The Daily Telegraph are re-running classic travel stories from their archives. Here’s one I wrote about going down the Zambezi river in dug-out canoes with Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Britain’s greatest and arguably most eccentric explorer Last week we began a new series drawing on the deep and rich store of travel writing in the Telegraph…
Dramatic news from the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Lale Labuko, who has been working for years to end the practice of ritual infanticide among the tribes there, has scored a major triumph. In a ceremony in Dus village, the elders of the Kara and Benna tribes announced that the killing of babies and children…
This spacious, restful Koh Samui villa could easily sleep five or six people. I’m sharing it with one big lizard. He was prowling the walls when I arrived, a Tokay gecko about 18in long with a bluish-green body and red spots. The more time we spend together here, the more impressed I am by his…
Rainy season in Koh Samui for the Telegraph. This is what I call great weather: monsoons blowing in, rain squalls and storm light, then sunshine. I have been marvelling at electrical cables, attending water buffalo fights, and taking philosophy lessons from an eighteen inch long Tokay gecko who lives in the rafters of this villa.…