“A little imagination goes a long way in Fes” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

“As anyone who’s ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

“Calcutta’s the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

“There’s nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

“In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

“I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

“Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

“The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was […]

“As a travel writer I’ve specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader’s hair stick on end” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

“Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway […]