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.
"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 embarked upon the dangerous trade of offering desperate women secret...
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...
On the evening of August 8th, which was the third day of street fighting in the London suburb of Croydon, the protesting kids set fire to some...
"Tours for travelers, not tourists" is the slogan of a tour company whose brochure landed on my desk a while back. This stuck me as a pretty nifty...
John Pilger has clear views about the duty of journalists. True to form, his latest film The War You Don't See pulls no punches. Shortly before this...
Offensive statements about girls and women are more common than you think. Everyday, females around the world hear rude and abusive words towards...
In 1950's Tehran, in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad is 16 years old and has just gotten married to her cousin Parviz Shapour, against her family's will. A...
This text was originally delivered by Werner Herzog as a speech in Milano, Italy, following a screening of his film "Lessons of Darkness" on...
When asked what the new Travel Club identity should look like, I pondered it for a long time. We all did, for countless nights. For months. We...
Mikael Korpela is one of the admins of HitchWiki, the biggest encyclopedia for hitchhiking in the world inspired by Wikipedia and Adams'...
Several pages from a major illustrated book I made during a long journey trough Europe. It was created spontaneously, while traveling, which...
A comic about a rather quirky and capricious lift (or elevator, if you will) in Belgrade - a lift that, despite its low speed and old age, still...
A comic based on an Eskimo fable. Every day, brothers go hunting, but - alas! While they're away, someone is sneaking in and sewing clothes for...