Inspiring Travel Writing from Isabella Tree: Page 3 of 3
Articles by Isabella Tree: Page 3 of 3
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Café life in Krakow
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Isabella Tree
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Poland
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Krakow Region
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Krakow
Winter and spring were still battling it out in Krakow. An icy wind whipped across the bridges and occasionally a flurry of snow harried you down the street, snapping at your heels. But there were signs to show the cavalry was on its way. Daffodils...
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Kathmandu: Shiva's Night Out
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Isabella Tree
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
The Khadeshwar Baba had been standing on one leg for six years. He looked remarkably cheerful, though that might have been something to do with the amount of charas he’d been smoking over the last few days. He was covered head to foot in ash and...
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A Dip into Kyotos Floating World
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Isabella Tree
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Japan
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Kansai
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Kyoto
Our Japanese friend Noriko and her husband, Masato, were as apprehensive as Charlie and I. They had lived most of their lives within a stone’s throw of Kyoto and never before met a geisha. Like us, they had assumed that the legendary ‘flower and...
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In the Land of Raja
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Isabella Tree
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Sri Lanka
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Cultural Triangle
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Dambulla
It came as a bit of a surprise that the first elephant I was to see at close quarters in this, the most elephant-orientated nation in the world, was a dead one. But I was not alone. 15 years after his death there were still queues to see ‘Raja’, the...
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Skull Drums and Thigh Bone Trumpets
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Isabella Tree
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
The famous all-seeing eyes of Boudhanath stupa gazed covertly down on us as my friend Rosa unwrapped her mysterious package on the rooftop of the Saturday Café. She had already told me what was in it but it was hard to believe. It seemed so gruesome...
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