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BY BRIENNA CARTER Allegedly, people from all over Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan attend the Victory Day festivities in Borbash. I’m not sure how accurate this is, but I can confirm that there were at least a couple thousand people there. Just the day before, the only people on the streets were some kids and their farm…

BY MAX HUDGINS I thought the best thing that could prepare me for a trip to Africa was spending sixteen years of my life growing up in Panama. I was wrong. The best preparation for Africa is, in fact, the flight over. Sick, tired, and essentially traveling Panama for the last two weeks was my…

Riding to the furthest reaches of the Indian subcontinent, A. A. Kostas and Emma make a trip to Khonoma, the famed ‘green village’ of Nagaland. There, they discover a village committed to environmental protection, but also learn about its darker tragic history.

When Max Hudgins missed his stop in Trebinje and somehow ended up in Mostar, he saw a man in a Speedo make the 79-foot drop from the hump of Stari Most (or Old Bridge) into the cold Neretva. Then and there, he decided he would only leave town after he had made that jump.

“非以伪饰的话填满静默，非以虚无的途指路。”

Travelling as a couple is always a hard stress test on relationships. After almost 50 years of travelling together, Holger Hoffmann and Sylvia Furrer have developed a few survival strategies to maintain a healthy relationship while backpacking to remote areas as a couple.

When Bohawi left England to volunteer as a teacher in India, he discovered spirituality and adventure. Since then, he’s travelled almost continuously for fifteen years, so much that he felt a strong impulse to become a travel guide. He eventually founded his own tour company, The Portal, and Bali was to be the destination of their first adventure.

BY MARTA BOVIO It always comes like this, sneaking up on you and in a good mood, the overwhelming urge to be somewhere else: you’re working at your office desk and suddenly you realize you don’t want to be there. It’s a need that shakes you, opens your eyes; it’s a need that brings with…