Revealed: The world’s loneliest tree, which sits on a remote New Zealand island 137 miles away from its nearest companion It’s a 100-year-old pine on Campbell Island, 500 miles from New Zealand Why it has not managed to reproduce is something of a mystery Instead of growing in a conventional cone shape, it resembles a … Read more
Suddenly my lips had gone numb and a similar sensation was progressing down my throat. I was sitting in a hut in a remote area of Fiji and sharing a murky-brown liquid with a group of village elders. The narcotic drink, called kava, is made from the roots of the kava plant – piper methysticum … Read more
‘Look left, turn right… jump!’ Faroe Islands offers ‘remote tourism’ – where web users can control a REAL-LIFE tour guide Wearing helmet cameras, local guides provide commentary to web audiences They are controlled by web users, who can tell them which direction to walk in Tourism has been growing in the Faroe Islands with 120,000 … Read more
Is THIS the real reason coronavirus testing is such a shambles? Plans to roll out remote Covid-19 screening are held up by red tape as officials insist on ‘weeks’ of training for testers Scheme to post swabs to private homes and care facilities was due for this week However, bureaucrats insist anyone who conducts tests … Read more
Where I live and write in Bath, heavy traffic shakes my building. Family, work deadlines, my bank account and, yes, Brexit all conspire to make me feel hemmed in. ‘The essential test of freedom asks how far in any direction we can move from where we now sit without deviating or meeting obstacles,’ wrote the … Read more
The ‘fantasy movie’ landscape of one of the most isolated and remote regions in the Himalayas has been revealed in a series of incredible pictures. They were taken by Lithuanian explorer Darius Radkevicius in Upper Mustang, a semi-autonomous region of Nepal that only opened to tourists in 1992. While there he took part in a … Read more
If you truly want to get away from it all Bouvet Island is the place to be – because it’s the most remote island in the world. This 19-square-mile chunk of wind-ravaged rock and ice lies 1,600 miles from the nearest permanently inhabited land – South Africa – and 1,100 miles from the coast of … Read more