I was recently approached by the Afghanistan Analysts Network from Kabul (AAN for short). The occasion was the news that Czech zoologist Daniel Jablonski decided to examine the forgotten collec...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/travelogues/796-afghan-lizards
A writer from a small country, of course, looks towards the big nations, towards France, Germany, the UK... He fantasizes about countless editions of his books, even pocket editions sold at airpo...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/travelogues/794-original-moldova
The first time I traveled the 125 kilometers, it was cold, it was October and there was a fair, and I went unprepared, so I dragged Les Miserables and Lost Illusions in my arms to the Temple, whi...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/travelogues/792-tegel-wings
On the fourth day we saw a dark rocky mass that protrudes from the ocean, and from which there are about 3,000 kilometers to the nearest continent. When the ship approached the mass on the calm s...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/old-travelogues/791-island-tristan-da-cunha
The book "Eskimo Poetry" was published in 1961 by the Bagdala publishing house from Kruševac, Yugoslavia, as part of the edition entitled "A Little Library - Poetry in Translation". These poems...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/traveloscope/790-eskimo-poetry
The MIXTECS were one of the largest indigenous nations in Central America. They lived in several warring city-states, the most famous of which was Tututepec , which flourished in the 11th century...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/traveloscope/789-codex-zouche-nuttall
One day I was sitting at my laptop, getting bored at home and looking randomly at Google Maps, when something interesting caught my eye: I noticed a giant circle in the Sahara, in the middle of n...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/travelogues/788-the-eye-of-the-sahara
Jinn (sg. jinni) are supernatural beings in Arabian folklore; some regard them as angels and some as demons, yet they are neither. While man was built from clay and angels from light, as related ...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/traveloscope/786-the-jinn-of-mehmed-siyah-qalam
A mustached border officer in a leather jacket gently drinks his morning coffee under a huge picture of Bashar Al Assad, at the Lebanon-Syrian crossing of Masnaa. A bit suspicious, I hand over my...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/travelogues/761-syria-2019
If you're a shoestring traveler, accommodation might be the single most expensive item on your budget. A small, light tent can save you a lot of cash if you're willing to give up some creature co...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/travel-knowledge/tips-tricks/760-choosing-setting-up-tent
Through the frosty plane windows, the scenes that I had cultivated intensely in my mind in the previous months began to materialize: the largest glacier in Europe, from which hundreds of rivers f...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/travelogues/757-traveling-in-iceland
LAST YEAR I APPLIED FOR THE ANNUAL US DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM, COMMONLY KNOWN AS US GREEN CARD LOTTERY OR AMERICAN DIVERSITY LOTTERY. AND I GOT IT! Since the DV-2016 program starts eac...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/travel-knowledge/tips-tricks/758-how-i-won-american-green-card-lottery
* From conception came growth. From the growth, thriving. From thriving, exuberant thought. From the thoughts, memory. From the memory, desires. * * The word became fruitful bathed in a pal...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/world-poetry/755-maori-the-creation
We sat chatting about Vavau Tua Lik; Then the women spoke to us: "Let's go look for Lik, to watch the sunset; Let's listen to the birds chirp and the dove coo. Let's pick flowers on the slope of ...
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/world-poetry/754-tonga-a-social-poem
1. When the earth came into being when the sky arose when my songs first sounded the holy mountain stood before me revived. In the center of the sky, a revived boy goes down four roads at once....
https://www.thetravelclub.org/articles/world-poetry/753-apache-poems-of-masked-indians
Cities built on hills have one advantage: their vantage points let us observe vast panoramas. Deep underneath us, we can see the outlines of streets, parks, buildings and other topography otherwi...