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.
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 just that: An almost imperceptible lowering of the head toward any...
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,
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...
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...
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...
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...
After years of documenting migration in Mexico, Spanish-born photographer Encarni Pindado began a new project that handed the equipment —...
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...
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...
"Words belong to each other," Virginia Woolf said in the only surviving recording of her voice, a magnificent meditation on the beauty of language....
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...
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...
If Instagram followers were currency, street photographer Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York, would be a wealthy man. Known and beloved for his...
"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...
The Catalan Atlas is the most important Catalan map of the medieval period (drawn and written in 1375). It was produced by the Majorcan cartographic...
I've had a recurring dream since I fled the Yarmouk Refugee Camp and came to Beirut. The dream takes me back to besieged Yarmouk, where death and...