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Syria: A Glimpse Before
Héloïse Vande Wiele documented Syria prior to the ongoing conflict: I took these photos in Damascus and Aleppo at the end of 2010/beginning of 2011 while I was studying Arabic at the University of Damascus. At that time, the uprising was starting in Tunisia and Egypt, and my Syrian friends were following the events with a ...
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Acoustic India
Last year, we introduced you to Gus and Delphi and their travels through Ghana and Burkina Faso with a battered acoustic guitar and a cheap camcorder. Over the summer, they traversed Northern India, and produced a follow up series of videos that we are proud to showcase: The Wild by TroTro Window was filmed in ...
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Burma
This photo-essay gives us a rare glimpse into a largely unknown country… All photos are Copyright @ The Wanderer
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New York: A Bronx tale
In this photo-essay, Courtney Yusuf shares his shots of the city that never sleeps… Courtney Yusuf
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New York: Melting Pot
Goh Li Sian on New York’s diversity… In New York, I don’t quite find my feet until I go to Queens. Manhattan is green and pleasant, its boulevards wide, its skyscrapers stately, but it’s not what I expected. My impression of NYC formed when I watched Rent at age fourteen, and that dark, gritty city ...
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Un-orthodox Russia
John Zablocki on a semi-religious experience in Tartarstan, Russia… The Temple of the Universein Kazan, Tartarstan (Russia), is the most elegantly bewildering thing I’ve laid eyes upon. If you visit a church in St. Petersburg or Moscow without doing your homework,you can still predict the basic history fairly well: Tsar ____ or Prince _____ commissioned ...
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Ramadan
Regulars editor David Blackwell explores the communal element of religious fasting on his travels through the Middle East… Many people would hesitate to travel in a country like Pakistan at all, too influenced by the country’s media-created image of a nation plagued by terrorism, civil war, and sectarian killings. It would seem, then, especially undesirable ...
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On Taxis
On the unique charm of foreign taxi travel… However hard you try, it’s going to happen to you at least once on a trip. Maybe it’s inconvenient bus timetablings, or miscalculated departures, or another case of Lonely Planet fabrications, but there will always be at least one occasion on which you arrive in a new ...
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Auschwitz
Helen Robb discusses her visit to Aushwitz More than 1.1 million men, women, and children lost their lives in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps. One not among that number is Kitty Hart-Moxon, who survived the camp and many other torments for almost two years prior to liberation. She now speaks widely on the importance of remembering ...