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A Dip into Kyoto’s Floating World | Isabella Tree | Japan, Kansai, Kyoto
Her face was chalk white – the image of every Japanese tourist poster; her hair lacquered into glossy black wings, transfixed with ornaments like some exotic cocktail...
A Place of Peace in a Warrior Goddess's Kingdom | Isabella Tree
Durga, a Hindu warrior goddess, remains as relevant to Rajasthan, a state in India with a violent history, as ever. But this low-key tent camp built on a dam wall offers a sweet refuge
A Whole View of Africa from the Loo | Isabella Tree | Kenya, Coastal Kenya, Tana Delta
As mad as it may seem to build an entire resort atop a 100ft sand dune, that lunacy fits right in with the lunacy of its surroundings
Café life in Krakow | Isabella Tree | Poland, Krakow, Krakow
The enduring legacy of Krakow’s extraordinary capacity for survival, its tradition of stoical underground resistance and socio-political camaraderie, is a burgeoning café culture of steamy windows and smoke-filled cellars. This is a city where people still talk for hours; where the din of conversation rises exuberantly above the sound of musak and the rustle of newspapers.
Cowboy Kids: Ski-School in Jackson Hole | Isabella Tree | United States, Wyoming, Jackson Hole
It’s precisely this wild west, no-holds-barred, live-or-die frontier attitude that resonates so perfectly with children
In the Trobriand Islands the annual yam festival is more than just ordinary. Nick burst out laughing when I told him I was heading for the Trobriand Islands. 'I hope you know how to bite off a man’s eyebrows,' he said.
In the Land of Raja | Isabella Tree | Sri Lanka, Cultural Triangle, Dambulla
With a curious interest in Sri Lanka’s elephant fascination, Isabella Tree begins to understand the respect paid to them, and really fathom why
Islands in the Clouds | Isabella Tree | Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Indonesia
Isabella Tree recounts her arrival amongst the Highlanders of Irian Jaya - a people whose culture is fast disappearing - with her Papua New Guinean friend, Akunai
Kathmandu – Valley of the Gods | Isabella Tree
There are more gods than people here, so the saying goes, with Buddhas and bodhisattvas, tantric gods and mother goddesses at every turn.
Kathmandu: Shiva's Night Out | Isabella Tree | Nepal, Kathmandu, Kathmandu
Smoking hashish is an obligatory function of the sadhu, or holy man - part of his ‘darshan’, his divine gift of communication with god; and for the three days of Shivaratri the Nepalese authorities who usually subscribe to the school of ‘zero tolerance’, turn a blind eye to all the bleary shenanigans going on down at the ancient golden temple of Pashupatinath.
Skull Drums and Thigh Bone Trumpets | Isabella Tree | Nepal, Kathmandu, Kathmandu
This almost jocund familiarity with death is one of the first challenges a westerner faces when encountering Tibetan Buddhism. “Your thigh-bones would make marvellous trumpets”, he’d exclaimed, “Would you like to leave them to our monastery?”
Sliced Iguana: Travels in Mexico (extract) | Isabella Tree
In Juchitan, a thriving market town on the Pacific Coast, Isabella Tree samples a traditional Zapotec 'cleansing' at the hands of one of the town's powerful matriarchs
Souks and the Single Girl | Isabella Tree | Morocco, Marrakech, Marrakech
The hammam was not how I imagined. I had pictured something bustling and sociable, a traditional courtyard thronged with women in towels like a scene from Steaming
Strolling through Cuba's Greatest Gardens | Isabella Tree
The gardens Christopher Columbus saved for the Queen, a large uninhabited archipelago, may seem empty at first, but one only need to look deeper to find what he must have seen
The Imperial Herbal Restaurant | Isabella Tree | Singapore, Singapore, Singapore City
The Imperial Herbal Restaurant in Singapore is definitely not the place to go on a first date. Before you’ve had time to shake out your napkin or sink an aperitif
Varanasi, City of Light | Isabella Tree | India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi
It's a contradiction that's not easy for the first time visitor to swallow: that one of the most patently polluted places on earth is a place where people come to be purified