Chris Wright
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...
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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
- Sep 1, 2015
- 2 min
Iran: When is a Door Not a Door?
Euromoney staff have committed no end of humiliating faux pas around the world over the years, but we like to think we broke new ground...
Chris Wright
- Sep 1, 2015
- 5 min
Iran: On the Road Outside the Capital
Euromoney, September 2015 Iran is big. Iranians are fond of telling visitors that it experiences four distinct climates at any one time,...
Chris Wright
- Sep 1, 2015
- 15 min
On the Road in Palestine: a Story of Business Resilience
The performance of West Bank businesses and banks is testament to the resourcesfulness of its people Twenty per cent year-on-year growth...
Chris Wright
- Apr 1, 2015
- 5 min
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...
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
- Apr 1, 2014
- 28 min
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...
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
- 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
- Nov 1, 2011
- 15 min
Micro Matters in Central Asia
Euromoney, November 2011 Microfinance has its problems, but it can drive the economies of developing nations. So what if it wasn’t there?...
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,...
Chris Wright
- Dec 1, 2010
- 5 min
Welcome to the Gates of Hell
Discovery Channel Magazine, December 2010 The locals call it the gates of hell. And you don’t have to get too close to see why. Deep in...
Chris Wright
- Nov 1, 2010
- 5 min
Sandakan: Australia's Most Desperate Sadness
The Australian Way, November 2010 Russ Ewin is watching the sun set from the window of a Borneo hotel. “They always have great sunsets...