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Travel Wrighter

Travel writing and photography
for sites, newspapers, magazines and people with a passion for the world

By Chris Wright

Below, 'published' takes you to my published work in the mainstream press. For self-published writing available for syndication, click 'personal'. To see where my business, social and political journalism has met travel writing, click 'passions'. All photography is mine unless otherwise stated.

A bucket list cruise on the Nile

A bucket list cruise on the Nile

A bucket list cruise on the Nile

Australian Financial Review: Highflyer, February 2025 The article below is as filed. To see it as it ran at the AFR, click here Floating...

Chris Wright

Feb 28, 20256 min read

Remote, Minus 30 and with Polar Bears: the North Pole Marathon

Remote, Minus 30 and with Polar Bears: the North Pole Marathon

Remote, Minus 30 and with Polar Bears: the North Pole Marathon

Chris Wright AFR Sophisticated Traveller, May 23 2024 Read the article as it ran in the AFR here If the agony of running a 42.2...

Chris Wright

May 23, 20245 min read

Lithuania's Secret UNESCO-listed Heritage Weapon

Lithuania's Secret UNESCO-listed Heritage Weapon

Lithuania's Secret UNESCO-listed Heritage Weapon

AFR, October 5 2023 Read the article as it ran here Take a look at a map of Lithuania. On its west side you’ll see a thin ribbon of...

Chris Wright

Oct 5, 20235 min read

Rum, Bequia and the Mustique Mystique

Rum, Bequia and the Mustique Mystique

Rum, Bequia and the Mustique Mystique

AFR Sophisticated Traveller, May 19 2023 Read the article is it ran here So this is what happened. My wife and I turned 50 five weeks...

Chris Wright

May 19, 20235 min read

The World is Not Enough

The World is Not Enough

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...

Chris Wright

Dec 15, 20229 min read

The Delirious Dunes of Namibia

The Delirious Dunes of Namibia

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...

Chris Wright

Oct 27, 20227 min read

Sovereign Wealth Lessons from an Isolated Cree Nation

Sovereign Wealth Lessons from an Isolated Cree Nation

Sovereign Wealth Lessons from an Isolated Cree Nation

Euromoney, April 2022 In frozen far northern Alberta, one finds perhaps the world’s least likely sovereign wealth fund, investing...

Chris Wright

Oct 27, 202215 min read

Inside Singapore's Vaccinated Travel Lane Flights

Inside Singapore's Vaccinated Travel Lane Flights

Inside Singapore's Vaccinated Travel Lane Flights

Look, I don’t want to rub it in, but I spent last week in the Bavarian Alps. I walked every day in fresh mountain air. Cow bells rang and...

Chris Wright

Oct 9, 20218 min read

How Bhutan Built Conservation Finance Into its DNA

How Bhutan Built Conservation Finance Into its DNA

How Bhutan Built Conservation Finance Into its DNA

Euromoney, October 2019 Tiny Bhutan has a big claim to fame: the world’s first, and only, country that can claim to be not only carbon...

Chris Wright

Jun 13, 20208 min read

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