- Mount Pinatubo
Features: Asia, Remote Places, Volcanoes - Elevation 3,440- Namche
Features: Expeditions to Remote Places, explorers, NGO - Elevation 8,848 – Everest Shadow
Features: everest, Expeditions, mountaineering - Black Rose and Mongolian Bling
Features: film, Mongolia - The Stone Sentinel
Features: Expeditions to Remote Places, explorers - The Banzai Pipeline
Final Step to the North Pole
Photo credit: Martin Hartley Without harnessing every scintilla of my being to the task, I was unlikely to make it to the far end – the North Pole – alone and without outside assistance. For me it was a supreme challenge, and deliberately so. It presented the secular pilgrimage I sought, with its associated monastic...
The Urbane Nomads Empty Quarter Expedition 2012
A North-South crossing of the Empty Quarter through the eastern lobe, this expedition, which began in Al Ain, ended successfully in Salalah on the 28th March 2012, establishing Hajar Ali as the first woman to cross the Empty Quarter. Urbane Nomads is the sponsor of the expedition. Below are the day-to-day logs of travelling...
A bid to be first woman to cross the Empty Quarters
Date: 22nd March 2012 Where: Empty Quarters What: The Empty Quarters is the world’s largest sand desert spanning Abu Dhabi, Oman, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Who: Hajar Ali is the founder of Urbane Nomads, a travel company specializing in luxury travel to remote places. Route: Abu Dhabi(Al Ain) to Salalah. Will be going through the Umm...
10 Best Hotels with Horses
Or rather, as in some cases, best horse havens with a few, albeit well-designed rooms. Most are a good base for horseriding enthusiasts. Some are skewed towards polo. One’s a castle, another is only open to polo players and is on a by-invitation basis only. 10. Rohet Garh Bruce Chatwin and William Dalrymple were long-term...
Luxury Phinisi- Asmat Sailing
Luxury Phinisi- Sailing to Asmat “It is the desire to do something adventurous, at a time when frontiers, in the real sense of the word, are disappearing.”- Michael C. Rockefeller.” Photo Courtesy of Raja Laut September-mid November is a great period to sail through West Papua. Be it diving in the famed Raja Ampat or...
Mongolia with an Entourage.
Mongolia with an Entourage So there was that ‘Most Luxurious Trip in the World‘ created for 2 persons. If you prefer travelling with an entourage, this arrangement might suit you better. Who it’s for: A group of 25 persons, with a staff ratio of 1:4. This trip was designed for a group of serious falconers...
Luxury Expedition in the Empty Quarters
Luxury Expedition in the Empty Quarters Who it’s for: A corporate retreat for a group of 40-45 CEOs (with a projected number of 80 individuals, inclusive of spouses, attending) . The aim is to create a journey less ordinary for a group of well-travelled individuals in their 30s-40s. Background: The Empty Quarters, made famous by...
Hajar Ali
Hajar is the founder of Urbane Nomads, a travel company specializing in luxury adventure travel in remote, off-the-beaten trek destinations. Favourite destinations include Patagonia, Baltistan and the Burmese Himalayas. See Hajar’s contribution here:
Tsaatans
Tsaatans Image Courtesy of Hamid Sardar The legendary tsaatan reindeer herders in Mongolia. Nomadic by nature, the tsaatans of Mongolia
