Tag: travel
Lāhainā ‘completely wiped out’ – US declares Maui wildfires disaster as toll tops 53
By Felix Walton
A New Zealander on holiday in Maui says the wildfires devastating the Hawai’ian island are unlike anything he has seen before.
Deadly wildfires...
Iran’s great research adventurers – a talk with Issa Omidvar
By David Robie
They have been dubbed the “Persian Indiana Joneses”. Their adventures are fabled and hair-raising, as shown by a Jivaro shrunken human head...
Archive: Take route N20C to a hidden scrap of Spain in France
Because of an error in translation of the terms of a treaty between Spain and France signed in 1659, a hamlet in France on...
Archive: Addis Ababa: Vibrant city in a fairytale kingdom
A former New Zealand Herald journalist, David Robie has travelled widely overland in 14 African countries and is now group features editor of the...