After years of seriously sweating the small stuff, and one too many hotel bathrooms instructing me to reuse my towels “to save the Earth”, a more complicated truth began to surface. By Nina Karnikowski.

Clever, cool and quirky, is this New Zealand’s most underrated city? By Nina Karnikowski.

The female freedivers of South Korea’s Jeju Island are still - as they’ve been for centuries - the economic background of a community shaped by land and sea. By Nina Karnikowski.

From yak-herder homestays to the wild high grasslands of eastern Tibet, a journey through Kham offers a window into Tibetan life at a moment of change.

Is it still possible to find a quieter, more regenerative side of Bali? And what happens when we do? By Nina Karnikowski.

New farm-style accommodation gives more people the opportunity to visit this pristine and exclusive island.

Sometimes a journey isn’t just part of the experience, it becomes the experience, writes Nina Karnikowski.

In this series, My Happy Place, our writers reflect on the destinations that they cherish the most.

A milestone trip to a remote region of Nepal reveals traditional ways of life – and some unexpected truths.

Bali’s just the beginning when it comes to our exotic near neighbour and its 17,500 or so isles, writes Nina Karnikowski.

When writer Nina Karnikowski began a new life on the land, it wasn’t to escape from the world. It was to dive deeper into it.

One of the state's wildest coastal treks has just become a whole lot easier to tackle, writes Nina Karnikowski.

Over time, one truth has become harder to ignore: climate change is not just an environmental crisis, it’s a symptom of a deeper economic pathology.

There's excitement and some trepidation as a remote Nepalese region is suddenly connected.

There's excitement and some trepidation as a remote Nepalese region is suddenly connected, writes Nina Karnikowski.

If we want to create a more meaningful life, maybe all we need to do is find the courage to die.

The rich culture of this isolated valley may help precent it from being loved to death, writes Nina Karnikowski.

A simple pair of socks found overseas created my new obsession, writes Nina Karnikowski.

This eco-camp in the remote Haa Valley is a place to reconnect to nature, and rediscover a more magical worldview.

They say never meet your heroes, but when we were unexpectedly given the chance to meet His Holiness, we were willing to take the risk, writes Nina Karnikowski.