Travel News & Views

Following “How many parasites do you have,” the question I am most frequently asked is: “How did you get into indie travel?”

Citizen science is becoming all the rage these days. Projects such as breeding-bird atlases and wildlife monitoring have taken hold among a cadre of keen and highly skilled amateurs.

One of the biggest issues that expats have to deal with is residency. Obviously, residency permits differ by country, and you’ll need to research this thoroughly before you make a move.  By…

There’s a time and place and way to take photos in the public sphere. Here’s a guideline from our senior editor.

Mammoth changes could be about to take place in Cuba, what does this mean for Canadian travellers?

When not aspiring to be a zookeeper or an architect when I grew up, for a while I yearned to be an astronaut. By Simon Vaughan Having always had an interest in…

By Ryan Murdock, Photos by Tomoko Goto I’ve heard so many horror stories about folks who sold their homes and cashed in all their chips to move to their dream “place in…

Once endemic and chronic, damaging and deadly, tuberculosis was on its way to eradication. Now, it’s back with a vengeance in some parts of the world, and travellers would do well to be prepared.

Simon Says Travel | Over the past two decades my travels have taken me across the equator 40 times (nine times on land) to 51 countries on all seven continents and on…

Where you’re going, you won’t need roads.