The ‘sea women’ of South Korea
In an unexpected gender twist, the elderly females on this island uphold one of the country’s most fascinating and enduring traditions. BBC's Travel Show brings...
Sleeping – while ice cracks below
The most disturbing part of walking over Lake Khövsgöl in northern Mongolia wasn’t the sound of cracking ice. It was the thuds. The thuds meant...
Borneo’s tribe of eco-warriors
The rainforest was taking its toll. With humidity hovering around 100%, I was trying to keep up with our fleet-footed guide as I played...
An otherworldly underwater selfie
Congratulations to Neal Holmes, the winner of BBC Travel’s June photo competition! This month’s theme was epic travel selfies. Every month, a new winner will...
Photo contest: Finalists revealed
Photography Love 'em or hate 'em, June’s photo competition highlights one of travel's most controversial photo styles. Explore the finalists!
Timeless utopia at the world’s edge
There are only two places in the world that meet a record seven out of 10 in Unesco's World Heritage listing criteria. The first is...
The upside to lions in the backyard
A lion roared in the distance as the sun set over the plains near Kenya’s Nairobi National Park. Hearing the noise, Nickson Parmisa, assistant...
This is how you say goodbye
I needed a distraction, and, god help me if the majesty of Angkor Wat didn’t work. The bike I rented was white, or, at least,...
Where monks invite you to lunch
Mountains folded around Guinsa Temple like the petals of a lotus flower. Brightly painted buildings interrupted winter’s whites and greys. The sprawling complex was...
A bullet train to nowhere
We were driving down a dusty, uneven road that wound its way through a lush valley in an isolated corner of China’s Guangxi Province....
Marilyn Monroe’s hidden home
Hidden among thick trees and hilly farmland, looped with stone walls and studded with red barns, the Connecticut town of Roxbury is 75 miles...
‘Gorgeous and instantly addictive’
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A legendary Outback odyssey
The world presents would-be travellers with all kinds of great journeys: a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in Jerusalem; the trek Moroccan explorer Ibn...
Zagreb’s secret courtyards
“Shhh. Let’s try to keep quiet,” said my guide, Saša Šimpraga, as he pushed open the weighty wooden door of the Arnold, a late-19th-century...
Himalayan views, without the danger
“Ukaalo, oraalo,” said our guide, Naresh Gurung, describing the three-hour hike we’d just begun toward Three Mountain Lodge in central Nepal. He undulated his...
Japan’s mysterious samurai town
It was early morning in Kanazawa’s historical Higashi Chaya district, a row of old latticed teahouses in a town that’s convoluted in both its...