Inspiring Travel Writing from Nigel Tisdall
Nigel Tisdall's globetrotting career began one wet Monday morning in 1985 when he went to Londons Liverpool Street station and caught a train to Hong Kong. Since then, hes been roaming all over the world, writing principally for The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers. Currently Travel Editor of British Marie Claire, hes constantly checking into hotels. The best? A tent in Antarctica until it blew away. The worst? A candle-lit lodge in the Peruvian Amazon, where I just happened to spot a cockroach on my toothbrush
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Articles by Nigel Tisdall
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Madagascar
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Nigel Tisdall
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Madagascar
I am searching for an indri. It is up there in the treetops, somewhere... It is bathing in the morning sun, loafing like a lord in the canopy of the dense, damp rainforest that covers the eastern slopes of Madagascar. On an island world-famous for...
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Southern Tunisia
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Nigel Tisdall
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Tunisia
Mirages aren't what they used to be. Cross the Chott El Jerid, the largest salt lake in the Sahara, and the horizon magically turns to water, spawning a cabaret of illusory shapes that tax the traveller's imagination. While earlier visitors simply...
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Before You Die: On the Shores of Hudson Bay
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Nigel Tisdall
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Canada
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Manitoba
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Hudson Bay
See the Northern Lights - one of the best places in the world for aurora-viewing is Churchill, on the shores of Hudson Bay, Canada. For a dreamy adventure take the train up from Winnipeg in the depths of winter. Nigel Tisdall
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Before You Die: Sail a Felucca
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Nigel Tisdall
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Egypt
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Nile
Sail a felucca down the Nile, travelling mainly by night when the banks are festooned with stars and neon-lit minarets. In the day you can visit the ancient Egyptian temples lying between Luxor and Aswan. Nigel Tisdall
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Touring the Holocaust sites of Poland
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Nigel Tisdall
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Poland
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Krakow Region
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Krakow
It sounded like a holiday in Hell. Seven days touring some of the most harrowing Holocaust sites in Poland - Treblinka, Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto. Names that stain our century, death camps and destroyed cities that were once crucibles of...
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Dog-sledding in Greenland
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Nigel Tisdall
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Greenland
Dogs outnumber humans by almost five to one in Uummannaq, a robust Inuit community 590 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Until May, when the frozen sea relinquishes its grip on Greenland's northwest coast, the only way to get here is by...
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Before You Die: One of the Capital’s Great Gastronomic Stages
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Nigel Tisdall
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
Spend money in Paris - it’s so very easy. See the great 19th-century French canvases in the Louvre (rooms 74/75), go shopping in the Marais, then have dinner at Les Ambassadeurs restaurant in the Hotel Crillon, one of the capital’s great gastronomic...
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Before You Die: Remains of Whole Cities
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Nigel Tisdall
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Tunisia
Tour the Roman ruins of Tunisia, where the remains of whole cities lie stretched out in the sun. Start with the great collection of mosaics in the Bardo museum in Tunis, then visit Dougga, Bulla Regia, Thuburbo Maius and El Djem before crashing out...
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Before You Die: One Neat Package
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Nigel Tisdall
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Bolivia
Learn some Spanish then go travelling round Bolivia. With its combination of high Andean plateaux, intense Amazon rainforest, surreal salt deserts, rich indigenous culture and absorbing Spanish colonial cities like Sucre and Potosí, this...
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Reunion
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Nigel Tisdall
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Reunion
10,000 miles from Paris, there is a corner of the Indian Ocean that is forever France. Lying idly between Madagascar and Mauritius, the tropical island of Réunion is one of those strange morceaux of French culture that gets listed in the...