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Black Mountains - Canoeing the River Wye | Rupert Isaacson | United Kingdom, Wales, Brecon
Kayaking - the art of using one’s bum to balance a plastic egg cup that has a mind of its own, in turbulent, dangerous water. 'Roll those wrists as you paddle and you’ll keep a straight line,' the instructor had said
Bushmen of the Kalahari | Rupert Isaacson | Botswana, Kalahari, Matetsi Game Reserve
Tribal tourism is nothing new: from the Masai in Kenya to Thailand’s hill tribes, tourism is becoming increasingly central to indigenous economies. The bushmen of the Kalahari are offering something different
Cairngorms | Rupert Isaacson | United Kingdom, Scottish Highlands, Aviemore
We were skiing uphill, adhesive tape stuck to the bottom of our skis to stop us sliding backwards. This was telemark skiing: 'It’s a piece of piss,' Stef had said. 'You know downhill skiing. You’ll pick up telemarking nae bother.'
California | Rupert Isaacson | United States, California, Rubicon Springs
Few 4x4 drivers ever really discover their vehicle’s full potential, rather like people who only use computers for word processing, and never use the other 99 percent of its memory
Camel Trekking in Somerset | Rupert Isaacson | United Kingdom, South West England, Somerset
Why take a camel trek in Britain? Apart from the surreal aspect of it (as good a reason as any. let’s face it), camels do offer a very different perspective on a landscape
Colorado - To ski or not to ski | Rupert Isaacson | United States, Colorado, Aspen
How many of us have come in from a day of wet snow skiing in the Alps (or worse, a day of no-snow), day-dreaming about other places, other mountains, where the powder is always perfect, and the skies
Kalahari | Rupert Isaacson | Namibia, Skeleton Coast, Windhoek
It was winter in the Kalahari, the grasses yellowed by sun, the trees black and bare, the sky an unremitting, dazzling blue. The three Ju’/Hoansi Bushman hunters climbed down from the thorn tree
Letter From Mexico | Rupert Isaacson
All around the world, tropical dry forests are being cleared for ranching, timber and development. Now Mexico’s largest remaining slice of this fragile ecosystem has been slated by government
Liberia is one of those African countries the name of which, for most of us, is synonymous with violence and atrocity. Liberia’s civil war has now been over for more than two years
Sea kayaking with Killer Whales | Rupert Isaacson | United Kingdom, Western Isles, North Uist
It is common to come across porpoises and dolphins lying asleep on the surface of the water, drifting so close you could touch them. Schools of minke whales (pronounced 'minkey’), one of the smaller baleen whales
South India | Rupert Isaacson | India, Kerala, Kerala
The Munnuvans and Todas - two hill tribes of the Western Ghats - were considering opening their remote settlements to small numbers of trekkers in return for much-needed cash
Spring in the Hill Country | Rupert Isaacson | United States, Texas, Austin
Few people in Britain have ever heard of the Texas Hill Country, a beguiling corner of the USA where the Deep South meets the Southwest. A vast limestone uplift that rises west of the cities
Trekking in Coorg | Rupert Isaacson | India, Karnataka, Coorg
Coorg is unknown to most India-philes. It has yet, thank God, to be discovered by the backpacker circuit. For the moment, it is protected by the challenge of getting there
Wales | Rupert Isaacson | United Kingdom, Wales, Brecon
The Black Mountains rise abruptly from the lush woods and fields of central Wales, a long spine of steep-sided heather moorland criss-crossed by ancient drover’s tracks