Travel

The Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) had been on my bucket list for years. A decade of pilgrimages to Sado Island’s Earth C...

The calendar on the wall of the hospital reception room reads 1974, and there are magazines on the shelves from 1971. Across the ...

Holding someone’s Olympic gold medal for the first time can be like holding their baby; it’s shiny and beautiful, but it’s a bit unsettling, and you don’t want to drop it, so you smile and hand it back after a few moments. 

If you are a stranger in this strange land, the Naked Stranger is just like you. He is not from around here. He comes from a ...

It is night by the time you arrive. You can barely make out the trampled barbed wire fence as you ease under it. Your backpack ca...

The first time I walked on a pair of bamboo stilts with a 20-kg. pack on my back was the day I stood on Japan’s most northerly pr...

Alex Springenschmidt first came to Bali in 1998 and, like many before him, he fell in love with the waves, smiling faces and the ...

This article was originally published in Spring 2010. Outdoor Japan contributor Neil Hartmann sits down with Jake Burton in Ni...