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A group of tourists have lodged a complaint with the Ministry of Tourism after seeing "too many" tigers in the Sundarbans this week.

After some wonderful adventures in Tea Land, I returned to Dhaka to get down to the business of becoming an expat. Step one: find a flat!

I made this music video clip with the help of my whizz-bang editor friend Karen Rodriguez and a generous musical donation from Tiny Spark. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA0BPct_yEE]

I’ll begin this entry with a well-known travel fact: switched-on travellers don’t arrive in small towns after midnight.  Only disorganised risk-takers do it; those who don’t mind bedding down for the night in, say, a petrol station.  After meeting such a fate in Nepal, I’d said to myself, “Never again.”  But then, three years later, […]

The following interview appeared on The Comment Factory’s  website in September 2009. ‘Holiday in Afghanistan’   By Jessica Mudditt In the winter of 2009 an Australian primary school teacher dared to visit Afghanistan as a tourist.  In this interview, Nick Buckley, 29, provides a glimpse of the other side of Afghanistan – a country still celebrating lavish […]

Hello from Bangladesh I’ve started this blog so that I can tell you the best (and worst) bits about my extended stay in Bangladesh.  After two weeks of travelling and a spot of freelancing, I’ll start a six month internship at The Daily Star, an English language daily national newspaper based in Dhaka. Let’s get […]

  Here is a link to my photos on Demotix of the protest at the Iranian embassy in London on July 25 2009. http://www.demotix.com/news/global-protests-iran

It was midnight in Tehran when a sexy young Swede named Viktor knocked on my door and invited me to the world’s third highest ski resort. I said ‘alrighty’ and went back to bed.

  Iranian Photography Now is edited by Rose Issa,  an independent curator and producer of contemporary visual arts and film from the Middle East and North Africa, and the Director of Beyond Art Productions.  I met with her to discuss her latest project.  The luminous hardback contains the works of 36 photographers, some very well known, such as Amirali […]

Hi Jess When Mousavi was the Prime Minister during the Iran-Iraq War, Khamenei [now the Supreme Leader] was president. They used to argue with each other about how the country should be run. Mousavi was good in government back then. Although the economy was very bad, he tried his best not to put economic pressure […]