The Stunning Gorges Of Karijini National Park In Western Australia Karijini National Park. A semi arid desert. A dry, red and dusty national park in the North West of Australia. Hundreds of miles inland, miles from the nearest towns and even further from any cities,...
Wave Rock, Western Australia. Is It A Wave? Or Is It A Rock? The car was lifting up huge plumes of red dust which trailed behind us as we drove along the unwavering straight, gravel road that stretched for hundreds of kilometres into the Western Australian interior,...
24 Hours From Aktau, Kazakhstan To Kungrad, Uzbekistan I awoke in the sweltering summer heat of Kazakhstan. The Kazakh summer is dry and dusty and the fierce Central Asian sun is relentless, even in the early morning. The old motel room I was staying in was stale with...
Tashkent is the heart of Uzbekistan If you’re one of the few travellers who make it to this isolated and rarely visited Central Asian nation- if you make it past the post-Soviet bureaucracy, if you come to terms with the strange black market currency system and...
Tashkent Is a City Like No Other In Uzbekistan It’s a huge sprawl, densely packed with drab Soviet buildings and ugly apartment blocks. Tashkent is a city that lost its history when an earthquake levelled Uzbekistan’s capital, a city that was rebuilt from...
Travel Tramp’s Top Things To Do In Tbilisi! Don’t leave home without Travel Tramp’s guide to the Top Thing’s To Do In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia! From copious quantities of wine and heart attack inducing food, to cascading waterfalls...
The Sheep Had Completely Blocked the Road To Lahic. There was no way around them. On one side were steep, jagged cliffs that terrifyingly looked as if they would come violently crashing down upon us at any moment and on the other side was a precipitous drop which...
‘For Lust Of Knowing What Should Not Be Known, We Take The Golden Road To Samarkand’- James Elroy Flecker. The Silk Road city of Samarkand has long lured travellers and conquerors in search of wealth and the exotic in Central Asia. In 1913 British poet...
“This is not the best time to be here”, said the official at the Ministry of Foreign affairs, “but thank you for visiting my country”. I had travelled to Nagorno-Karabakh, a country which doesn’t technically exist. It’s a small, breakaway territory between...
Bukhara, the beautiful Silk Road City with a dark history. Bukhara is majestic. It’s beautiful. Sand stone buildings, tall minarets and vast mosques greet the traveller who arrives in what is one of Uzbekistan’s, and Central Asia’s finest...
Along the Borders chronicles my multi-year journey along Britain's borders, boundaries and frontiers. Published by Penguin Random House, and available now!
