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    Tourism in Iran
    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...
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    Touched by Shangri-La
    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...
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    Iran: When is a Door Not a Door?
    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...
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    Iran: On the Road Outside the Capital
    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,...
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    On the Road in Palestine: a Story of Business Resilience
    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...
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    Montenegro Tourism Chases its Neighbours
    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...
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    Bring Up the Bodies
    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...
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    The Crazy Story of Crazy Horse
    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...
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    Stage Whispers
    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...
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    Giant Steps are What You Take
    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...
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    The Truth is Out There: Where Tourism Meets Conspiracy
    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...
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    The High Road to Kyrgyzstan
    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...
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    After the Flood: The Three Gorges
    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...
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    Bear Necessity: China's Panda Sanctuary
    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...
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    Exploring Arundhati Roy's Kerala
    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...
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    Micro Matters in Central Asia
    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?...
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    Korean Border Tours: Where the Cold War Lives On
    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...
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    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    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,...
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    Welcome to the Gates of Hell
    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...
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    Sandakan: Australia's Most Desperate Sadness
    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...
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