Maggie Shipstead

1 month ago | cntraveler.com | Maggie Shipstead

All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Tajikistan was a change in plans. My rail tour through Central Asia—Jewels of the Silk Road, offered by Golden Eagle Luxury Trains—was supposed to start in the country next door, closed, elusive Turkmenistan, but at the last minute the Turkmen government declined our group's visa applications.

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2 days agoAt a fashion store hidden within Uzbekistan’s oldest market, artists gathered to celebrate the country’s inaugural Bukhara Biennial. This fall, the ancient Central Asian city of Bukhara, which for centuries was a stop on the Silk Road — the 4,000-mile trade route along which goods and ideas spread …

Jan 3, 2025 | cntraveller.de | Maggie Shipstead

Kyushu: Mit der Überlebenskunst Foraging kann man Japan von einer anderen Seite entdecken. Ich schlüpfe in meine Gummistiefel und folge Prairie Stuart-Wolff in eine überwucherte Schlucht. Sie liegt nicht weit entfernt von ihrem Zuhause im Norden Kyushus, der südlichsten der vier japanischen Hauptinseln. „Ach, die Inoshishi waren schon vor uns da“, sagt die Schriftstellerin und Fotografin und zeigt auf eine Stelle, an der die Erde aufgewühlt ist.

Sep 18, 2024 | msn.com | Maggie Shipstead

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Sep 18, 2024 | travelandleisure.com | Maggie Shipstead

In my experience, the central danger of swimming with whales in the open ocean is not that you will get smushed or chomped by a multi-ton marine mammal or somehow vanish into the deep but, rather, that you may contract a scorching case of whale-swimming fever. This is a condition for which there is no known cure: those afflicted live in a state of perpetual longing, always dreaming of returning to the water and the whales. I should know. I’m one of them.