The Rough Guide Women Travel 4 A Rough Guide Special
by Davies, Miranda; Jansz, NataniaEdition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-12-06
Publisher(s): DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary
In this latest, completely revised Women Travel anthology, Rough Guides present a whole new crew of writers, journalists, travellers, dreamers and escapists, each with a journey to share and a tale to inspire. Featuring more than 80 adventures around the world, Women Travel tells you what it's like to: backpack around India with your mother in tow; hitch up with a shepherd in Spain; set up the ultimate writers' retreat on the icefields of Antarctica; hang out with hippies in the Australian rainforest; be crowned Queen Mother of an African village; have a girls' night out in the Kalahari Desert; and sweat behind the scenes at a Caribbean carnival.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xii |
| Afghanistan | |
| Welding wheelchairs under the gaze of the Taliban | p. 3 |
| Albania | |
| Hosts and refugees | p. 10 |
| Antarctica | |
| Terra incognita: Wooville 1 | p. 17 |
| Argentina | |
| Bad Times in Buenos Aires | p. 26 |
| Australia | |
| Welcome to the Rainbow Gathering | p. 38 |
| In you own backyard | p. 45 |
| The Flying Postman | p. 53 |
| Bangladesh | |
| A woman's place | p. 59 |
| Bhutan | |
| Big Mother beckons | p. 66 |
| Boliva | |
| The importance of seeing Ernesto | p. 74 |
| Botswana | |
| Stranded in the Kalahari | p. 81 |
| Brazil | |
| The luckiest woman in Rio | p. 86 |
| Speaking in tongues | p. 95 |
| Burkina Faso | |
| Welcome to the land of whole people | p. 101 |
| Cambodia | |
| A surface serenity | p. 108 |
| Canada | |
| A sneaking civic pride | p. 114 |
| Hitching through the Yukon | p. 119 |
| China | |
| A homegirl hits Beijing | p. 124 |
| Flying beneath the radar | p. 130 |
| Friendships confused | p. 139 |
| Colombia | |
| At home with the street children | p. 150 |
| Cuba | |
| Falling among friends | p. 159 |
| Ecuador | |
| Islands of the mind | p. 169 |
| England | |
| A Celt abroad in London | p. 182 |
| Estonia | |
| In the shadow of the bear | p. 189 |
| France | |
| Whose vacation is it anyway? | p. 195 |
| Cycling on the French Riviera | p. 201 |
| Gambia | |
| Love through open eyes | p. 208 |
| Ghana | |
| Hard currency | p. 214 |
| Queen for a day | p. 223 |
| Greece | |
| A hairy tale | p. 232 |
| A Lesbian holiday | p. 238 |
| Guatemala | |
| Faces at a roadblock | p. 244 |
| A positive taste of hardship | p. 249 |
| India | |
| Innocence and experience | p. 257 |
| Carolyn came too | p. 262 |
| Stopping to learn | p. 269 |
| Indonesia | |
| The Kuta cowboys | p. 276 |
| Caught in an earthquake | p. 284 |
| Iran | |
| Learning to love my chador | p. 292 |
| Israel | |
| A kibbutz with a view | p. 299 |
| Italy | |
| A student in the city of chic | p. 307 |
| Jamaica | |
| Journey to yard: a Jamaican cultural experience | p. 313 |
| Ruff spots and rent-a-dreads | p. 318 |
| Japan | |
| Boxing with shadow puppets | p. 326 |
| Mama-san's babies | p. 332 |
| Kazakstan | |
| New tenants on Mametova Street | p. 340 |
| Laos | |
| A sisterly venture | p. 345 |
| Lebanon | |
| Start of the holiday season | p. 351 |
| Libya | |
| Trailed in Tripoli | p. 357 |
| Malawi | |
| A sista and a mzungu | p. 365 |
| Malaysia | |
| A natural high | p. 370 |
| Mali | |
| Eyeless in Mali | p. 378 |
| Mauritania | |
| On the road with Fati Matou | p. 387 |
| Mexico | |
| Reality | p. 394 |
| Mongolia | |
| Dancing in the village of delight | p. 405 |
| Morocco | |
| Fear and shopping in Chefchaouen | p. 412 |
| Running through Fes | p. 421 |
| Nepal | |
| Living Goddess | p. 427 |
| A sociable climber | p. 436 |
| New Zealand | |
| Champagne at Welcome Flat | p. 445 |
| Norway | |
| Cod and cloudberries | p. 450 |
| Pakistan | |
| Hotel Holiday | p. 457 |
| "But madam, who drives the motorcycle?" | p. 464 |
| Papua New Guinea | |
| Islands in the clouds | p. 471 |
| Peru | |
| The mild bunch on the Inca Trail | p. 479 |
| Poland | |
| Rubble and life | p. 485 |
| Russia | |
| Back to Moscow | p. 495 |
| Scotland | |
| Northern rocks | p. 502 |
| South Africa | |
| Bussing them in | p. 510 |
| Jazz in the city | p. 515 |
| Spain | |
| The foreigner and the shepherd | p. 521 |
| Flamenco fever | p. 529 |
| Sweden | |
| Island fantasies | p. 535 |
| Jazz in the snow | p. 538 |
| Syria | |
| The Gates of Damascus | p. 546 |
| Tanzania | |
| The school that we built | p. 554 |
| Thailand | |
| Monkey brain | p. 560 |
| A famiiar charm | p. 565 |
| Tibet | |
| Monastery baby | p. 574 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | |
| "Dominique's a mas maker, not a lady!" | p. 582 |
| "A funny old place" | p. 589 |
| USA | |
| Las Vegas, in denial | p. 596 |
| "Yaow baby! Turn that up!" | p. 610 |
| A trip to the "last frontier" | p. 615 |
| Uzbekistan | |
| Mosques, ministries, and the "Stairway to Heaven" | p. 624 |
| Venezuela | |
| By dugout to the Yanomami | p. 629 |
| Yemen | |
| Behind Yemen's veil | p. 635 |
| Zimbabwe | |
| A term at Eaglesjail | p. 642 |
| Further reading | |
| Read on. Anthologies | p. 651 |
| Read on. Journeys and other places | p. 653 |
| Travel she wrote: the top 25 | p. 656 |
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