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The Jungle Girl of Rattanakiri
Cambodia’s ‘Wild East’ is many things; it’s the leafy thwack of a machete over thundering waterfalls; it’s the pounding of tribal drums as a shaman slits the throat of a buffalo; it’s the scent of...
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Tomb Raider 3: Steve Falls In Quicksand Near The Rat Temple And Is Sad
Dusk fell over Cambodia’s Northwest Frontier as the police chief paced across his wooden hut, barking in Khmer at my translator. “The chief says the Rat Temple is cursed,” Vira explained. “He says you...
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Photo Series: “Asia in Color”
Angkor Wat, Cambodia. The monsoon arrives over the Punjab, India. Bamboo grove, Japan. Rice hats, Vietnam. Golden domes of a mosque, Pakistan. Apsara dancers, Cambodia. Violet mist and Buddhist monks....
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Getting a Deadly Illness & Other Buttfuckery
“Our father, who art in heaven, Stay there. And we shall stay here on earth, Which is sometimes so pretty.” -Jacques Prévert *********************************** Until recently I was scheduled to die...
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Slumber Party with Headhunters
After a month of fruitless searching, I ventured into Kalimantan territory, in the dark heart of Borneo, where my luck took an unexpected turn. Steel flashed in the jungle mist. JoJo clenched his...
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Photo Travelogue: The Biggest Darkness (An Expedition to the Largest Cave...
When I was a little fat kid and my favorite computer game was Microsoft Encarta, I promised myself that one day I would visit the Sarawak Chamber in Borneo. I wanted to see the biggest darkness. I...
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Bungle in the Jungle, Five Days in the Hide: An Ill-Fated Search for the Rare...
“Hell is not hot, or cold. Nor is it deep below ground, or somewhere in the sky. Instead it is a place on Earth filled with sucking bogs, disfiguring diseases, and millions of tiny flesh-eating...
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Garden of the Corpse Flower: A Sumatran Jungle Quest for the Rarest Flower on...
An angry, 260 pound Sumatran Orangutan is enough to spoil any vacation. To illustrate this, jungle guides in the Gunung Leuser rainforest enjoy showing visitors the scars they carry. Jensen lifted his...
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Walnuts & Machine Guns: A Taliban Tale
Tweet A man with a machine gun has been following me for the last five days. His name is Zia, and he is very, very shy, especially for a man with a machine gun. He first started shadowing me in the...
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The Long Road To Nowhere: A Hitchhiker’s Tale from Outer Mongolia
Tweet On the third day, I made a sea-change decision: I thought, if I ever get out of this miserable desert, I’m going to write my first postcard ever. “Sunny Greetings from the Gobi!” it will say,...
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