Posts by Tom Laing

Beaches And The Dodo

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Eco Travel
The groom in question is Ian, as British as they come and still coming to terms with the cultural melting pot that is Mauritius, his new bride’s birthplace and the…
Image:©courtesy of Vira Vira Hotel

The Real Deal

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Eco Travel
When Michael and Claudia Paravicini moved their family from Switzerland to Chile in 2011, their plan was to leave the world of international finance behind to set up a simple B&B in…
Images: Gabriel O'Rorke

Tom’s Trip to Easter Island

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Eco Travel
Easter Island Eco Travel Legend has it that this beach was the landing point of Chief Hotu Matu’a, the original founder of the Rapa Nui civilization that made Easter Island…
Images: Gabriel O'Rorke

The Bahian Pace of Life

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Eco Travel
Brazil Eco Travel Ten years later, this ex-nurse who sold her Battersea Rise flat and left her job in Peckham to follow a peanut, is expanding Butterfly House, her two-year-old…
All images: Gabriel O'Rorke

Hats Off to Panama

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Eco Travel
‘Look at the skyline now, it looks like New York!’ boasts our driver, Diogenese, enthusiastically. And so it does, with a distinctly tropical twist, for Panama City has boomed in…

Tailing the Tiger

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Eco Travel
Landing in Delhi on a warm January morning, we are whisked (as far as traffic allows) to the Taj Mahal Hotel in the heart of New Delhi. After checking in,…