The Explorers Who Discovered Easter Island
If you had wondered about the explorers who discovered Easter Island, Ahu Akivi is their monument. It was my fifth day on Easter Island. So far, I had managed to get to my top...
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Travel Sustainably | INDIA | How I Tried To Travel Responsibly
Travel Sustainably is a Teja on the Horizon article series reviewing my efforts to travel more responsibly. This edition reviews new things I tried when I travelled to INDIA – whether by pre-planning, or from...
Why You Should Not Fear Scams in India
The very first person I met when venturing into Varanasi, was probably a scammer. This may be a strange way to begin an article about not fearing scams in India, but stay with me. Then...
Travel Sustainably | NEPAL | How I Tried To Travel Responsibly
Travel Sustainably is a Teja on the Horizon article series reviewing my efforts to travel more responsibly. This first edition reviews new things I tried when I travelled to NEPAL – whether by pre-planning, or...
Annapurna in the Monsoon Day 1: An Expedition of Three Sisters
My female trekking guide hefted my backpack with one arm, testing the weight. She glanced at my red hiking day bag, which I would carry myself. “You can move more things into the backpack,”...
Did We Find the Hidden Sibu Island Mermaids?
He chose Sibu Island for the dugongs. “Remind me to take you to a Malaysian island!” I had said, many weeks before my couchsurfer even arrived. In retrospect, it was an unusual invitation to...
The Tide to Dhigurah and Jumping Overboard
I hadn’t even arrived in Dhigurah yet. My flight to Maamigili, where I would transfer by boat to the atoll island of Dhigurah was late that night. But Day 0 of my volunteering stint...
Lessons from Volunteering in the Perhentian Islands
As recently as a few years ago, when I went volunteering for the first time in the Perhentian Islands, this was not really a thing for a local Asian. This was the kind of...
Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme: Giants Beneath the Waves
The Article That Created Teja Not long ago I went to the Maldives to volunteer for the Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme. It was an incredible two weeks, learning about the great work that...
The Highly Questionable Dhiffushi Lobster Expedition
It does not often happen that way, but occasionally experiences happen when you’re lying around doing absolutely bugger all. This one involved lobsters and a canoe, on the Maldivian island of Dhiffushi. That day I was tucked under a...
