In June 2016, my friend Alfy and I kayaked, hiked and waded 1,300km from the source of the River Kwanza, deep in the Angolan highlands, out into the Atlantic Ocean. Our expedition raised over USD25,000 to fund The HALO Trust’s mine clearance work in Angola. If you are interested in a narrative account of what…
Features, Middle East
What I Did On My Vacation to Iraq
by Sean •
Africa, Features
Somalia, Spaghetti and Pirates
by GiovanniContadino •
The Places
Polo’s Bastards Worst Destinations of 2011
by ROB •
Logs
Becoming the Dictator – Preparing yourself for the role
by Dean Farisian •
So it all rolls down like this. You side with the rebels, against some idiot who thinks he has the authority to run this country because of some stupid ritual called an “election’ – the nerve! You know you can do better, people’s will be damned, once you’re in the driver’s seat this backwater of a country can get where it’s supposed to go.
Middle East
Adventures in Hebron and Nablus
by Wild in Africa •
I refer to Palestine as that region otherwise known as the West Bank and Gaza and at least nominally under Palestinian political control. I refer separately to Israel as that region on the other side of the 1948 Armistice Line, the pre-1967 borders. I am fully aware that in the complex and convoluted geopolitics of…