UNLIMITED

AFAR

Brave New World

f0116-01.jpg
f0116-02.jpg
f0116-03.jpg
f0116-04.jpg
f0116-05.jpg
f0116-06.jpg
f0116-07.jpg
f0116-08.jpg
f0116-09.jpg
KATHERINE LAGRAVE

solo trips off the grid: Finnish Lapland, Okinawa, far reaches of New Mexico. And I’d long desired to visit the Peruvian Amazon, part of the world’s largest rainforest. But when it It all seemed a little too out there. But I pushed myself outside my comfort zone, and three months later, found myself at a lodge on the Ucayali River, the headwater of the Amazon. “You here alone?” asked another female guest. “Brave.”

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from AFAR

AFAR10 min read
Easy Does It New Orleans
IT IS LATE MORNING, the sun already bright and hot, and I’ve just arrived at Tchoupitoulas Street, a mostly non-descript corridor of New Orleans. As I stand on the sidewalk, cars whiz past, and I look in front of me at an expansive mural. It is color
AFAR5 min read
Australia
IT’S DAWN on the Indian Ocean when we board Zodiacs and zoom off into Lalang-gaddam Marine Park on northwestern Australia’s Kimberley coast. An ancient stone plateau, the nearly two-billion-year-old Yowjab (Montgomery Reef), rises in the receding tid
AFAR2 min read
For The Love Of Music
Robin Terry is the chair of the board of the Motown Museum, which honors the record label that started in Detroit in 1959. The Miracles, the Supremes, the Temptations, and Marvin Gaye are among the influential icons who made music here. Over the past

Related Books & Audiobooks