At Home Abroad

Posts tagged with travel

1. 21 Questions with Globetrotting Travel Photographer Michael Runkel

   The German native has traveled to every country on Earth and shows no signs of slowing down. We discuss going to outer space, the coronavirus outbreak, what makes a good travel photo, and why long-term travel with kids doesn’t suck. Michael Runkel at the North Pole (Photo: Michael Runkel) Where…

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2. That Time I Went Back in Time…

   I stepped off the twelve-seat prop plane and onto the tarmac in Wamena, West Papua, without a plan. Burdened with only my bag, camera, and no small amount of disquiet, I had arrived at one of the world’s few remaining primitive frontiers. Inspired by a worn-ragged copy of Carl Hoffman’s …

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3. Siargao: Tourism Exemplar or Coal Mine Canary?

   Siargao Island (pronounced “shar-gow”) has received a fair amount of tourist attention in recent years, particularly the town of General Luna.  In 2008, then-president Gloria Arroyo initiated the Super Regions Program, aimed at increasing economic activity through infrastructure improvements and tourism development. A longer runway was built at the Siargao…

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4. Editor’s Pick: El Nido, Palawan

   With gin-clear waters and staggeringly tall limestone rock formations that lord over the ceramic sand beaches of the northern tip of Palawan Island, El Nido is the Philippines’ glittering jewel of the South China Sea. Rivaling its western neighbors Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, and the Phi Phi Islands of…

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5. A Monument to…Delusion?

   Just west of Mandalay, and across the Irrawaddy River, sits this collapsing colossus - an ambitious incomplete stupa constructed by King Bodawpaya in the 18th century. And KB, it seemed, liked to go big. Really big. For it’s construction, the King requisitioned thousands of prisoners and slaves acquired from the…

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