Image: StretchyBill A crepe-seller compares Parisians’ politics and their crepe-purchasing habits as Hollande comes to power. LAST NIGHT, AZIZ CLOSED his brightly colored snack stand early. Pol...
Episode two of the Big In The ‘Stans tour sees White City putting on a music festival. TAJIKISTAN WAS THE POOREST of all the ‘stans we visited. Dushanbe, once a beautifully built example ...
Photo by WhereTheRoadGoes It’s not all safaris and crime. GRAHAMSTOWN IN WINTER is freezing, but it doesn’t stop the artists. Or the tens of thousands of other people who descend on the o...
Good Old War drummer and singer Tim Arnold recounts what it’s like to play for the “towering ginger man who cracks jokes.”
Photo: iwona_kellie After Squamish, Skaha is the second largest sport climbing area in British Columbia. LAST SUMMER, when I first started learning to climb in the Kootenays, my friends were always t...
writing in Canada. Photo by: II Tonnotto Note: One of the finalists of the 2012 NatGeo / Matador NEXT GREAT STORYTELLER contest, N Chrystine Olson visits Hemingway’s last, perhaps least iconic ...
Scott Sporleder shares some of his favorite everyday scenes from his trip to Australia’s Northern Territory. I AM A LUCKY GUY in that I get to spend a good chunk of the year traveling the world...
China. Image by ninja gecko The following excerpts from new lessons at MatadorU’s travel writing curriculum examine the use of rhetoric and how it can undermine travel writers’ intentions...
Photo: Rob Lee Trip ideas for adventure sports + quality drinks to look forward to at the end of the day. [Note: This post is sponsored by our friends at Zephyr Adventures.] 1. Rocky Mountains, Color...
Colin Henderson introduces Munros, Corbetts, Grahams, and more in this practical guide to trekking in Scotland. COLLECTIVELY, THE HIGHEST HILLS in Scotland are called Munros (named after the man who ...
Film collective The Seventh Movement creates a thumping party vid of the Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th. Taciturn San Francisco-based film collective The Seventh Movement released its video of the c...
Photo: landrovermena This story was produced by the Glimpse Correspondents Program. I WAS TWENTY-ONE AND WORKING IN BAGHDAD when the idea to move to Kyrgyzstan first came to me. I was working at the ...
With a camera and an open mind, Coen Wubbels takes to the streets of San Jose, the capitol of Costa Rica. WHEN I ARRIVED in San José, I was warned not to take my camera with me downtown. I brought it...
Matador Community member Rick Roylance checks out an active volcano on the Indonesian island of Java. “BROMO, YES!” exclaims a rickshaw driver, as I get off the train in Probolinggo. Befo...
Photo courtesy of Mandy Glinsbockel Summer of 2012 means a few months of electronica, garlic bouquets, and random acts of queerness in the Great White North. Western Canada Calgary Stampede Calgary, ...
Artwork from Hamza El Din's album, “Escalay” This story was produced by the MatadorU Traveler-in-Residence program in partnership with Adventure Center. “Virtually everything that sparkled in th...
Photo: Artbandito The following are the actual entries from a diary documenting Noah Pelletier’s struggle to learn German. September 27 Packed a peanut butter sandwich and took the train to class. Th...
Image: Visions Service Adventures Buying travel insurance? Help fund a scholarship that helps kids to travel. MATADOR’S NEW PARTNERSHIP with Adventure Shield travel insurance means more money f...
Image: dground What travel insurance can and cannot do for you. I WAS STANDING on the dirt road at about 9pm one night in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. It was May of 1992, and my friend’s “sm...
Lixle and Shiine of Waayaha Cusub. Photo by author. “Shocked shocked! Who is behind this trail of destruction? The extremist rebels are. They galvanize people on the street for their wicked cau...
Roni Sivan in Cham Resh, Cambodia Big congrats go out to the folks at Austin2Angkor. I FIRST MET RONI SIVAN at Matador’s Austin meetup in 2011. That’s also when I was introduced to her Au...
Matador Ambassador Drew Tabke shows a few tricks and techniques from his recent backcountry expedition in Alaska on how to set up a bomber camp in the snow. IN LATE APRIL I spent 11 days snow camping...
Photo: Frederic Mancosu This story was produced by the Glimpse Correspondents Program. I’M SICK OF THIS SMUDGED GLASS DOOR. It’s been dirty since we moved in four months ago, slick with the oil...
Nashville North, Cowboys, Ranchmans, the Round Up — keep your hat on at one of summer’s biggest parties. FOR 10 DAYS IN JULY, Calgary throws down its two-step of frat party and Western fa...
Screengrab from JR's TED talk How French street artist JR birthed a global art project that allowed ordinary people to tell their own stories. WHEN THE FRENCH STREET ARTIST JR was awarded the TE...
“They’re fighting for the most important source of life on Earth — water. Will you fight with them?” THAT’S THE QUESTION posed by the ClearWater Project. This community-...
Banff National Park. Photo: pat_ong The new Explore Canada Like a Local (ECLAL) app and website brings trip planning info for Canada to your smartphone / tablet. The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC)...
Congratulations to Kate Newman, Amy Harris, Evan Carpenter, and Sarah Ginter, winners of the “Next Great Storyteller” competition. BIG STOKES and congratulations to the winners of Nat Geo...
Photo courtesy of Revo Shane Townsend tests out his Revo sunglasses as a city boy and a country boy. THE AIR on 6th Street sways with blues beats like lazy footsteps. Calls of drink! drink! drink! pu...
Stuck on a sand bar. All photos: Author A guide to traveling by local boat up the Chindwin in northwestern Burma. UNTIL THE MOMENT something happened that shouldn’t have, our fourth day traveling by ...
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