Leslie Nevison
Biographical Info:
Leslie is a freelance travel writer who specializes in stories about independent travel, culture and the environment. Committed travelers, she and her husband of 23 years first went overseas to live in 1990. They have since called seven countries home - Turkey, the Sultanate of Oman, Singapore (twice), Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Greece, and Congo-Brazzaville. Leslie has traveled through another thirty.
Since 2005, Leslie has been leading individuals, private groups of families or friends, and special interest groups such as photographers and birders, on tours of Tanzania. For more information, visit the Mama Tembo Tours site, or read the following:
Mama Tembo Times, October 2007
Mama Tembo Times, December 2007
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Leslie Nevison's Recent Contributions
Beyond Trees: Malaysia's Endau-Rompin National Park
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I am earthbound in Malaysia's Endau-Rompin National Park, a hushed and darkened rainforest more ancient than the jungles of Africa and South America. I have come to hike and camp for four days among...
Destinations:
Malaysia |
Pahang
Topics:
Culture |
Travel
Meditating in Southern Thailand
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Every night the elderly security guard sweeps carefully and at length around my Singapore apartment building, curiously absorbed in a humble task that no one requires of him. I think of this man now...
Destinations:
Ko Phangan |
Thailand
Topics:
Culture |
Travel
Two Days in Ha Nam Ninh Province
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The British writer Graham Greene witnessed a battle from the bell tower of Phat Diem Cathedral. The year was 1951 and Phat Diem, the Catholic diocese, was located 120 kilometers southeast of Hanoi on...
Destinations:
Hanoi |
Vietnam
Topics:
Culture |
People |
Architecture
Indonesia's Bawean Island: The Magic of Faith
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Throughout the Malay world, there survives a belief in the occult, the practice of which is the peaceful syncretism of local animism and the less orthodox Islam brought by Arab traders seven hundred...
Destinations:
Indonesia |
Bawean
Topics:
Culture |
Travel
The Extraordinary Sultanate of Brunei
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It is possible not to recognize the uniqueness of a destination. I might have continued to overlook Brunei, hidden as it is on the island of Borneo between two East Malaysian states and Indonesia, if...
