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Tonga’s gentle giants - Kris Madden

Swimming with humpback whales is one of life’s most humbling experiences. Tonga is one of only three places in the world where it is legal to swim with these magnificent creatures. This story provides a first-person account of coming face-to-face with whales in their environment and how the whale-watching industry is helping to save them from extinction.

Destiny in a leopard skin coat – Kris Madden

I am sitting cross-legged on the floor, while a woman wearing a leopard skin cloak and antelope skin hat conjures up her ancestors to so she can foretell my destiny. I’m finding it hard to not to giggle as she summons the spirits by twirling a dead branch in a bucket of water and detergent in the middle of her lounge room.

This story describes the experience of travelling through the black township of Grahamstown, South Africa, and the government’s goal to reduce poverty and unemployment through tourism.

Confessions of an Antarctic tour guide – Kris Madden

It’s the coldest, driest, windiest and most inhospitable place on earth. So why then, would anyone want to go to there?

The reasons people travel to Antarctica are as varied as the individual. For many, the frozen south conjures images of the heroic age of exploration and they go to satisfy a long-standing fascination. For others, it is the culmination of a lifetime of travel and their last grand adventure; and there are some who go because they are simply a little bit crazy.

This story is a first-person account of working as a crew member on board a Russian ice-breaker, and describes the people, wildlife, and experience of travelling to the end of the Earth.

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The Adventure Atlas of Australia

Kris Madden is the author of the chapter on Whale Watching in Australia for The Australian Adventure Atlas published in 2007 by New Holland.

Lonely Planet

Kris Madden is a contributor to Lonely Planet’s first book on responsible travel titled Code Green: Trips of a lifetime that won’t cost the Earth.