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Into the depths of horror at Smokey Mountain

Travel Writer: Kate Lawlor meets the people who eke out an existence on a rancid Manilla dump

Iran, land of the thousand welcomes

Travel Writer: Genevieve Essa was struck by the warmth of the Iranian people

Gelatina, Gelatina... selling jelly for a living

Travel Writer: Everyone in Peru loves jelly – Ciara Lyster learns the tricks of the trade

At peace in a sacred temple in Laos

Travel Writer: Sam McGrath was spellbound by the hypnotic chants of the monks at the Wat Xieng Thong temple

A taxi ride to prison

Travel Writer: Ellie Brennan encounters the inmates of a Ghanaian prison

Running with the big beasts

Travel Writer: Emma Keogh ran in Kruger National Park and lived to tell the tale

A realisation in Auschwitz

Travel Writer: in the shade of an oak, Shane Kenneally understood what no guide could tell him

In China, they can’t stop taking pictures of me

Travel Writer: Laura Doyle feels she is being treated like a celebrity

Travelling the world, one murder-mystery at a time

Travel Writer: John Poole finds that detective novels are the perfect travel guides

Between the desert and the deep blue sea

Travel Writer: Lisa Mullee takes a journey at breakneck speed across La Guajira Peninsual in Colombia

La Paz: the home of magical realism

Travel Writer: A tour around the infamous San Pedro prison gave Conall Scollard a surreal view of the Bolivian city

Tehran: a city of arrested development

Travel Writer: Rachael Kealy found the Iranian capital to be a contrast between the cold regime and the warm locals

The warmth of shared loneliness

Travel Writer: Fearghal O’Nuallain makes an unlikely friendship in the Romanian countryside

Prague: A menopausal break

Travel Writer: Bernie Kirwan loses herself in the magical wonder of the Czech city

Truckin’ for Jesus, to Texas and beyond

Travel Writer: vast highways, signs for Jesus, fast food – Kate Duignan’s American road trip

Fear on the banks of the Bosphorus

Travel Writer: Aoife Kavanagh shadowed the Orient Express, from Paris to Istanbul

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