Chris Wright
The World is Not Enough
Meet the people for whom visiting all of Earth's 193 UN-recognised countries is just the start. AFR Sophisticated Traveller, November 24...
top of page
Search
Chris Wright
Jun 13, 20207 min read
The Other Side of Everest
AFR Sophisticated Traveller, October 2019 Mount Everest has had a bad press of late. There have been too many deaths on the mountain and...
Chris Wright
Oct 4, 201911 min read
The Shorts-Wearing Banker who Built a Unique Hotel
AFR Sophisticated Traveller, August 1 2019 Being put on the spot by an awkward question led banking executive Neal Cross to spend...
Chris Wright
Oct 19, 201811 min read
Red Rockets: Space Tourism in the Former USSR
Australian Financial Review Sophisticated Traveller, October 2018 The only place you can see humans launched into space today is in...
Chris Wright
Mar 30, 201811 min read
Lake Baikal: Siberia's Frozen Jewel
Big, beautiful, spiritual, frozen. A few days on Lake Baikal gives you a new perspective A version of this article ran in Metro newspaper...
Chris Wright
Mar 16, 20184 min read
Katong: The Funky Singapore District at the Sweet Spot of Gentrification
Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, March 16 2018 The Peranakan people are all about cultural collision. The Peranakan are the...
Chris Wright
Jan 1, 20186 min read
Tiong Bahru: Singapore's Coolest Suburb
Qantas Travel Insider, January 2018 Nowhere else in Singapore looks like this. Just a few metres back from one of the city’s teeming...
Chris Wright
Nov 1, 20166 min read
The Mersey Beat
Qantas magazine, November 2016 Back in the early 1980s, the playwright Alan Bleasdale was looking for an image to convey the utter misery...
Chris Wright
Sep 2, 20165 min read
Tourism in Iran
The Independent, September 2 2015 The country will soon be opening up again after years of isolation. Soon, there'll be the chance for...
Chris Wright
Sep 1, 20168 min read
Touched by Shangri-La
AFR Sophisticated Traveller, September 2016 Disaster almost confined the ancient town to fiction. Chris Wright finds it revived, mystique...
Chris Wright
Apr 1, 20145 min read
Bring Up the Bodies
Qantas: The Australian way, April 2014 “Some day I will go to Aarhus To see his peat-brown head, The mild pods of his eye-lids, His...
Chris Wright
Jul 1, 20136 min read
Stage Whispers
Qantas: The Australian Way, July 2013 The Australian Way is in Bonifacio, Corsica, cycling a segment of the opening stage of this year’s...
Chris Wright
Nov 1, 20126 min read
Giant Steps are What You Take
Qantas: The Australian Way, November 2012 In a dimly lit corner of an Arizona hotel ballroom, a handful of elderly gentlemen sit in two...
Chris Wright
Nov 1, 201226 min read
The Truth is Out There: Where Tourism Meets Conspiracy
Discovery Channel Magazine, September 2012 We wanted to write about conspiracy, about cover-ups, about what we don’t know; about strange...
Chris Wright
Apr 1, 20126 min read
The Loneliest Road in America
Qantas: The Australian Way, 2012 In July 1986, Life magazine visited US Route 50, a stretch of road that crosses Nevada east to west....
Chris Wright
Mar 1, 201210 min read
The High Road to Kyrgyzstan
Discovery Channel Magazine, March 2012 It is two in the morning when we blow a tyre, four thousand metres up in the Pamir Mountains and...
Chris Wright
Mar 1, 20126 min read
After the Flood: The Three Gorges
Qantas: The Australian Way, March 2012 The Yangzi is one of the handful of iconic rivers that everyone knows of, even if they’ve never...
Chris Wright
Feb 8, 20125 min read
Bear Necessity: China's Panda Sanctuary
Qantas: The Australian Way, February 2012 Is there any animal so obstinately intent on its own demise as the giant panda? They are...
Chris Wright
Dec 1, 20115 min read
Exploring Arundhati Roy's Kerala
Qantas: The Australian Way, December 2011 In 1997, Arundhati Roy’s book, The God of Small Things, introduced the world to the southern...
Chris Wright
Oct 1, 20116 min read
Korean Border Tours: Where the Cold War Lives On
Qantas The Australian Way, October 2011 Two South Korean soldiers stand facing north, fists bunched, in a taekwando stance, staring...
bottom of page