Chris Wright
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 27
- 15 min
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 9, 2021
- 8 min
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
- Jun 13, 2020
- 8 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2019
- 6 min
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...
Chris Wright
- Oct 4, 2019
- 18 min
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...
Chris Wright
- Oct 4, 2019
- 11 min
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
- Mar 9, 2019
- 8 min
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...
Chris Wright
- Oct 28, 2018
- 5 min
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...
Chris Wright
- Oct 19, 2018
- 11 min
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
- Oct 5, 2018
- 8 min
GoPay: Indonesia's Metal Ignition
Euromoney, October 2018 GoPay is considered southeast Asia's answer to Ant Financial. Its CEO comes with a background in the most micro...
Chris Wright
- Sep 1, 2018
- 11 min
From Apes to Apps: Neal Cross's Digital Journey
Euromoney, September 2018 Neal Cross brought a range of unusual experience to his job at chief innovation officer at DBS, one of the...
Chris Wright
- Aug 29, 2018
- 6 min
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,...
Chris Wright
- Apr 19, 2018
- 13 min
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...
Chris Wright
- Mar 30, 2018
- 11 min
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, 2018
- 4 min
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 23, 2018
- 6 min
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 14, 2018
- 4 min
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 1, 2018
- 6 min
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...