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A Screaming Man Is Not a Dancing Bear
Today in 2023 I am in a rowboat, floating quietly down a tributary of the Mekong River Delta. The stalks and green foliage of water...
Meeting the Mistress
“Who is she?” I ask in a hesitant whisper, simultaneously dreading the answer and needing to know. Our bedroom is dark, though it’s only 7PM. The...
Black Ghosts
The three of us were gathered around a counter, eyeing pornographic imagery. A Chinese vendor, a veiled-up Muslim lady from Niger, and me. We were...
Decolonising the Border
It’s hard to imagine a more evocative (or more urgent) travel theme than BORDERS. The pieces featured in this issue of Decolonising Travel all engage...
Creating space for histories
Amsterdam’s Museum Van Loon, a mansion built in 1672 and previously inhabited by descendants of one of the Dutch East India Tea Company founders, was...
Night Farmers
The grand old train station, Hua Lamphong, in central Bangkok, has no cafe per se. Instead there is a food court. The food court offers...
Pain & Joy, Loss & Recovery
Imagine visiting home after three years with a new perception of, and feeling for, your homeland. I’ll take you on a tour of Vietnam to...
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...
Decolonising Travel Introduction
From the size of this issue, it’s clear that the evocative (and elastic) theme of Space resonated with many. When I first heard it, my...
1510
When I meet new people, they ask me what words I know and I say what sounds like, luego, so I pronounce the word as,...
It All Means Everything
South across the river, it was rising over the silhouettes of trees to fill the sky. It was close, seemed to be getting closer, and...
Gossip Girls
The air was sticky as we navigated the bumpy back roads of the village of Ban Tuek in Thailand. I was about to volunteer to...
Issue 8: Space
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s SPACE issue. From the very small to the enormity of our imaginations, essays grow from...
The Essence of Bourdain
In the aftermath of a catastrophe, such as a suicide, it is so much easier to be reminiscent and melancholy. We wallow in the why...
Issue 5: Lost
Welcome to Panorama‘s long-awaited LOST, our fifth issue, which we are dedicating to the great traveller, Anthony Bourdain, whose recent passing has affected us all....
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,...
Four Days
The International terminal is a bustle of activity. Strong lights illuminate a massive stone sculpture, with a dazzling effect because of all the sand particles...
Fermentation
There had been bombings, small ones that failed for the most part. A detonation in front of the Israeli Embassy that wounded only the bomber,...
How to Plant Roots in the Sand
The thunder and lightning crash so hard around my home it knocks paintings from the wall and tchotchkes to the floor. A wall of rain...
The Killing Tree
This is where you could have died when you were four. Your tiny body smashed against the tree trunk, your back bent into an impossible...