The road from Chiang Mai to Pai is a dangerous one- breathtaking, yet deadly. It painstakingly crosses the mountains of Northern Thailand and is a disconcertingly scenic collection of parcours, deadly bends and loose tarmac that will unnerve even the most reckless of...
Forget about the Blue Lagoon- head to the North of Iceland and immerse yourself in the geothermal waters of The Myvatn Nature Baths instead. It’s over 450 kilometres from Reykjavik but the water is just as warm, there’s more minerals and the...
In April 2015 The Free Republic of Liberland declared itself the world’s newest state. The independent micronation was proclaimed on unclaimed territory between Croatia and Serbia by idealistic Libertarians from the Czech Republic, on a patch of derelict land...
The Kerið Crater is just one of the many volcanic attractions to be found in Iceland. In a land of ice and fire, a land at the mercy of volcanic activity, this distinct volcano is set apart by the striking lake that has formed in the crater. I was visiting...
The door is pulled shut as the last of us enter the room. It is dark for a few seconds as the locks are closed and before the dim lights come on. On the wall a timer starts the countdown. We are locked in and have one hour to make our escape. I’m in...
Goðafoss translates literally from Icelandic as The Waterfall of the Gods. It’s a spectacular waterfall, famed for its beauty rather than its power, and its a place that has long had a prominent position in the history of Iceland. Goðafoss is in the far North of...
Hon Chong is a sleepy little fishing village on the south coast of Vietnam. Jutting out into the warm waters of the Gulf of Thailand, its rocky karsts and stony outcrops have led it to be known as ‘The Halong Bay of the South’, but its seclusion and...
The Dimmuborgir lava fields are a place of myth and legend in Iceland. They are the realm of trolls, elves and the supernatural, a dark place where geological forces have spectacularly left their mark on both the natural world and the human imagination. These...
The Tad Fane waterfall plummets over 120 meters from the cliff side into the jungle canopy. This is the tallest waterfall in Laos, its twin streams of water hurtling over the abyss and into the trees below. The plunge pool was out of sight, the cliffs themselves...
In 1973 a United States Navy plane crash landed on a beach in Southern Iceland. The wreckage was abandoned where it fell and the debris of the aircraft on the black sand is now an eerily dramatic sight. The plane came down on a stretch of beach known in...
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