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 adventure, have a look through the articles listed below...
Articles in Adventure
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Back to Basics: Family Holidays in the Transkei
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Rosanne Turner
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South Africa
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Eastern Cape
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Transkei
"The Wild Coast, as the Transkei is also known, makes for an ideal family holiday. If you quiver at the thought of kids in the car for an extended period of time, don't be put off as most of the hotels offer fly-in packages, with pick-up at the East..."
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A Roadtrip to Big Sur in California
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Leo Bear
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United States
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California
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Big Sur
"‘Here at Big Sur, at a certain time of the year and a certain time of the day only, a pale blue-green hue pervades the distant hills; it is an old, nostalgic hue, it is a mystical phenomenon, or so I like to think, born of a certain way of looking..."
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The Best Luxury Hotels for Families
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Leo Bear
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United Kingdom
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Yorkshire
"Whether it’s singing around a campfire in Jordan’s Wadi Rum or swimming with sea cows in southern Thailand, you’ll find something to thrill all the clan in this essential guide to autumn family travel..."
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A Safari in Namibia
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Mark Davidson
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Namibia
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Namib Desert Region
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Kanchipuram
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William Dalrymple
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India
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Tamil Nadu
"They were a family of Brahmins from Hyderabad- or Cyberabad as they liked to call it- and they were all computer programmers. They talked proudly of the booming high-tech industry which had sprung up in their city..."
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Mirador, Guatemala: Lost City of the Maya
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Jini Reddy
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Guatemala
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Central America
"I am standing in the centre of Tikal’s Great Plaza and the heat from its monumental temples is washing over me in waves..."
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Travelling the Orient on ‘Velvet Rails’
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Mark Eveleigh
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Thailand
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Bangkok Region
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Bangkok
"I hurried, hot, sweating and bedraggled away from the clamouring taxi rank outside Bangkok's Hualamphong Station and stumbled towards a row of distinctive green and cream carriages on platform 3..."
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Caledonian Challenge: West Highland Way
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Jeremy Seal
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United Kingdom
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Scottish Highlands
"The Highland dawn began to show somewhere beyond Bridge of Orchy – some 60,000 footsteps in, some 40,000 more to go - backlighting 1074-metre Ben Dorian in vermilion. At least, I think it was vermilion...
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Bulgaria Fly-Drive: A Driving Tour through Bulgaria
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Jeremy Seal
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Bulgaria
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other areas of Bulgaria
"The sign in the car park bids me ‘Lucky Drive’ as I leave Rila Monastery. I’m only a few hours into my Bulgarian fly-drive break, but I’ve already seen enough of the country’s roads to take the message seriously...
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Twenty Four Hour Opening: A Guide to the Norwegian Fells
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Alf Alderson
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Norway
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The Fjords
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Voss
"I first visited Voss as a student many decades ago, en route to Norway’s highest peak Galdhøpiggen, and swore to return to this lakeside town once day since unlike Galdhøpiggen it offered bars and restaurants in which to enjoy some R..."