Ghana: My 100th country and favourite place in West Africa.
On November 25, 2022, I found myself at the scorching hot border between Togo and Ghana. After handing in my passport at the Togo border, … Read more
Maliha Fairooz
How to Prolong Summer under the Sicilian Sun
As a Bangladeshi living in Berlin, I am perpetually cold. The city has 1 month of proper summer when the native berliners or northern europeans … Read more
For the love of coffee: How I find home in a cup of coffee wherever I go.
There is an almost constant longing…for a home that once was. Longing because that home no longer exists and because it can never quite exist … Read more
My Love Story with Lebanon: 10 Amazing Things About This Ancient Country.
I have been to Lebanon twice so far and both times its been incredible. I flew into the capital – Beirut, both times and made … Read more
How a quest to travel to a 100 countries brought me to the tiny island nation of Dominica.
I arrived in Dominica from Barbados. It was the second last stop on my world tour before I made my way back to my motherland. … Read more
Seychelles: From the perspective of a non honeymooner.
Perhaps the most ironic aspect of my reality is that I am both a hopeless romantic and a hopelessly unmarried person. This is not to … Read more
Karibu Kenya: 7 reasons this country should be on every Bangladeshi traveller’s bucket list!
For most Bangladeshis, Africa is a country, not a continent. If you tell your relatives you will be heading to Kenya for vacation, you will … Read more
10 Lessons I have learnt from living away from family in the past 10 years.
Picture this, it’s September 2009, and a somewhat tacky, scared, nervous, confused, and, most importantly, excited young Bangladeshi girl has arrived in the UK with … Read more
Visiting Cape Verde on a Bangladeshi Passport: A Transatlantic Travel Nightmare for The Third World Citizen.
If you are keen to find out whether or not you can visit Cape Verde on a Bangladeshi passport – the answer you will find online and on the country’s website is that you can do so by buying a e visa online and paying the airport tax and supplying the information for your travels such as reservations and ticket out of the country. However, if you want to know about these rules in practice: I will tell you this – don’t go there, it is no country for the third world citizen.
Why Rome will always be one of my favourite European cities.
I know I have not been to every city in Europe, nor have I been to every country in Europe yet. But, I feel confident … Read more