4 articles tagged with river travel
The heavy iron gates of the former penal colony creaked open, revealing a story far more complex than I'd anticipated. Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni isn't just about its infamous prison history—it's a cultural crossroads where six ethnic communities have woven their traditions into...
There's something about standing on the banks of the Niger River in Mopti, watching wooden pinasses glide through the morning mist, that makes you forget you're a perpetually broke grad student with a casino dealer's tan. After three years of...
The city of Iquitos sits like a green island in Peru's northern Amazon, completely disconnected from the country's road network yet connected to the cosmos in ways that continue to astonish me. As an astronomer accustomed to remote locations, I've...
Picture this: you're designing a video game level set in a bustling city with one major plot twist – there are no roads connecting it to the outside world. Sounds like fantasy, right? Welcome to Iquitos, Peru – the largest...