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Travel writing — destinations, journeys, immersive place essays
Most people who come to the end of the world stop at Torres del Paine. A few keep going — into the channels, into the rain, into a landscape so extreme the Chilean Navy still considers parts uncharted.
Three thousand years ago, caravans loaded with Dhofari frankincense left for Egypt, Rome, and Jerusalem. The Boswellia sacra trees are still here. So is the smoke.
Since 1990, the ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi has been built from scratch each winter by artists from around the world — and melted back into the Torne River each spring.
Ani was once home to 100,000 people — larger than London at its peak. Today it sits on the Turkish-Armenian border, its cathedral apses and caravanserai walls standing in the wind.
São Miguel and Faial have quietly become Europe’s most coveted secret — geothermal pools, boutique quintas, and a silence that registers as a physical sensation.
The cone-shaped stone roofs of the Valle d’Itria were built without mortar to be dismantled quickly. The families who built them are still here — and some have decided to let strangers sleep inside.
At 3,656 meters above sea level, the Salar de Uyuni erases the horizon. Palacio de Sal and the hotels that followed it offer something no other address on earth does.
The Wakhan Corridor is legally accessible via Tajikistan on the Tajik side. Almost no one applies for the GBAO permit. Here’s what the process and the journey actually involve.
Eight thousand years before Burgundy, someone in a Caucasus valley buried a clay vessel and filled it with grapes. Georgian qvevri winemaking survived Soviet erasure and is now the world’s most fashionable discovery.
Piktura Studija in Vilnius runs intensive relief printmaking workshops in Lithuanian. The instructor speaks almost no English. The work speaks for itself regardless.