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This section contains articles I have written which have not been published elsewhere. If you could like to publish one in your publication or on your site, please contact me on chris@chriswrightmedia.com
Chris Wright
Oct 27, 20227 min read
The Delirious Dunes of Namibia
It’s all about the dunes. Before sunrise you leave your lodge and drive along one of Namibia’s few tarred roads, paved to avoid...
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Chris Wright
Oct 4, 20196 min read
Blood, Thunder and Politics at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church
Harlem church tours have become a New York Sunday morning tourist attraction. They can have an uncomfortable voyeuristic feeling, but...
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Chris Wright
Oct 4, 201918 min read
Diary of a Dash Across Australia
So it was like this. I got a message from my friend Heath, who was on his way from Busselton in Western Australia to Gold Coast in...
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Chris Wright
Mar 9, 20198 min read
Tears, Track and Tourism on the Death Railway
A large industry exists around the site of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway, where thousands were worked to death in World War Two. It...
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Chris Wright
Oct 28, 20185 min read
Jeeps and Lava: Joining the Many at a Mount Bromo Sunrise
Travelwrighter.com, October 2018 It is 3am and the air is roaring. The sound is coming from jeeps, hundreds of them, climbing the steep...
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Chris Wright
Aug 29, 20186 min read
Aitutaki: the South Pacific as you want it to be
The Cook Islands' crown jewel is the lagoon of Aitutaki What’s your mental picture of the South Pacific? Mine was a lagoon. Clear, blue,...
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Chris Wright
Apr 19, 201813 min read
Ningaloo: Australia's Secret Reef
While concerns grow about the health of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia's Indian Ocean coast boasts one just as grand but far less...
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Chris Wright
Jan 23, 20186 min read
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...
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Chris Wright
Jan 14, 20184 min read
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...
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Chris Wright
Apr 1, 20155 min read
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...
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Chris Wright
Apr 1, 201428 min read
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...
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Chris Wright
Jun 1, 20094 min read
Paying for Abuse: Inside a Turkish Bath
June 2009 I knew Hasan and I were going to get along when he threw a bucket of water over my head. Granted, he then tried to beat me to...
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