By Eleven or 12 years ago, on a date in mid-April, a boat landed at Si Phan Don in southern Laos. Travelling folk can easily picture the scene: the setting sun, the gurgling river, boats put-putting in the distance and so on. A minor hubbub as goods and passengers alighted from
Cat City: Kuching’s Feline Fixation
For visitors to Kuching wandering about the city’s fixation with all things cat, they’ll be pleased to know the clue’s in the name. Indeed, after a few days spent exploring this vibrantly multicultural centre of Borneo, with its feline museum, pussy statues and ever-present moggy graffiti, they’ll be hard-pushed to
By Sitting pretty on top of Erg Chebbi
Our correspondent begins his trek in the Sahara with a moment of quiet contemplation atop the dunes of Erg Chebbi.
