Chris Schalkx

4 days ago | cntraveller.com | Chris Schalkx

“They’d come from there,” said Qing Lao, pointing a leathery finger at the snow-cloaked mountains from where the caravans would appear. We were in Niding, a tiny hamlet cradled by the mountains of northern Yunnan, in the southwest of China, drinking yak-butter tea around Lao’s kitchen stove. I was coaxing him to dive deeper into his memory.

2 weeks ago | cntraveler.com | Chris Schalkx

All products and listings featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. While Bali's eternal popularity has created problems with crowding and commercialization across the island, things are different in sleepy seaside Pererenan, just a half-hour walk from the party scene of Canggu.

4 weeks ago | cntraveller.com | Chris Schalkx

We'd been plodding through the northern Congolese rainforest for almost two hours when I started to suspect that our guide had lost the plot. Gabin Okele, standing little more than five feet tall in his patched-up rubber boots, madly hacked his machete through the thicket, snipping away snarls of arrowroot and knotty lianas with a pair of garden scissors ("Salad surfing," he called it).

1 month ago | cntraveller.com | Chris Schalkx

I met a man on Koh Surin Tai, and he didn’t know his age. A dozen wispy hairs curled from his chin, his eyelids drooped under the weight of decades spent reading horizons. He was a Moken, or sea nomad. His Austronesian ancestors roamed the Andaman Sea for centuries, and stories of their liquid lives lingered in his mind like the salt on his skin. He remembered his early days: a childhood spent on a flotilla of kabang houseboats, living by the monsoon winds and changing tides.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Chris Schalkx

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