The frontier town of Aswan lies by the river Nile and has been southern Egypt’s commercial gateway since antiquity. From here local governors, known as the Guardians of the Southern Gates, would oversee trade of gold, ivory and granite with Nubia.
Read MoreThe Maldives is made up of some 1,200 small coral islands and sandbanks, and the only way to reach most of them is by boat. Seven nights aboard the Scubaspa Ying promises to whisk me away to the region’s finest ports of call.
Read MoreOn a two-man skiff deep down a tributary of the Ucayali River in Peru, I am fishing for piranha.
Read MoreIt’s 30°C on a November afternoon in the West Indies and the Sea Cloud’s twenty-odd billowing sails are about the only brushes of white in an otherwise brilliantly blue sky.
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