Inspiring Travel Writing from Rupert Isaacson: Page 2 of 2
Articles by Rupert Isaacson: Page 2 of 2
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Spring in the Hill Country
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Rupert Isaacson
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United States
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Texas
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Austin
Few people outside the US have ever heard of the Texas Hill Country, a beguiling corner of America where the Deep South meets the Southwest. A vast limestone uplift that rises west of the cities of Austin and San Antonio, it is a paradise of...
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Bushmen of the Kalahari
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Rupert Isaacson
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Botswana
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Kalahari
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Matetsi Game Reserve
Get down! motioned the three hunters, small lithe men in ragged clothes with bows and quiver slung at their shoulders. Tom and I lay prone in the sharp Kalahari grasses. Just ahead grazed a pair of spiral-horned kudu. Bo - the oldest hunter - crept...
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Colorado - To ski or not to ski
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Rupert Isaacson
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United States
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Colorado
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Aspen
How many of us have come in from a day of wet snow skiing in the Alps (or worse, a day of no-snow), day-dreaming about other places, other mountains, where the powder is always perfect, and the skies are always blue? For many skiers and snowboarders...
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Kalahari
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Rupert Isaacson
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Namibia
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Skeleton Coast
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Windhoek
It was winter in the Kalahari, the grasses yellowed by sun, the trees black and bare, the sky an unremitting, dazzling blue. The three Ju’/Hoansi Bushman hunters - lean brown men, whip-thin, with sharp features, quick eyes, and hair that grew in...
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Sea kayaking with Killer Whales
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Rupert Isaacson
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United Kingdom
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Western Isles
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North Uist
Sea Kayaking around the deserted islands of the Outer Hebrides, camping on uninhabited sandy beaches, watching the sun go down over the wild Atlantic through the Sound of Harris, would be wonderful enough. To paddle out among pods of porpoise and...
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South India
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Rupert Isaacson
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India
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Kerala Region
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Kerala City
A break in the trees revealed the village far below - one more hour down through the wet, sweaty forest. We were in the Cardamom Hills, southernmost range of South India’s Western Ghats, trekking with the Munnuvans, a tribe of rainforest cultivators...
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Wales
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Rupert Isaacson
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United Kingdom
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Wales
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Brecon
The Black Mountains rise abruptly from the lush woods and fields of central Wales, a long spine of steep-sided heather moorland criss-crossed by ancient drover’s tracks. The high country, which can have snow flurries even in summer, is very exposed...
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