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Room to Rent

On the bus ride down the east coast of the South Island, the jagged shape of the Alps retreated into the distance on their southwesterly...

Midnight, at the War

[NEW YORK, MARCH 2003] — In the beginning I traveled in the hushed hours between midnight and dawn. I savored the quiet that fell over...

Issue 17: Reflections

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 17th edition. Many thanks to all contributors, readers, and particularly the editors—Paula Lee, Devi S....

Kea Call

I hardly noticed when the train started moving. It was the shift of the outside landscape that tipped me off, rather than motion beneath my...

Music and Memory: Wicked Game

I don’t remember if I heard the song “Wicked Game” before I saw David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, but for a while, I connected the...

Heartbeats Behind Our Songs

In Aotearoa New Zealand’s electric contemporary literary scene, Tina Makereti is a Māori novelist, essayist, scholar, and cultural worker with an unmistakable voice whose prose...

Issue 16: Encounters

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 16th edition: Encounters. In this edition, you will find over 110 works by more than...

White Knights—Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon 50 Years On

The Mekong Delta wetlands were grey, dotted with glinting roofs and petrified boats, rivers winding every which way like a gigantic drip painting. The city...

Food Shopping in Rome

In the US, naturally, I drove to the supermarket. The route led down a pot-holed avenue walled with office buildings. I loaded a cart with...

Death and Other Possible Futures

The archivist’s hair was bright red, and she had painted in a black streak. She stood out in the Canterbury Museum office, surrounded by neat...

The Surface of a Storm

It is ten days until the Performance Arcade in Wellington, the capital of Aotearoa New Zealand, a hilly, seismic city, wet and grungy and graffiti...

The Jokester

The nice lady serving coffee at the market detects a slight twang of an accent when I say, “Thank you.” “That’s a lovely accent, where...

Issue 9: Borders

In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways...

The Light Between Worlds

My grandmother was 4 feet and 10 inches on a good day with a head full of short, bouncy curls and a laugh that sounded...

Leaving to Go Home

I had just stepped into Malaysia. Thailand was behind me. The customs officer beamed and nodded, recognising immediately that I was a fellow Malaysian. “Hello,...

Thor Heyerdahl and Kontiki

Our classrooms had earthen floors and windows the size of full moons – a truant’s blessing, but I wasn’t one. We sprinkled water every morning...

Issue 1: Firsts

Welcome to Panorama‘s first issue. Our purpose is to shift the perspective of travel literature and imagery towards a more panoramic, modern worldview, and we...