On Earth this month
Festivals, food seasons and natural events worth planning a trip around — happening somewhere on Earth right now.
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The Lake at the Edge of the World
No roads lead here. You arrive by boat along the shore of Lake Tanganyika, and somewhere above you in the forest, a thousand chimpanzees are watching.
At the Foot of the Thunder Dragon
Only eight pilots in the world can land here. The kingdom charges you $100 a day to visit, and uses it to stay exactly as it is.
At the Gate of Mecca
For a thousand years, Jeddah was the port. Pilgrims came ashore, were processed, and sent inland. The buildings the ships saw first are still standing — some of them, anyway.
The Blue at the Centre of the World
For an hour and a half before the tour groups arrive, the Registan is yours alone, and the cobalt changes colour as the light moves. A country deciding in real time how much of its old self to keep.
The Smell of Heat
Six days on the central Mongolian steppe — six to a yurt, horse-dung in the stove, a lunar eclipse over the bonfire, and a country that has decided heat trumps smell every time.
A Bowl of Noodles Above a Chinese Restaurant in Paris
A failed 1970s modernist tower complex, the largest Asian neighbourhood in Europe, and the assembled accident of forty years of decisions made for entirely separate reasons.
Smoke and Sulfur
The crater at Ijen breathes blue fire before dawn — sulphur miners climbing into it with wicker baskets, doing by hand what the rest of the world automated a century ago. Bromo gets the photographs. Ijen gets under your skin.
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