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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
Mar 16, 20184 min read
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Masai Mara: Watching the Wild Life of Wildlife
A safari in Kenya is a bucket-list classic, and deservedly so. But it's the detail as much as the grandeur that stays with you afterwards...
Chris Wright
Jan 23, 20186 min read
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Staying in a story at Loldia
To stay at Loldia House is to stay in a story. Story upon story. There is the story of the main house, a stocky brick and stone...
Chris Wright
Jan 14, 20184 min read
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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
Jan 1, 20186 min read
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Life at the Sharp End of Climate Change
Euromoney magazine, September 2017 Pacific island states like Kiribati, the Cook Islands and Palau are among the most exposed in the...
Chris Wright
Sep 14, 201713 min read
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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
Nov 1, 20166 min read
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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 2, 20165 min read
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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
Sep 1, 20168 min read
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Iran: When is a Door Not a Door?
Euromoney staff have committed no end of humiliating faux pas around the world over the years, but we like to think we broke new ground...
Chris Wright
Sep 1, 20152 min read
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Iran: On the Road Outside the Capital
Euromoney, September 2015 Iran is big. Iranians are fond of telling visitors that it experiences four distinct climates at any one time,...
Chris Wright
Sep 1, 20155 min read
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On the Road in Palestine: a Story of Business Resilience
The performance of West Bank businesses and banks is testament to the resourcesfulness of its people Twenty per cent year-on-year growth...
Chris Wright
Sep 1, 201515 min read
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Montenegro Tourism Chases its Neighbours
For adventurers who like to be one step ahead of the tourist hordes, the Balkan state of Montenegro has that frisson of the "destination...
Chris Wright
Apr 1, 20155 min read
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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
Apr 1, 20145 min read
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The Crazy Story of Crazy Horse
The Ziolkowskis and the Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota Author's note: The following is an unused draft chapter of my book, No More...
Chris Wright
Apr 1, 201428 min read
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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
Jul 1, 20136 min read
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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, 20126 min read
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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
Nov 1, 201226 min read
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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
Apr 1, 20126 min read
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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, 201210 min read
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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
Mar 1, 20126 min read
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