Travel

By Jack Souther At one end of the world’s largest man-made lake the Three Gorges Dam holds back the water of the Yangtze, and at the other end the city of Chongqing stands poised to use the new shipping corridor and cheap hydropower to boost its econ

By Jack Souther At Sandouping, a few kilometres upstream from the city of Yichang, we pulled into a viewpoint for our first look at the Three Gorges Dam. Stretching almost 2.

By Alison Lapshinoff The colourful houses of Valparaiso tumble haphazardly down the steep hillsides of the mad, Chilean port city, giving way to a multitude of container ships flanking a sparkling Pacific.

Named by Captain James Cook in 1770, the Whitsunday Islands are some of the most beautiful and well known islands on Australia’s Queensland coast.

By John Masters Meridian Writers’ Group PORTHCURNO, England—On a blustery cliff on Cornwall’s south coast is a folly grown from a garden.

By Jack Souther By the time our jet had climbed through the dense layer of brown gloom into clear air over central China the city of Beijing and its millions of smog-spewing cars was many miles behind.

By Neal Talbot NGORONGORO CRATER, TANZANIA – The thick underbrush ahead shakes in terror, before violently parting, and revealing the true king of the jungle — the African Bull Elephant. The sheer size of the animal is imposing.

By Jack Souther Ever since our first ancestors descended from the forest canopy and drew a line in the sand human beings have been protecting their turf with barriers of one sort or another.

By Jack Souther Except for the fact he was walking backwards there was nothing to distinguish him from other elderly Chinese gentlemen strolling toward the Temple of Heaven.

By Alison Lapshinoff It is three o’clock and my stomach complains loudly that it has not been fed since nine, when it was given its usual morning offering of croissants and coffee.