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- Type: Article
- Author: Brendan Sainsbury
- Category: PhotoPro
Brendan Sainsbury discusses the challenges and pleasures of his career as a guidebook writer for Lonely Planet. Writing guidebooks is often seen as a glamorous profession, an archetypal dream job that livens up dull dinner party conversations and sends...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge Staff
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
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- Type: Article
- Author: Cari Mason
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Perceived to be an accessible climb, summiting Africa's highest peak is still no walk in the park, and most climbing parties rely on porters. Insisting that they are treated fairly is part of the deal. At an altitude of 4750 metres, the wind—which was...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Steven Johnson
- Category: Why we travel
Activist Bill McKibben says climate change is the most important issue of our time. And he's leading a tech-savvy movement to demand serious change from our governments. Bill McKibben may be the second best-known environmental activist in the United...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Trevor Lush
- Category: PhotoPro
What makes a good image? Pro photographer Trevor Lush offers some simple rules of thumb for composing your shot (but feel free to break them!). Finally, you’re here! You’ve been navigating an exotic city’s streets for the last few hours, map in hand;...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Fantastic architecture, crazy festivals, spectacular landscapes. Here are a few of our favourite regional highlights. But don't just take our word for it—stay for a while and find some of your own. It may, at first, seem strange that Spaniards often...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Colin Moore
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Long-standing Spanish tradition or nothing more than animal cruelty? Colin Moore checks out a bullfight in Madrid for a taste of the debate. When it bursts into the arena, you can feel your breath suck in. Even from a distance there’s no getting around...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Sam Mednick
- Category: Study Abroad
Anyone can learn to dance flamenco. It just depends on how easily you can put aside your pride. And how badly you want it. “Bailar con el coño,” laughs 33-year-old flamenco veteran, Marta Allue. “That’s the trick to dancing.” Translated directly, the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Work Abroad
A love for travel isn't all it takes to be a tour leader. Four professional guides offer you their expert advice on the ups and downs of the business, and how you can break into it. Have you ever dreamed about spending your days outdoors, hiking and...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Trevor Lush
- Category: PhotoPro
Taking your camera on the road is easy. But bringing it back safe and undamaged can be a challenge. Photo pro Trevor Lush shares some top tips. The view from the ground below must have been quite a scene to behold. A baggage handler is completing the...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Colin Wiseman
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
Colin Wiseman goes to Ecuador looking for political enlightenment—but finds that teaching kids to paint may be as much as he can handle in one trip. It was hot in the open air school house. Muggy and hot. In the corner, the third grade teacher dozed...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Why we travel
A pipeline to bring water to Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians might encourage more than just a scientific partnership. When it comes to politics, the Israeli government and the Palestinian authority don’t agree on much. But they do see eye to eye...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gourgy
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
An experienced hustler in Cuba's capital gets more than she bargained for. I didn’t recognize Yule right away when she emerged from a bathroom stall of an exclusive Italian restaurant on the Prado, a street popular with tourists in central Havana....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Trevor Lush
- Category: PhotoPro
Pro photographer Trevor Lush says that capturing those unanticipated moments produces some of his favourite images. I enjoy storytelling— and photography enables me to tell stories. The majority of my time is spent producing images for stock...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Elena Sosa Lerín
- Category: Work Abroad
Where to start if you want to gain experience in international health... Canadian Federation of Medical Students www.cfms.org The Clinical Exchange Programme gives students the chance to complete clinical electives abroad for a period of one month....
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jeff Minthorn
- Category: Volunteer Abroad
Don't just take our word for it. Verge interviewed some key execs to get their take on gap years. The bottom line? Go for it. Amidst all the thinking about it, waffling, planning and convincing yourself and others that taking a gap year is a good idea,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Jill Arcaro Gordon
- Category: Work Abroad
Living, working or studying overseas not only involves the day to day effort of doing your job or keeping up with your school work, but also requires you to adapt to the culture that you've planted yourself in. The question is: Are you that type? After...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Clare Byrne
- Category: Work Abroad
Young Canadian volunteers with Médicins Sans Frontières talk about braving some of the world's worst conflict zones to deliver help where it's desperately needed. MSF nurse Sharon Janzen is this year’s keynote speaker at the Vancouver Go Global Expo,...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Verge
- Category: Beyond the Guidebook
A nation in the remaking—again. The Caribbean nation of Haiti, which shares the island of Hispanolia with the Dominican Republic, faced a tumultuous and violent situation in 2004 when government supporters squared off against rebels who were determined...
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- Type: Article
- Author: Richard Desrochers
- Category: Travel Health
How to keep your guts from visiting the circus during your travels. "It was inevitable," my friend Sean tells me, in an email from Peshawar, Pakistan. He fully admits that he tends to be a little careless about what he drinks and eats while travelling,...
