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This section contains materials related to cultures, geography, anthropology, etnography, linguistics, religions, history, and the diversity of the world in general. Unlike travelogues or travel photo galleries, which usually relate personal experiences, traveloscopes can be anything, from short stories, comics, sketches, drawings, videos, music, fables, texts about interesting traditions, weird cultural moments and so on. A travelogue is anything that fascinates us, and that fascinates you. Speaking of which, feel free to send us your contributions - we will be happy to publish them here.

Restoring the Freedom

26. 9. 2018
Restoring the Freedom
Redzib Skomorac
[Iran]

If you’re interested in nomadic cultures and traditions of the world, or people in general, here is a documentary you should not miss. Anthony Howarth’s People of the Wind (1976) is a unique ethnographical documentary...

No life: a short documentary

No life: a short documentary

Lazar Pascanovic, Uroš Krčadinac, Smirna Kulenovic

Travelers: Inesa, Uroš, Lazar In September 2013, using the Travel House in Granada as the starting point, we got on a ferry and crossed into...

The Nod: A Subtle Lowering of the Head

The Nod: A Subtle Lowering of the Head

Musa Okwonga

If you’re a black person who has ever visited a place where there aren’t many other black people, then you will be familiar with The Nod. The Nod is...

The improbable rise and fall of Couchsurfing

The improbable rise and fall of Couchsurfing

Nithin Coca

At the beginning of a year-long world trip back in 2006, I joined Couchsurfing, the first massive, Web-based travel social network. It put a new...

On the road again

On the road again

Willie Nelson

On the road again,
Just can't wait to get on the road again.
The life I love is makin' music with my friends,
And I can't wait to get...

Can hitch-hiking survive the 'sharing economy'?

Can hitch-hiking survive the 'sharing economy'?

Adam Weymouth

Thumbing rides must be one of the greenest forms of travel, and despite all the scare stories and public service warnings, drivers still stop for...

Volunteer Tourism

Volunteer Tourism

Reinier Vriend

The first time I came in contact with volunteer tourism, I was staying with my family in Swaziland. A company there had paying volunteers and I got...

The Lost Generation

The Lost Generation

Jonathan Reed

I am part of a lost generation.
And I refuse to believe that
I can change the world.
I realize this may be a shock, but...

Migrants Journey Across the Border

Migrants Journey Across the Border

Encarni Pindado, Monica Campbell

After years of documenting migration in Mexico, Spanish-born photographer Encarni Pindado began a new project that handed the equipment —...

The Khoisan Once Were Kings Of The Planet. What Happened?

The Khoisan Once Were Kings Of The Planet. What Happened?

Diane Cole

Some 22,000 years ago, they were the largest group of humans on earth: the Khoisan, a tribe of hunter-gatherers in southern Africa. Today, only...

Weather Man

Weather Man

Evgenia Arbugaeva

Vyacheslav Korotki is a man of extreme solitude. He is a trained polyarnik, a specialist in the polar north, a meteorologist. In the past thirty...

Lost in translation

Lost in translation

Ella Frances Sanders, Maria Popova

"Words belong to each other," Virginia Woolf said in the only surviving recording of her voice, a magnificent meditation on the beauty of language....

The Statue of Liberty in Paris

The Statue of Liberty in Paris

Cyriaque Lamar

In science fiction filmdom, the destruction of the Statue of Liberty is merely a sign that the carnage is chugging along at a steady tack. But...

Travelling: Running Away or Running Towards?

Travelling: Running Away or Running Towards?

Nomadic Matt

My dad always asks what I'm running away from with my travels. A few weeks ago, a commenter told me to stop running away and live life. And I once...

The real story of poverty

The real story of poverty

Brandon Stanton

If Instagram followers were currency, street photographer Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York, would be a wealthy man. Known and beloved for his...

Being a gynaecologist in Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world

Being a gynaecologist in Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world

"When I started working, I would not help people when they came to me for an abortion. I would say no," says Dr Lima, an Afghan gynaecologist who...

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