Steve Madgwick
Travel writer
Steve Madgwick is a journalist and travel writer.
Swallowed by white, this is a different sort of hike
In Japan, but not for skiing, it’s amazing what comes into focus when you’re entirely swallowed by white.
- Steve Madgwick
This safari offers a daring level of immersion, without the truck scrums
A hippo smacks her lips grazing three metres from my tent at 3am. At campfire breakfast, a leopard breezily strides past.
- Steve Madgwick
You won’t sleep in this gloriously alive jungle, but you won’t care
There’s an exquisitely thin line between creatures and creature comforts in the Peruvian Amazon.
- Steve Madgwick
Beyond the obvious, this Australian island remains an enigma to most
Most Australians only know three things about Christmas Island: it has lots of crabs, a notorious detention centre and is closer to Bali than our mainland.
- Steve Madgwick
Of America’s two most famous ski towns, which one is the best?
We put two of North America’s glitziest ski towns up against each other in an alpine battle royale.
- Steve Madgwick
Australia’s most far-flung and freakishly scenic archipelago
I’ve been advised to “duel to the death” for a window seat on this “cinematic” flight to this little-known Australian territory.
- Steve Madgwick
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- USA
My shocking arrival in the US: Border security was nice to me
Passing through the borders at US airports used to give me nightmares, but something seems to have changed. Or perhaps I have.
- Steve Madgwick
This notorious country now deserves to be on your travel radar
Previously “the murder capital of the world”, this Central American country is now rated no more dangerous than Bali or Thailand.
- Steve Madgwick
Oh Lord: I visited a bizarre, fake Hobbit-theme park in a cloud forest
Who wouldn’t, given the chance, travel to a kooky cloud-forest amusement park trying its heart out to authentically rip off a movie-set-cum-theme park thousands of kilometres away?
- Steve Madgwick
Rottnest Island quokkas: The big problem with selfies with 'the world's happiest animal'
Tennis stars have turned selfies with 'the world's happiest animal' into a must-have for visitors to WA's Rottnest Island. Is that really a good thing?
- Steve Madgwick
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