A short travel story by Geoffrey Gorer (1905-1985), an English anthropologist and writer. He visited West Africa in 1934, in order to study...

On the fourth day we saw a dark rocky mass that protrudes from the ocean, and from which there are about 3,000 kilometers to the nearest continent....

I’m opening my eyes: morning, southern Turkey. Outside we first see stone houses in beige colour, then a gigantic oil refinery, then barbed wires...

A sermon that Francis Owen, a British missionary stationed in Natal, delivered to the Zulu king Dingaan and his people in the early 19th century....

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...

There are more than a hundred thousand Berber motifs. Distributed for millennia throughout North Africa, they are everywhere: on murals, paintings,...

I want to take you on a poetic journey around the world through the ancient tribes and the poetry that lived in them. This journey will consist of...

Burkina Faso is by no means an area frequented by tourists, but at the base of a hill overlooking the surrounding sun-drenched West African savannah...

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...

"Do you always go to war zones with people you meet at parties?", my coworker asked as I explained that I wanted time off to go to Goma with this...

A writer from a small country, of course, looks towards the big nations, towards France, Germany, the UK... He fantasizes about countless editions...

– I’ve heard there is a wall there – I said.
– What wall? – Husam replied. – It's all just propaganda. There is no wall. I asked him about...

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...

Years ago, I bumped into a Canadian couple in Patagonia whose every step had been pursued by serendipity. They'd arrived in the Los Glaciares...

A group of couples in Taiwan, a Zulu king and Swazi princess in South Africa, a priest and child bride in Ethiopia—National Geographic has been...

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Welcome to The Travel Club’s Travel House in Athens. Please read these basic house rules and notify us by filling out the form at the bottom of the...

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...

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...