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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 286 min read
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Remote, Minus 30 and with Polar Bears: the North Pole Marathon
Chris Wright AFR Sophisticated Traveller, May 23 2024 Â 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Jun 13, 20207 min read
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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 4, 201911 min read
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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 19, 201811 min read
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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 31, 201811 min read
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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
Mar 16, 20184 min read
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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
Jan 1, 20186 min read
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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
Nov 1, 20166 min read
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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 2, 20165 min read
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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, 20168 min read
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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, 20145 min read
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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
Jul 1, 20136 min read
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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, 20126 min read
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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
Nov 1, 201226 min read
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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
Apr 2, 20126 min read
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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, 201210 min read
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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
Mar 1, 20126 min read
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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
Feb 8, 20125 min read
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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
Dec 1, 20115 min read
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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
Oct 1, 20116 min read
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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, 20106 min read
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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
Dec 1, 20105 min read
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The Liberty: Bali's Perfect Shipwreck
Qantas: The Australian Way, April 2010 An unlikely perfect storm of circumstances made the Liberty a perfect wreck dive, wading distance...
Chris Wright
Apr 1, 20107 min read
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Arabian Rock Stars
Discovery Channel Magazine, August 2010 Deep in the deserts of Saudi Arabia sits one of the great archaeological marvels of the Middle...
Chris Wright
Feb 8, 20107 min read
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