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Arunachal Pradesh | Andrew Mueller

Entry to this state is only possible with a Special Areas Permit which costs US$150 per person per night you stay in Arunachal Pradesh, and all visitors must travel in groups of at least four

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Belgrade | Andrew Mueller

People we’ve never met before invite us to attend their birthday dinners, and beautiful waitresses with terrible teeth ask us to parties as we sip our morning espressos

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Chernobyl: The World's Hottest Holiday Destination | Andrew Mueller

A dosimeter is a grey, rectangular device about the size of an early-90s mobile phone. On its LCD screen, numbers flicker.

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Georgia | Andrew Mueller

Until we get into the city centre, Gori looks pretty much like everywhere else in Georgia, which is to say that Gori looks like somebody just dropped it

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I'm the Turban Spaceman, Baby - an extract from 'Rock & Hard Places' | Andrew Mueller | Afghanistan, Kabul, Kabul

The Afghan customs officer is friendlier than his appearance, which isn't difficult, and asks about the purpose of my visit. I mumble some obsequious platitudes...

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Palestine | Andrew Mueller

To get to the birthplace of the Prince of Peace, I have to negotiate a military checkpoint

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Peshawar | Andrew Mueller | Pakistan, North West Frontier, Peshawar

Peshawar has spent its history as a combination of market, safe haven, staging post and recruiting centre for centuries of merchants, soldiers, mercenaries, refugees, journalists, diplomats, spies,

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Thai Boxing | Andrew Mueller | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

As a shrine to a national sporting heritage, Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium is an initially unprepossessing venue. Secreted amid a neighbourhood as noisy, chaotic, crowded and filthy as pretty much every other neighbourhood in Bangkok, the tin-roofed concrete building looks, from the teeming street outside, like a run-down high-school gymnasium and, once through the doors, like a vast uninhabited chicken battery.

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Tupelo | Andrew Mueller | United States, Mississippi, Tupelo

Tupelo has one natural advantage in the tourism department, though the town makes astonishingly little use of it. Whether out of abashed deference to the Presleyian riches of Memphis

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