November 2024 - To the Taj Mahal by Rail

Celebrating Pakistan

Pakistan is a busy place. The streets are thick with traffic and hum with activity, the train stations are positively

At 8126m, Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat ‘only’ places at number 9 in the world’s highest mountains (pah, I mean seriously…?!). With

‘Slow travel’ might have become a bit of a buzzword phrase recently, but it has real meaning and value behind

Crossing land borders has always been one of travel’s joys for me. They’re so much more meaningful than crossing some

As travellers, rather than tourists, perhaps, we pride ourselves on scratching beneath the surface and tickling the underbelly of the

With a 2.40am departure, I wasn’t much looking forward to the Tehran to Isfahan leg, but the effort was more

Travelling through Iran these past few days has been like no other experience, like no other country I have visited.

“Nothing is expected of the train passenger. In planes the traveller is condemned to hours in a tight seat; ships

I’m going to have to look into precisely what ‘Geopark protected status’ entails (please do message below if you can