The Far East

Our archive of travel stories from China

Making a Life in China: A Documentary

An eTV documentary following three South Africans living in Bejing and Shanghai

South African in China

Thoughts on being South African in China, ahead of our appearance in the documentary Postcards from China, with links for Africans in China.

Travel and Nostalgia

“What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”

• Old World Wandering is about overland travel, about hauling backpacks across borders to find connections within regions and across cultures. It is a collection of travel stories from two journeys through the Old World, written by a South African couple who, after eight years travelling and living abroad, are now slowly making their way home, across Asia and down Africa’s east coast to Cape Town. Join them on their journey on this, their travelogue.

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• • London to Shanghai overland

  • Shanghai to Cape Town overland

  • overland travel

• Iain and Claire are in:
  Chiang Mai, Thailand

  Iain's reading:

  Burmese Days

  George Orwell

  Claire's reading:

  Bangkok Days

  Lawrence Osborne
• Travel stories from a year in India

• • Regions

  • Themes

• On the Travelogue

  • The Significance of the Travelogue
  • Enduring Travelogues in the Public Domain
• Travel books about India

• • Accommodation in Asia and Africa

  • Photo Gallery of travel destinations in Europe, Asia and Africa

  • Downloads

• Overland Travel

  • The Hippie Trail
  • The Banana Pancake Trail

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• Asides

  

  A journey across the road

  

  Nong Khai’s exceptional sculpture park
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    From the Chinese Fish Collection, “a large set of 19th century watercolour sketches depicting species from the waterways and seas of China and Japan.”

    
    
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    Four thousand years of human history on a single chart

    
    
• Overnight Buses

   Old World Wandering: A Travelogue by Iain Manley & Claire van den Heever is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.