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Wish I were there...

With the pandemic continuing to disrupt travel, we have been asking writers to journey in their imaginations, to tell the story of a distant place they love and yearn to revisit

Wish I were there: Michael Palin on his greatest adventure
The veteran traveller recalls a thrilling ride through Peru’s Pongo de Mainique, ‘one of the most beautiful canyons on earth’
Wish I were there: South Georgia on my mind
Its remote settlements lie abandoned but the ‘Serengeti of the south Atlantic’ is alive with a dizzying abundance of wildlife
Wish I were there: the ghosts and glories of Dartmoor
Raised in the tropics, novelist Catriona Ward returned each summer to the ‘alien and exotic’ moors
Wish I were there: on horseback across Mongolia
A 1,000-mile ride across the country offers a taste of nomadic life that seems more alluring than ever
Wish I were there: a slow train across Siberia
Trundling through thousands of miles of snowbound wilderness, the Baikal-Amur Mainline is a cure for claustrophobia
Wish I were there: the pristine waters of Palau
The tiny, Covid-free nation has created one of the world’s largest marine reserves

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