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 disaster travel, have a look through the articles listed below...
Articles in Disaster Travel
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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."
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Breathe: A Windswept Night in Orkney
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Mike Sowden
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United Kingdom
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Shetland & Orkney
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Orkney
""The constituency of Orkney shears off the northeast tip of Scotland in a scatter of windblown islands, and true to its appearance, visiting Orkney requires a certain stoicism...""
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Floored by a Carpet Salesman
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Susan Storm
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Morocco
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Marrakech Region
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Marrakech
"I'm completely lost down a dank dung-strewn alley, staggering under the deadweight of a carpet. I'd like to abandon it somewhere, except that it was made by a virgin Berber girl, deep in the Sahara, whose fingers bled in the process. And I"
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Samnaun
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Vitali Vitaliev
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Austria
"As part of the research trip, which involved visiting all existing enclaves of Europe, my plan was to go across the Alps to the Austrian ski resort of Ischgl and the village of Samnaun, a Swiss semi-enclave in Austria"
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Trouble in Paradise
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Simon Heptinstall
"My travel experiences have included having my passport stolen at the point of a machine gun, crashing into a snow fox on a lonely snowy mountain road in the early hours and checking into a big spooky hotel to find that I was the only guest..."
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Bomb-Jumping in Belgrade
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James Wallman
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Montenegro
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Belgrade Region
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Belgrade
"After the war, realising the value of visitors once more, the Serbian Tourist Agency scrapped tourist visas. Their website announced this alongside an unfortunate description of Serbia – ‘where hospitality crackles in the air’"
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The Fatal Shore
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AA Gill
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Uzbekistan
"A disaster organised and and executed with the precipitate callousness, greed and sheer eye-bulging stupidity that only hands-on communism can muster"
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Bite the Rotten Shark
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Norman Miller
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Iceland
"Rotten shark hits first with a strange smoky fishiness. Then, as I chew, a blast of ammonial gas brings tears to my eyes, which hasty gulps of the Black Death only worsen..."
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Phuket Recovers from TV Tsunami
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John Borthwick
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Thailand
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Southern Thailand: The Andaman Coast
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Phuket
"The local and expat community in Phuket regard the subsequent economic damage from this mis-information as "the second tsunami.""
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Culture Crash
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Mark Jolly
"What happens when you can’t go home again? The near-fatal consequences of the globe-trekking life"