For travellers, there is no such thing as “good value” in Australia. The place is just too expensive. You never walk out of a bakery…
Up in the wilderness of south-western Tasmania is a white mountain, a gleaming hunk of quartzite shaped like a shark’s tooth, high above an ocean…
The first time I was mugged, it took me a while to realise there was a knife at my neck. Blissfully unaware of the guy…
It’s late afternoon on the Oaxacan coast, when the day’s heat fades just enough for the lazy breeze to push it away. I’m pedalling my…
Get There: Off the state highway between Ixmiquilpan and Metztitlan, Hidalgo. Buses will take you there from Ixmiquilpan. Cost: 120MXN entrance fee Bring: As much…
Get There: Off Highway 85, 15 kilometres west of Aquismon, San Luis Potosi Cost: 30MXN entrance fee, 40MXN per person to camp overnight Bring: Sure…
Get There: Down a dirt road about half an hour’s walk north of Xilitla, San Luis Potosi. There aren’t many signs, but the locals know…
Travel abroad with a pack on your back or a bicycle under your bum and you’re going get used to The Interview mighty quickly. You…
The first thing I noticed was the air. After six weeks of Baja California’s dust and lip-cracking wind, the air in Mazatlán, a coastal city…
Picture the scene, if you will, as we roll into the city of La Paz. For several weeks we’d been riding through increasingly flat, featureless…
The sun is setting over the Pacific and lights are appearing in windows of the buildings that peer over the fence. Headlights stream down a…
I see the flash of furry legs on the bitumen a split second before Pablo cries “Tarantula!” and the three of us skid to a…
