Inspiring Travel Writing from John Borthwick: Page 2 of 14
Articles by John Borthwick: Page 2 of 14
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The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
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John Borthwick
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Machu Picchu
In Cusco, the Inca capital, the ancient masonry is so supple you'd swear that the stones were woven. We leave it one frost-fanged morning on the six a.m. train for our destination, Machu Picchu. The old pistons wheeze out an eponymous pant - "machu-...
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Driving the Red Centre
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John Borthwick
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Australia
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Northern Territories
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Alice Springs
It's like driving through an enormous sand-painting. The surface of Central Australia's Stuart Highway may be ribbon-smooth, but to each side of it are ancient red sand ridges and ochre salt pans.The highway from Alice Springs to Ayers Rock is no...
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The Transcendental Escalator Banaue
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John Borthwick
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Philippines
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Luzon Islands
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Banaue
There's much competition to be the eighth wonder of the world. Everything from Niagara Falls to Elvis's ghost has been nominated. The brochure for the Philippine's contender modestly acknowledges that it is but one of a throng: "The Banaue Rice...
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Cities of the Gods: The Glory of Ajanta and Ellora
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John Borthwick
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India
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Maharashtra
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Ajanta
Imagine a rock carving so huge that it took 7000 labourers working in continuous shifts some 150 years to complete. Such is the awesome engineering of the Kailas Temple at Ellora, in western India.Ellora and its sister temple "caves" at Ajanta are...
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Buenos Aires: Tango Town
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John Borthwick
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Argentina
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Buenos Aires and the Pampas
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Buenos Aires
In Recoleta they often die as they have lived — beyond their means. Buenos Aires' most prestigious suburb, Recoleta, has its own exclusive necropolis where row upon row of marble vaults accommodate the dusty repose of the city's once-gilded...
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Norfolk Island
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John Borthwick
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Norfolk Island
Tiny Norfolk Island has no income taxes, McDonalds, foreign debt, dole or graffiti. There has been no major crime since 1855, and there's only one street light. Norfolkers can proudly say, "We don't have it all." This self-governing Australian...
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A Slice of Hunza High
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John Borthwick
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Pakistan
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North West Frontier
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Gilgit
They've never heard of Hunza Pie in Hunza. Nowhere among the bazaars and tea shops of high Karimabad can I find the succulent wedge of cheese, spinach and wholemeal pastry that epitomised 1970's "hippie vego" cuisine - and that came, one imagined,...
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Right Royal Hua Hin
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John Borthwick
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Thailand
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Southern Thailand: The Gulf Coast
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Hua Hin
One night in Bangkok is, well, whatever you make of it. After which you may wish to escape to the sea for a day or three. Should the undoubted virtues of Koh Samui be too far and the dubious ones of Pattaya too close then consider the old royal...
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Saddle Soaring in Guangdong
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John Borthwick
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China
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Guangdong
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Guangzhou
China has scores of so-called 'minority' ethnic groups - Tibetan, Kirghiz, Yao, Uigur and many more. As I pedal through the back blocks of Guangdong Province it strikes me that, due to the garish cycling garb we are wearing, my ten companions and I...
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Leewards, to the Islands of Dream
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John Borthwick
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French Polynesia
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Society Islands
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Tahaa
Half way between the islands of Tahaa and Bora Bora, we heave-to. The big catamaran lolls in the swell as our shipmate Maggie gently lowers Yurtle the Turtle (as she has nicknamed him) into the water. Tahaa restaurateur Leo Morou had found Yurtle in...
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