Oliver Pelling

‘It feels like I’m not supposed to be here’: my first thought as the Galapagos Islands appeared through the aeroplane window.

Sometimes, things happen in life that make you completely lose your mind. For one Intrepid Travel fan, it was the trip of a lifetime that did it.

The end of 2014 is fast approaching, and with it the end of another year’s Intrepid Photo Competition.

When sailing in Europe, you have to slap yourself every once in a while to make sure you haven’t stumbled into a cliché.

Some travellers and filmmakers are already calling this “the best travel video ever made”, and there’s certainly no disputing its beauty.

Using a few simple techniques, this fine gentleman has blown minds the world over with his ability to pack a month’s worth of gear into a carry-on suitcase.

A food adventure in Burma: the best thing you could possibly do in 2015.

Believe it or not, the old world does survive, in the deep jungles and the high mountains, kept alive in the ancient knowledge of tribes.

Shakespeare once said, ‘The sauce to meat is ceremony; meeting were bare without it.’ Basically this translates to, ‘Festivals, they’re pretty cool, eh?’ And those Elizabethans really knew how to party, so I’m inclined to agree with his opinion. Ceremonies and festivals are the cultural glue that binds us as people.