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Here’s your dream holiday and it’s free … but there’s a catch
You won't remember any of it. Still interested?
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Mark Hodson
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How it feels to live in a liminal space between tourist and resident
Working remotely in Thailand, enjoying ultra-local slow tourism and finding things to do while my girlfriend is at work
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Mark Hodson
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November 2022
I really messed up this trip to Laos. But that's okay
It's not always easy to find the right path
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Mark Hodson
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Going on a trip? Close your eyes and listen
In an era dominated by visual imagery, where everyone is a photographer, we tend to neglect the other senses. What does a place smell like? How does it…
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Mark Hodson
October 2022
A romance in Thailand 30 years ago. But in the light of new photographic evidence, how reliable is my memory of events?
In the early 1990s I was backpacking around South East Asia when I had a brief love affair with a Dutch woman, who I’ll call K. We met on a truck in…
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Mark Hodson
September 2022
All those travel photos of other people's children. Where are they now?
Like many Western tourists, I've enjoyed taking pictures of kids in developing countries. But now I have mixed feelings.
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Mark Hodson
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August 2022
Saigon, 1992: the most thrilling experience of my life in travel
The sheer luck of finding myself among the first independent travellers in Vietnam for 17 years, just as this extraordinary city exploded into life to…
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Mark Hodson
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Hanging out with the hippies
From the archives: writing for the Financial Times, I spent a week in the dreamy Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar to find a colourful collision of…
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Mark Hodson
Phnom Penh, 1994: a photo essay
Less than 30 years old, these images capture the Cambodian capital on the cusp of rapid change.
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Mark Hodson
Taken for a ride
In 1995, I pitched a story to The Sunday Times: I would drive around the south of Morocco in a rental car, picking up hitchhikers as a way to meet local…
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Mark Hodson
Backpacking in Asia. A shadow falls, an eye test ... then my world comes apart
The doctor shone a bright light into my right eye and uttered three words that would change my life: “Oh … my … God!” He snapped off the light. “You’ve…
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Mark Hodson
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May 2022
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