Chris Wright
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...
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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
- 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
- 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 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...
Chris Wright
- Nov 1, 2016
- 6 min
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
- Sep 2, 2016
- 5 min
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 1, 2016
- 8 min
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
- Apr 1, 2014
- 5 min
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
- Jul 1, 2013
- 6 min
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
- Nov 1, 2012
- 6 min
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, 2012
- 26 min
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
- Apr 1, 2012
- 6 min
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
- Mar 1, 2012
- 10 min
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, 2012
- 6 min
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
- Feb 8, 2012
- 5 min
Bear Necessity: China's Panda Sanctuary
Qantas: The Australian Way, February 2012 Is there any animal so obstinately intent on its own demise as the giant panda? They are...
Chris Wright
- Dec 1, 2011
- 5 min
Exploring Arundhati Roy's Kerala
Qantas: The Australian Way, December 2011 In 1997, Arundhati Roy’s book, The God of Small Things, introduced the world to the southern...
Chris Wright
- Oct 1, 2011
- 6 min
Korean Border Tours: Where the Cold War Lives On
Qantas The Australian Way, October 2011 Two South Korean soldiers stand facing north, fists bunched, in a taekwando stance, staring...
Chris Wright
- Dec 1, 2010
- 6 min
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Air Magazine, December 2010 There is a signboard at the start of the track up Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in southeast Asia,...