter migration of nomadic herders. As temperatures plummet, these resilient people lead their livestock across the frozen landscape in search of fresh grazing grounds. Battling fierce snowstorms and bitter cold, the herders…
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BY KATHRYN HATCHETT We cross the final river of our trek. Not that you could call it a river yet. The winding ribbon carving out a valley for itself is a couple of feet wide and would be shallow enough to walk through on foot without boots. It trickles towards the coast, a riverbed mosaic…
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MIKI 曾在《LOST》第十期中分享過她在斯里蘭卡旅行時發生的一段浪漫故事——「三天」。在故事裡，她獨自踏上旅程，卻意外愛上一位當地的陌生人，並從中收穫了許多美好卻短暫的經歷。六年之後，無論是面對旅行還是情感，她的視角都已發生了巨大的轉變。我們特別與她進行了一次訪談，聊聊她對旅行的看法，以及這些年身為女性旅行者的成長。
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BY MIGUEL NEVES I could see the red and yellow foliage in the distance as the landscape moved in synchronicity with the clanking of the train wheels on the track, making the mountains of Yamagata seem even more entrancing as they slowly passed the window giving way to more and more thickets of warm autumn…
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BY MATT WHELAN “Where y’all guys from?” asks the guard with a viscous Southern twang.“Canada,” we reply from the cool confines of the car.“I knew it! I just knew it!” he says through white teeth that gleam in the desert sun.“Right on!” We say, “how so?!”“Oh, I talk to a lot of Canadians! Y’all so…
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What is it like to travel for 4 months across seven countries all by yourself? When life in Singapore began to feel repetitive, Jennifer Hong decided to set off on a journey to break away from routine life. She chose a destination that was 6,276 km away—Kazakhstan—and decided to travel there by land without taking…
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BY AARON GILBREATH On my family’s first overseas vacation, our seven-year-old daughter Vivian encountered Costa Rica’s enormous iguanas, cute howler monkeys, and iconic colorful birds, but the giant red-winged grasshopper stole her heart. Urbanites like us often struggle to love insects, especially ones with five-inch bodies and red eyes, but Vivian’s affection for Tropidacris cristata…
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BY HOLGER HOFFMANN & SYLVIA FURRER It does not take long to get used to the relaxed lifestyle of the Hoti and Penare. No one works more than two hours a day. Much is done playfully, such as fishing. The Hoti and Penare are two Indian tribes that live on a tributary of the Orinoco…
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