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Steve Madgwick

Steve Madgwick

Travel writer

Steve Madgwick is a journalist and travel writer.

The small central pool is an antidote to brutal humidity, and a chilled space to chat with staff from local villages.

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
Lily Beach is a picturesque, keyhole beach popular with families.

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
The Arrabelle at Vail Square has a mode-luxe feel.

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.

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Freakishly scenic … Cocos Keeling Islands.

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.

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Have America’s border protection staff become nicer in this post-COVID era?

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
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San Salvador’s historic centre.

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
Hobbitenango, surrounded by cloud-ringed Mount Dooms.

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
Roger Federer's quokka selfie in 2018 became a viral hit.

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
Blindingly white Ky Co beach, which an indeterminate person once called "Vietnam's Maldives".

Quy Nhon: Why you need to visit Vietnam's next big beach destination now

How can Quy Nhon still be a 'hidden gem' in such a compact and well-trodden place like Vietnam?

  • Steve Madgwick
Fifteen-plus hours in economy class is indeed a litmus test of humanity. Increasingly, a test that many fail.

Flying economy class turns us into selfish, angry and clueless people

If it were possible for a human being to magically mutate into a cow, it would happen high above us, around the 10-hour mark of a long-haul economy class flight.

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Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/traveller/by/steve-madgwick-h27fhh