Adventure Travel

Paul was just six-years old when the rebels came for
him in February 2002.

Guidebooks for the world’s dark places? - Lee Ridley reviews the Bradt Travelguide to Uganda.

Horsing around with the French, Americans and Swiss in a little-known corner of the world.

Thailand
Unregistered mobile phones will stop working in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued southernmost provinces by mid-November, in an effort to curb bomb attacks triggered by cell phones. Since May only users of pre-paid mobile services have been required to register with authorities, but Thai communications authorities have expanded that programme to include all cell phones. The plan aims [...]

I know I’ve already posted information on this subject, along with Dave Perkins’ article “The Hills Have Eyes” but I received this email just a day or two ago, from a Journalist in New Jersey, requesting certain extra information on SE Turkey and N Iraq.

The Turkish government has blocked a press conference which was to be held in Belgium by the Kurdish organisation KONGRA-GEL on Friday (26th Aug 2005) in which the KONGRA-GEL was to announce a temporary cease fire as an answer to the peace calls by intellectuals in Turkey. The Belgian authorities stopped the press conference after [...]