Philippa Whishaw
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Brought to you from the smoky markets, carts and cantinas of Mexico, here are our favourite street-side snacks.
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What it’s like visiting a women’s-only beauty salon in Iran
by Philippa Whishaw March 6, 2019The air is thick with hairspray and nail lacquer fumes, and Farsi pop pounds from the stereo. This is life inside an Iranian beauty salon.
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Everything you need to know about Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni
by Philippa Whishaw January 23, 2018Unless you’re an astronaut (if you are – can we be friends?), most of us will never walk on the moon. But on the Bolivian Altiplano, you can get pretty close.
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Listen to the Swahili song that will get your tired legs up Mount Kilimanjaro
by Philippa Whishaw April 27, 2017Intrepid mountain guide Samuel has climbed Kilimanjaro over 500 times. So when his travellers are struggling to the summit, he’s got a few tricks up his sleeve to help encourage them along. Singing this traditional Kili trekking song is one of them.
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Indonesia: 4 surprising experiences that aren’t in Bali – and one that is
by Philippa Whishaw April 11, 2017A holiday to Indonesia doesn’t have to mean Bintangs and sunburn.
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How a local group is fighting poverty in Kenya, one pig at a time
by Philippa Whishaw March 24, 2017It’s our first day in Nairobi, and we’re on our way to market to buy some fat pigs. Except this time, we won’t be going home again and doing a jig.
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From the windy lookout point, Ngorongoro Crater isn’t quite what I expected. Under the gloomy sky the crater floor looks bleached and barren, smeared with mineral lakes and mapped with the shadows of clouds…
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To help you plot the course of these extraordinary upcoming adventures, the New York Times have just released a carefully curated list of 52 places to go in 2017. And what do you know – we offer trips to almost every country mentioned.
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It’s official: Indigenous Australians are the oldest civilisation on earth
by Philippa Whishaw September 20, 201672,000 years of history mapped in the human genome? Thanks for being awesome, science.