Stories: Travel
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Niger Is the Most Amazing Country I Never Expected to Visit
Chances are you'll never get to go to Niger. I never thought I'd get to go there either. Boaters on the Niger River in Niamey, the country's capital. It's landlocked and mostly desert. The only non-African cities that offer direct flights are Paris and Istanbul. The desert northeast used to get tourists who wanted to...
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Maputo Meanderings
The colonial gaze, a subliminal how-to-vote poster from the government, and the red light district – such was my introduction to Mozambique’s capital. Jane Flood led a city tour for fellows from the International Reporting Project around some of Maputo’s more obscure sites. One of my favourites from the day was this sculpture...
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Why I Am Grateful for Traveling to Africa
I have written before that only a few short years ago I never wanted to visit Africa because I believed what the media fed me about the continent. I believed that Africa was full of child soldiers and brutal dictators. Ibelieved that diseases were rife across the continent. I believed that every country...
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Sounds of the Maasai
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Guess Who Had a Lizard In Her Room
What do you do when you come in from taking photos of magnificent views of Oyster Bay like this one… …only to come back and find this on the wall near your bed! If you said freak out you’d be right. I had a lizard in my hotel room today. It wasn’t...
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National Rose Garden in Delhi Made Me Stop to Smell the Roses (Obviously)
The National Rose Garden in south Delhi was a highlight for me during my all-too-brief stay in India’s capital earlier this year. Nestled among the dozens of embassies along the city’s wide streets and parks, this lovely space in the Chanakyapuri neighborhood captured my eye one morning as I jobbed through the area before another...
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Off the Grid in Choma
Jennifer James is traveling to Zambia as an International Reporting Project Zambia Fellow. The International Reporting Project is a part of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She is reporting on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis and how these three infectious diseases acutely affect mothers and children. You can follow her journey at #ZambiaHealth.
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A Flavour of Zambia
A trip wouldn’t be a trip without me banging on about the food and yesterday, during a break from reporting, I got the chance to sample a traditional Zambian meal. You always know you’re heading to a good place when you have to queue to get in and the road outside Twa-Pandula was packed with cars...
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Early Morning in Zambia
When I travel abroad I love to wake early to see how the locals get their day started. There is a major thoroughfare right outside our hotel so I grabbed my camera and my jacket (it’s winter here and quite cold in the mornings and evenings) and walked to the street to observe early morning commuters. As...
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A Visit to an India Full of Science and Engineering
I am writing this to you from New Delhi, India as I am here with the International Reporting Project as a New Media Specialist! We have been in the crowded, bustling, port city of Mumbai, the central city of Nagpur (home of several tiger refuges), the rural village area of Gadchiroli, and finally to the modern city of...