Inspiring Travel Writing from Steve Knipp
American writer Steven Knipp has been a journalist for two decades. Previously based in Hong Kong for 15 years, he worked as a senior correspondent for such British-managed newspapers as the South China Morning Post, the Asia times, and the Eastern Express. Aside from covering China and East Asia, he also reported on Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Australia and Russia. He is the author of two books on the Philippines.
Currently he lives with his wife in Washington, DC, and is US correspondent for the Hong Kong iMail newspaper, as well as being a regular contributor to the National Geographic Society, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune.
Currently he lives with his wife in Washington, DC, and is US correspondent for the Hong Kong iMail newspaper, as well as being a regular contributor to the National Geographic Society, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune.
Articles by Steve Knipp
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Australian Outback
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Steve Knipp
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Australia
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Northern Territories
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Alice Springs
There are no wake up calls at the Ross River ranch in the heart of the great Australian outback. The wild red parrots and silver crested cockatoos take care of that. At the first blush of a desert dawn, they assemble in their hundreds, high in the...
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The Tailors of Hong Kong
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Steve Knipp
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China
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Hong Kong
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Hong Kong City
Newly arrived in Hong Kong in the early 1980s and hardly knowing anyone, I went looking for a bespoke suit. My first tailor was young and fast-talking, and promised my new ensemble within three days. What's more, the suit adorning the dummy in his...
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St. Petersburg
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Steve Knipp
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Russia
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Baltic Coast
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St Petersburg
It is said that Russia's second city, St. Petersburg, is not really a Russian city at all, but an elegant European upstart implanted on the breast of Mother Russia. Moscow is five centuries older than St. Petersburg and is twice as populous [ten...
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Tashkent
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Steve Knipp
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Uzbekistan
The wicked old Soviet Union is dead, but travellers wondering what the Evil Empire was like at the height of its boorishness needn't despair. After all, there's still Uzbekistan. Just four hours by Aeroflot jet from a Moscow cluttered with...
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South Africa - Ruffling Feathers at an ostrich rodeo
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Steve Knipp
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South Africa
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Cape Town and around
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Cape Town
It’s the world’s craziest rodeo, where the blinkered ‘bronco’ only has two legs and the rider resists its attempts to throw him by holding on, not to reins, but to wings. Ostrich feathers may have gone out of fashion, but racing this dumb, yet...
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Singapore
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Steve Knipp
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Singapore City
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Singapore Island
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Singapore City
Singapore is so boring that even the sailors go to the zoo. I went there, too, hoping to see something improper. Unlike Singaporeans, monkeys are almost always willing to do scandalous things in public, but in Singapore I found that even the...
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Saigon - Make money not war
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Steve Knipp
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Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
I met the oldest little girl in the world on the streets of Saigon. Each morning she stood on the pavement outside my hotel, selling poorly printed post cards. She neither pleaded nor pushed, but merely stood there as silent and as stoic as a...
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Moscow - Starry-eyed capital of a shattered empire
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Steve Knipp
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Russia
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Central Russia
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Moscow
Perceptive travellers have long known that the most famous places are often actually the least known. So it is with Moscow, the sprawling hub of the once great Soviet empire and now clapped-out capital of the cash-strapped Russian Federation. Long a...
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Manila - charming choas or chaotic charm?
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Steve Knipp
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Philippines
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Luzon Islands
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Manila
After 20 years of being financially milked by the Marcos mob, and another decade of less than competent management, Manila is today the ugly toad of Southeast Asia. For first time visitors then, this ramshackle city can’t inspire instant awe in the...
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Darwin - Getting crocked in an Aussie frontier town
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Steve Knipp
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Australia
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Northern Territories
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Darwin
Everyone will tell you that Darwin, the rugged little capital of Australia’s vast Northern Territory, is a fun-loving, hard drinking town. They’re not wrong. Soon after my arrival in this clean, green, friendly city built on the edge of the Timor...