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Tea Time in the Sahara: A Journey Into the Depths of Mauritania

April 7, 2015 by Lawrence Hamilton Leave a Comment

It had been a long day. It must have been nearing midnight and we sat in the back of a pickup truck with a group of Taiwanese commercial fishermen. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mauritania, Travel Stories Tagged With: Train Travel, Travel Dangers

Batam: Portrait of a Free Trade Zone

April 7, 2015 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

Batam is a free trade zone, and all free trade zones are the same. They are artificial places, created through bi-lateral governmental decrees drawn … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Indonesia, Travel Stories Tagged With: Batam, Free Trade Zone

What Becomes of China’s Ghost Cities

August 1, 2014 by Wade Shepard

It was a normal outlaying area of a normal small city in the east of China. There was nothing about it that a passerby would find overtly peculiar, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Cities and Urban Development, Travel Stories Tagged With: Tiantai, Urban Development, Zhejiang Province

Mountains And Rivers Without End: Zhangjiajie Forest And Wulingyuan UNESCO Site

May 26, 2013 by Wade Shepard 8 Comments

They walked through a thick, blazing green pine forest, looking at scenery that they've only ever seen before in paintings. They climbed up past … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Environment, Mountains, Tourism, Travel Stories Tagged With: Hunan Province, UNESCO Site, Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie

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