Resting on the seabed off of Amed’s volcanic, black sand beaches is the Japanese Shipwreck. This is one of Bali’s greatest snorkelling spots, where the ruins of a rusting sunken vessel have become a rich coral garden swamped with sea life. I took a dip...
“Care! Radiation!” The sign warned that I was entering the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. There was no turning back now. My documents were checked, and the armed guards waved us across the security line, straight into the fallout area. The Chernobyl disaster...
Amed is a long way from the nightclubs and surfer beaches of Kuta. In the far north of the island of Bali, this ramshackle collection of villages lies on dark, black sand beaches, and underwater, the seabed is littered with the haunting remains of shipwrecks. I dived...
In Bali, a theme park which never opened its doors is hidden in the jungle near to the beaches of Sanur. I went to explore the derelict rides and abandoned ruins of Taman Festival, fearing that rumours of cannibalistic crocodiles and bat infested...
Amongst the lively and crowded streets of central Belgrade, it’s easy to forget that this was once a city at war. The city has moved on since the 1999 NATO bombing campaign hit Serbia, but the ruins of the conflict have been left heaped along the roadsides,...
“Be careful”, said Miran. “Don’t step off the path”. The crazy Bosnian had led us right into the middle of a minefield. “If you go to the right there’s a fifty percent chance of death, and if you do down there to the left,...
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