Decountrified

In our lives we are on a constant journey of self-reflection, often unwitting pilgrims on the path to personal discovery. It is on a...

There’s electricity running through my veins, a power pulsing through my body. I am furiously and intensely alive. I toss my backpack...

Shortly before the pandemic hit, I had the pleasure of spending a week and a half in Colombia. It was my third trip to Latin America,...

It’s been quite a while since I’ve written – over a year, in fact. And it has been quite the eventful year. Let me start from the...

After spending a little down time in Nice, I soon got the travel bug again, and after two quick weeks of R&R with my parents in southern...

“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.” -Alphonse de Lamartine The year of travel has come to an...

The following is an account of our experiences in Georgia and Armenia. After about seven months in the Indian subcontinent and southeast...

On our latest adventure, we bought motorbikes in Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon) in south Vietnam, and rode them all the way up the coast...

Apologies to those who have been asking my whereabouts, as I haven't posted in a long while. In the past few months, we have left...

I am clutching the breaks of the motorbike, nervously trying to get it started, trying not to panic. Cars fly past us, whipping past...

​Cheap food, cheaper beer, few tourists, forgotten temples in the middle of the jungle, and world-class historical sites: a travel...

During the trek in Nepal we were introduced to many terms and concepts, some familiar; others less so. If you are like me, maybe you were...

As a little side project, I wanted to put together a quick video to give readers a glimpse of daily backpacker life thus far. I'm hoping...

After a three-week trek through the Himalayas, I find myself back in a Kathmandu hostel. Although I was still in the mountains just...

We spent two more nights in Rishikesh before catching a 24-hour sleeper train to Varanasi - India's holiest city, and one of the world's...

After our tour of the central state of Rajasthan (Taj Mahal-Jaipur-Jodhpur-Udaipur), we went up to north India to spend some time in...

In the past several months, I took the decision to take time off and travel the world for a year. When I informed my family and friends...

“It was in Cihangir that I first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one...

Ara Güler is Turkey’s most renowned photographer, and indeed, one of its most celebrated artists. The son of an Armenian pharmacist, he...

Four years away from the city of my dreams, and I find myself once again in the heart of Istanbul. My companions are a group of...

My most recent trip took me hundreds of miles from my current home in Java to the eastern isles of Flores, Komodo, and Padar, in a...

We recently had the chance to spend two weeks in Sri Lanka. Known long ago as Serendib, more recently as Ceylon, and colloquially as the pea

YOGYAKARTA - I first meet Heru with a six-foot snake wrapped around his neck. “You get used to it,” he assures me. “I was scared at first to

This week marks the beginning of my fifth month in Indonesia, right at the halfway mark of my time in the Archipelago. It’s been an incredib