Inspiring Travel Writing from Nick Maes: Page 2 of 3
Articles by Nick Maes: Page 2 of 3
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Running with the Rhinos
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Nick Maes
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South Africa
The walkie-talkie spluttered into life: “Darts in - top of the rump - a mother and subby, COME DOWN HERE NOW!” As we scrambled to obey our orders, I guessed that this meant that a mother and calf rhino had been spotted, and that we were...
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Cruising in Xitang
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Nick Maes
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China
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Xinjiang
I wouldn't normally associate a haunt like Xitang with the toothy gleam of Hollywood royalty. It's hard to imagine high-octane players like Tom Cruise kicking back in an ancient Chinese water-village and much easier to picture the place filled with...
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Chinese New Year
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Nick Maes
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China
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Shanghai Region
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Shanghai
This won’t make me popular north of the border, but here goes anyway: Hogmanay is for wimps. There, I’ve said it. If you want to play with the big-boys during New Year celebrations, you’ll have to travel a lot further afield than...
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Adrère Amellal Eco Lodge, Siwa Oasis, Egypt
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Nick Maes
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Egypt
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Sahara
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Siwa
Siwa Oasis has always been difficult to get to. A Persian army of 50,000 men perished while trying to reach this tiny speck in Egypt’s Great Sand Sea. Admittedly that was 500 BC, but the brutal landscape has remained pretty much the same ever...
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South Africa: Fairtrade Tourism
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Nick Maes
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South Africa
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Cape Town and around
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Cape Town
A Fairtrade holiday sounds as if it might be just a little too worthy and smug for its own good. Two weeks of unbleached cotton and a diet of organic lentils followed by the inevitable, if constipated, self-righteous after-glow doesn’t,...
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Island-Hopping in Mozambique
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Nick Maes
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Mozambique
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North Coast
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Pemba
I've had indolence ingrained in me, laziness taught as a masterclass and torpidity thrust on me as the norm. In other words, I've been thoroughly chilled-out at a very comfortable thirtysomething degrees celsius in the little visited Cabo Delgado...
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Welbourne
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Nick Maes
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Australia
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Victoria
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Melbourne
It was 2 am. I'd been in Melbourne for twenty-four sleepless hours and was still wide-awake, feeling as though I were missing out on the essential glamour of a 'Lost in Translation' moment because my low-rise hotel didn't have views of the city....
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A Spell in Stone Town
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Nick Maes
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Tanzania
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Zanzibar & Islands
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Stone Town
I was dropped off on Kenyatta Road just as a call to prayer wheeled out from a nearby minaret and spiralled into the sky. I stood besides the car half listening, half hunting for change when an old friend greeted me. “Welcome home bwana, safari...
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Aleppo
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Nick Maes
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Syria
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The Northeastern Desert
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Aleppo
As I moved through Syria, I became an idiosyncratic time traveller; quickly realising it is impossible to tread anywhere that hasn’t already been visited, inhabited or invaded by Phoenicians and Egyptians, Romans, Mamluks and the Knights Templar. TE...
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Shropshire and Offa's Dyke
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Nick Maes
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United Kingdom
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Midlands
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Shropshire
The obvious portal to south Shropshire is Ludlow, a delightful township couched beside the river Teme and below the dramatic folds of Clee Hill. It’s a small medieval and Georgian market-town with an astronomic gastronomic reputation. Although I’m...
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