Inspiring Travel Writing from Mark Jolly
Mark Jolly is a contributing editor for Condé Nast Traveler (U.S. edition), and his feature writing - on all aspects of contemporary culture - has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, New York, Gourmet, Details, The Times and The Guardian. He started out in journalism at Oxford, where he edited Isis, the university magazine.
After an 11-year leave of absence spent in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and, mostly, New York, Jolly has returned home to London. Yet as the product of English-Iranian parents, and having lived in three continents, he considers himself a world citizen.
After an 11-year leave of absence spent in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and, mostly, New York, Jolly has returned home to London. Yet as the product of English-Iranian parents, and having lived in three continents, he considers himself a world citizen.
Articles by Mark Jolly
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Culture Crash
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Mark Jolly
I like to consider myself a world citizen. A citizen of the world. Somebody who's traversed the ends of the earth and has always felt at home. I've prayed with Burmese monks and seen the early morning sun scale the nippled pagodas of Mandalay. I...
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Cuba Calling: Havana, a work in progress
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Mark Jolly
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Cuba
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Havana Region
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Havana
But, her songs of bruised majesty won't last forever. So go now, before it’s too late. Before somebody bothers to switch the music, before it becomes South Beach. I first found it, or rather heard it, in the roar of the cariola. I had decided...
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Copacabana 24/7
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Mark Jolly
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Brazil
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Rio and the Southeast
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Rio de Janeiro
Friday, noon. Two things hit me the moment I approach the most famous beach in the world: 1. Every woman I see looks naked. Completely naked. It's an optical illusion of sorts because I am wearing my nonprescription sunglasses and squinting from 40...
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The South Atlantic’s Best-Kept Secret
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Mark Jolly
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Brazil
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The Northern Beaches
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Fernando de Noronha
Saturday, 2 am. A huge pregnant moon lights up Lion's Beach like an abandoned movie set. The tide has receded so far that soon we'll be able to wade out toward Morro da Viuva – one of the 21 secondary islands off the coast of Fernando de Noronha,...
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Carnival of Carnivals
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Mark Jolly
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Brazil
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The Northern Beaches
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Pernambuco
"Do you have a fantasy?" I get asked this question a lot during the days running up to carnival. And I'm never quite sure how to respond. The first couple of times, I assume I’m being propositioned, Brazilian style. This is, after all, the place...
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Before You Die: Canoe the Sea of Cortez
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Mark Jolly
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Mexico
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Baja California & The Pacific Northwest
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Baja California
Baja, Mexico: The remote corridor between La Paz and Loreto is just about the only place off the coast of California - either America or Mexico - where you can cruise 80-something miles and not see a soul. Just a sprinkling of palapa shacks, a few...
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Before You Die: Visit the Baha'i Lotus Temple
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Mark Jolly
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India
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Delhi Region
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New Delhi
New Delhi, India. Houses of the holy are meant to dislocate you from the whirligig of modern life. Amid the nuttiness that is New Delhi, the Baha’i Lotus temple does this and then some: it is an architectural miracle, whose giant marble petals...
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Before You Die: Trek the World's First Wilderness
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Mark Jolly
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United States
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New Mexico
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Gila
Gila, New Mexico, USA. Established as the world’s first wilderness in 1924, the Gila is the topographical all-sorts of the American southwest: where else can you scour desert scrubland and snow-clad forests within a day’s hike and still...
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Mark Jolly: Top Five Hotels
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Mark Jolly
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Argentina
FINCA ADALGISA: CHACRAS DE CORIA, ARGENTINA At the gateway to Mendoza’s choicest vineyards, Finca Adalgisa is a superb blend of old-moneyed elegance with all the perks of a modern boutique property. The stylishly restored manor house is...
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Something Wild
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Mark Jolly
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Argentina
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Argentine Lakes
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San Carlos de Bariloche
Llao Llao. So nice they named it twice. In fact, they built it twice. Argentina’s most celebrated hotel, first constructed in 1938 by the legendary Alejandro Bustillo, was a monument to the natural world, a colossus of carved stone, encased inside...