As a child, and even as an adult, there have been places I saw in photos or film and thought, “I’ll never go there.” The reason has never been security concerns or lack of interest; it has always been the perceived financial cost. Mont Saint-Michel, the UNESCO World Heritage Site and medieval abbey perched on […]
10 Photos: Thailand’s Famous (and Infamous) Full Moon Party
If you’ve ever backpacked in Southeast Asia or have undertaken casual research into the global party scene, you’re familiar with Thailand’s Full Moon Party. Whenever that lunar ball is all lit up in the heavens, alcohol and travelers wash ashore on Ko Phangan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. My first experience at the […]
12 Photos: Europe’s Migrant Crisis on Lesbos, Greece
Looking back on 2015, I think the hardest thing I did was spend only parts of three days on the Greek island of Lesbos, when the drama of the migrant crisis playing out there demanded more time than this. One million asylum seekers, many of them refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, crossed to Europe by sea […]
10 Photos: Faces in Egypt the Night President Hosni Mubarak Resigned
On February 11, 2011, at 6:00 p.m., it was announced that Egypt’s president of 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, had vacated his position. At that moment tens of thousands of Egyptians were gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, participating in the 18th day of protest demanding political change in Egypt. Many demonstrators had come prepared to die […]
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