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I discovered that Santiago's perfect grid layout, designed in the eighteenth century, makes navigation effortless in a way most South American cities…
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I've finally reached South America after a year in Asia and eighteen months in Australia, and I'm attempting the absurd feat of…
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I went to Laos to attend a wedding, but found myself confronting the country's complex history as the most heavily bombed nation…
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I watched fifty nations' warships converge on Sydney Harbour for a centennial celebration of naval power, discovering that the advanced geometry of…
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I discovered that Melaka's layered colonial history—Portuguese, Dutch, and British—is written in its architecture, its streets, and even its barbecue sauce. One…
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I arrived in Singapore expecting efficiency and restraint, but what struck me was how extraordinarily beautiful and magnificent the city had become—a…
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After 577 days of travelling from China through Southeast Asia and Australia, I arrived in Zurich to discover a city where medieval…
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I returned to Kuala Lumpur as a tour guide armed with the confidence of someone who had spent three weeks there six…
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I landed in Sydney after ten months of nearly constant travel through Asia, and I was no longer the person who had…
ReadThe Cameron Highlands were discovered for the British colonial administration in 1885 by William Cameron, a government surveyor who was
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