Mark Johanson
Journalist at Freelance
Author of Mars on Earth (Oct ‘24) | Freelancer @NatGeoTravel @TravelLeisure @FoodandWine @LonelyPlanet covering travel, food, design & nature in Latam & beyond
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bbc.co.uk | Mark Johanson
Once emptied of wildlife, South Africa's Babanango Game Reserve is now home to the Big Five – thanks to a bold rewilding project led by Zulu communities and global conservationists. DDaybreak filters through the fever trees and umbrella thorns of South Africa's White Umfolozi River Valley, splintering orange light across a puckered grassland teeming with newly arrived wildlife.
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flipboard.com | Mark Johanson
Leaders stumble from one crisis to anotherNo matter how one wants to sweeten what is unfolding in South Africa, the reality is that our government is stumbling from one disaster to the next …
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robbreport.com.au | Mark Johanson |Belinda Aucott
It’s been immortalised in literature and on film—join us as we follow Che Guevara’s footsteps and tackle a rugged Andean passage from Argentina to Chile. There’s a point near the start of Che Guevara’s classic travelogue The Motorcycle Diaries when the young Marxist revolutionary crosses from his native Argentina into the unknown wilderness of Chilean Patagonia.
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lonelyplanet.com | Mark Johanson
All islands have their folklore, but few can compare with Robinson Crusoe, whose name alone recalls the fictional castaway modeled after a real-life privateer marooned here in the 1700s. This remote Chilean outpost, 667km (414 miles) west of Valparaíso in the South Pacific, has, at various times, served as a base for marauding pirates, a prison for Chilean independence fighters, a WWI battleground, and the site of a multimillion-dollar treasure hunt.
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qantas.com | Mark Johanson
March 05, 2025By Mark Johanson | Photography by Matt Maynard Plunge into the cinematic scale of Patagonia on a guided multi-day hike in Chile. The wind in Patagonia makes itself known through invisible shoves. One minute, it props me up; the next, it threatens to blow me down. At one point, I feel close to levitating. Yet I couldn’t possibly fly right now, not with a 14-kilogram pack strapped to my back.
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I recently sat down with @AFARmedia for a Q&A about my new book, Mars on Earth, looking at what it's like to travel in the driest inhabited place on earth, how to find serendipity on the road & the mind-warping appeal of arid landscapes... https://t.co/Xa6bSOu0pN
