panorama of northern Mongolian mountains

Wandering Danny - travelogues

Hong Kong, Oxford, Brittany*: food, architecture, megaliths (2007)
Kaikoura to Kahurangi*: New Zealand's Marlborough + Nelson (2006)
Mongolia and Beijing: from the steppes to the metropolis (2005)
North Island New Zealand*: Coromandel, Tongariro, Waikato (2005)
South Iceland + Scotland/England: walks, birds, buildings (2003)
Otago, Southland, Fiordland: New Zealand travelogue (2003)
New Zealand South Island: Westland + Southern Alps (2002)
North Pakistan & Western China: Chitral, Gilgit + Kashgar (1999)
India (Maharashtra & Rajasthan): with an Oxfam study tour (1998)
England, Catalonia, and France: London, Barcelona, Toulouse, Paris (1997)
Java + Bali, California + Arizona: volcanos and deep valleys (1994)

* incomplete

I have a separate site for Australian travel and bushwalks, and travel books are covered on my book review site.

travel blog

self-governance for Greenland - Economist

feel-good story about befriending elephants in Africa - SMH

no Lonely Planet guidebooks will be sold at Heathrow - Economist

BAA gives a bookshop monopoly to WH Smith, who give Penguin a travelguide monopoly

Tim Flannery's adventures in the New Guinea highlands - Throwim Way Leg

traditional machiya accommoation in Kyoto - SMH

Kashgar's Old City is being bulldozed - National

"a Chinese government plan calls for the relocation of 65,000 Uighur households, about 220,000 people, whose families have lived in the Old City for centuries"

Dubai doesn't sound like somewhere I'd be comfortable - Independent

recession photographs from the US, China and Eastern Europe - Boston

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I hope you enjoy reading about my travels! — Danny