Survival International, the movement for tribal people estimates that there are still around 40,000 people in some 100 tribes around the world that have had at most limited contact with ‘civilisation’ (lucky them!). The Brazilian government department for Indian affairs, FUNAI, estimates that there are up to 70 tribes that have had limited contact in its [...]

Due to massive irrigation to feed Soviet era cotton fields, the Aral Sea (in fact a lake) in Uzbekistan has reduced from nearly 70,000 square kilometres 40 years ago to under 20,000 square kilometres now. This leaves vast tracts of desert that are mostly uncharted and unexplored … Get out there and explore!

Never wanting to be one to be unprepared when I travel, I always like to know what the weather is likely to be at any new destination. So prior to setting off for Prague in the Czech Republic last week I checked the weather data on WhereWhenWhy. Seven degrees celsius average temperature in April sounded [...]