Travel Intelligence isn’t just about hotels, hotels, hotels; it’s also packed with some of the finest travel writing on the web. To see a selection of top-class travel writing about lakes & rivers, have a look through the articles listed below...
Articles in Lakes & Rivers
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Lake of Stars: Exploring Malawi in Style
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Leo Bear
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Malawi
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Lake Malawi
"Arriving at Lilongwe airport, the first thing I see is a man selling T-shirts that read ‘Adopt Me’. Madonna’s clearly made her mark here..."
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A Guide to Estonian Bogs
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Catherine Cooper
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Estonia
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Tallinn Region
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Tallinn
"Tallinn is usually what comes to mind when people think of Estonia, but with 50% of the country’s surface covered by forests and nearly a quarter of its land (22.3%) by swampland, I thought it might be an interesting place to go walking."
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Slovenian Dumps: A Trip to Lake Bohinj
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Ben Mallalieu
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Slovenia
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Ljubljana Region
"Lake Bohinj is an odd choice for a dump, not least because it both beautiful and unspoilt. The water is very deep and still, and the lake is surrounded by fir and alder forests..."
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Made In Milwaukee: A Mooch Around Wisconsin's Largest City
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Mary Novakovich
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United States
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Wisconsin
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Milwaukee
"I met the Fonz once, back in 1988. Nice chap that Henry Winkler. Quite short, very affable, a bit nervous because he was about to premiere the first feature film he had directed. Years later, I was standing beside his newly commemorated statue in..."
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A Walking Tour in Costa Rica
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Mary Novakovich
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Costa Rica
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Pacific Coast
"It was hard to avoid a slight sense of panic in the arrivals lounge at San Jose airport. Scores of taxi touts swarmed round us, making it difficult to find our guide who was to look after us during our walking holiday. I know it’s a typical scene in..."
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On the Banks of the Kowie River: South Africa's Eastern Cape
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Rosanne Turner
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South Africa
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Eastern Cape
"“At last you're here” the sign on the wall said as we pulled into the parking lot of My Pond Hotel. Well that about summed it up. Eight hours in a car with young children can leave you rather frazzled, and in need of some R..."
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Secret Treasure of the Incas: Wildlife in Peru
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Rebecca Ford
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Machu Picchu
"In my dreams I’d been to the Amazon. It was a steamy world of luxuriant foliage, beady-eyed monkeys, jewel-bright birds and improbably large insects: a place where anything could happen – and frequently did. I had such high expectations that I..."
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Igazu Waterfall
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Argentina
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Iguazu and the Northeast
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Iguazu
"Oh come now. What’s the fuss about really? It’s only water. Doing what water does when it meets 80m drops. Falling down in a furious foment. Big deal. Can it really be worth the effort of going there just to see that? Really?"
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Top Ten Houseboating Spots in Australia
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Daniel Scott
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Australia
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Queensland
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Fraser Island
"There is nothing like a houseboating trip for getting away from it all. Even if civilisation is just around the corner, cruising Australia’s beautiful waterways brings with it a delicious sense of seclusion and relaxation. The only difficult..."
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Rafting Tasmania's Franklin River
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Andrew Bain
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Australia
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Tasmania
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Launceston
"If rivers are a metaphor for life, Tasmania’s pristine Franklin River is breath itself."