Journal
Reports, analyses and features from all 195 countries - the journalism behind the journeys.
Bridges Built to Be Destroyed
Iceland's ring road was only completed in 1974, across a black desert crossed by a river that appears once a generation carrying more water than the Amazon. The bridges were designed to fail.
The Wooden City and the Forest Behind It
A synagogue and a mosque sharing a car park, four national cuisines and no argument about which is real. Behind the timber capital are the Maroon nations whose ancestors escaped the plantations, fought the Dutch to a standstill in the eighteenth century, and won a land-rights judgment in the twenty-first.
The River That Runs in Colours
For decades, Caño Cristales sat inside a war. Now the guides who once grew coca walk visitors along a river that turns red, yellow and green — and the town of La Macarena is betting its future on keeping it that way.
Crossing the Wakhan: A Winter Traverse
The Wakhan Corridor in winter is one of the world's most demanding journeys. High altitude, extreme cold, almost no infrastructure.
On the Road Through the Sahel
Crossing the semi-arid belt between the Sahara and savanna — a slow overland journey through Mali, Burkina Faso, and northern Ghana.
The Last Quiet Temples of Northern Cambodia
Beyond Angkor Wat, in the provinces where few tourists venture, centuries-old shrines sit half-buried in jungle. We spent three weeks cataloguing what remains.