What does it mean to be a serious traveller?
It goes beyond the number of times you climb aboard a plane, or cruise ship, each year. It’s more than the number of different countries you’ve visited. Being a serious traveller means that you know the tricks and secrets.
You know how to make the most of every visit. You know that whether you’re travelling for a weekend or a few months, you’re getting more out of each adventure.
Here are the tips every serious traveller needs to know:
It is said the mountains on Yakushima Island wring every last drop of water from the sky. The island is one of the wettest places in Japan, a place where the weather rapidly sways from sunshine to rain so torrential it is impossible to drive, and flash floods pour from the mountains.
Yet for my visit the weather gods were smiling, granting a day of perfect sunshine for my walk through the ancient cedar forests.The highlands are covered with forests filled with Yaku-Sugi, or ancient cedar trees over 1000 years old. It is estimated that some trees on the islands are nearly 7000 years old.
After standing in the darkness forever, dawn came swiftly in India.
Night was swirling away when the turnstiles opened, and I walked through to see the Taj Mahal for the first time.
I sat in a quiet square in the Venetian sunshine, staring at the alps. Some cats played about my feet. All manner of boats plied the waters, from sleek water taxis to the occasional ambulance. Across the water lay the Italian mainland, and I watched as the planes came in, bringing more visitors to this glorious city. Behind me stretched Venice’s Ghetto.
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Once upon a time, in a land of myth and fairytales, traders and hardy travellers made their way along the fabled Silk Route. Sometimes they ventured by foot, at other times by horse or donkey, but it was the double-humped camel who proved the most hardy adventurer of all.
With time, however, villages became towns, place became countries, and countries grew into nations. Borders were closed, wars declared, safer and quicker routes were travelled, and many thought the camels forgotten…