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Best Camping Sites in Dubai
Things To Do In Pattaya
Best places to visit in Muscat
Top Things To Do In Bangkok
The Perfect Getaway To Thailand
Oman - The Sultanate
Adventures in the UAE’s Garden City - Al Ain
Al Ain - The Garden City
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Kenya - A Wonder to Wildnerness
Kenya Seeking the Extraordinary: Kenya as Home
Read as we go through the journey of Nidhi seeking Kenya as a home. The skies were overcast, the wind was slowly picking up speed and the rising dust was making it harder to see. I had just gotten bac
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First-person dispatches. Long enough to tell the whole thing, short enough to read in one sitting.
Seeking the Extraordinary: Kenya as Home
Read as we go through the journey of Nidhi seeking Kenya as a home. The skies were overcast, the wind was slowly picking up speed and the ri
Viking Couchsurfer - Story of the man who's hosted over 500 people in his house
Couchsurfing stands to be the ultimate way to travel cheaply and start new friendships around the world. Despite living in a globalised, hea
Around The World On A Vespa - Markus André Mayer
Unique travellers are taking the world by storm, with innovative ways of scouring the world, in attempts to cut down on their carbon footpri
Learning to live in the wildernerness with Miriam Lancewood
Edited and Written by Natalia Nazeem based on conversation with Miriam Lancewood during her visit at the Emirates Literature Festival in Dub
Around the world on two wheels - Fredrika Ek's solo bike journey
The year has begun on an unstable note, with natural disasters or geopolitical tensions skyrocketing, placing millions of people in tenuous
Thor is challenging convention visiting every country in the world by land
Torbjørn C. Pedersen is on a journey to address environmental concerns, showing round-the-world trips are possible without boarding an airpl
Travel With a Twist - Story of The Game Show Where Next
For most, the idea of traveling or going on a trip involves a) a long plane journey and b) a far-off, exotic land. However, travels don’t ha
"Why I left" - The story of a Midwest American who explored the unsafe world
Hi! I’m Nate, and I’m from one of those forgotten states in the middle of America. It’s cozy here in Ohio. Nothing moves too fast, but it do
How Shosho Chang is Bridging the Cultural Gap by Cycling the World
Shosho Chang, a YouTuber, traveller, photographer, a storyteller is cycling around continents, leaving some well-paid jobs to explore the wo
Cycling from Europe to Asia for differently-abled children - Nón lá Project
Here's a couple who decided to cycle from Europe to Asia, 16,000km to raise funds for differently-abled children, supporting the NGO "Poussi
Tom Fremantle, the man walking around the world for a cause
Meet Tom Fremantle, an author, and adventurer from England, who, now in his early 50s, decided he wanted to walk around the world. Tom has n
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Meet the writers
Trift stories come from people who actually went. Here are a few of them.
Ryan Shirley
Photographer and long-form writer. Based out of wherever the last flight landed.
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Paridhi Joshi
Writes about food, people, and the spaces where the two meet. Former restaurant critic.
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Finding Alexx
Has lived in 14 countries and has opinions about the bread in all of them.
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Steve Yalo
Road-trip specialist. Prefers gravel. Has an unhealthy attachment to his 1998 truck.
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