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🎙️“Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — @PaulSalopek
Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below.
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/bRjKvP2Xg3
Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below.
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/bRjKvP2Xg3
July 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🎙️“Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — @PaulSalopek
Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below.
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/bRjKvP2Xg3
Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below.
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/bRjKvP2Xg3
“‘I don’t like this place,’ announces Jang Yikweon. We’re hiking in a pretty little valley in rural South Korea, Jang & I, traversing a storybook landscape of electric green rice paddies, cozy farming hamlets, mossy hill forests.” — @PaulSalopek Read more: https://t.co/BBiV25rNlD
Silence of the Frogs
Wading Through South Korea with a champion amphibian whisperer.
outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“‘I don’t like this place,’ announces Jang Yikweon. We’re hiking in a pretty little valley in rural South Korea, Jang & I, traversing a storybook landscape of electric green rice paddies, cozy farming hamlets, mossy hill forests.” — @PaulSalopek Read more: https://t.co/BBiV25rNlD
🎙️“Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — @PaulSalopek
Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below. 🎧
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/GEtMVcRd6S
Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below. 🎧
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/GEtMVcRd6S
July 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🎙️“Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — @PaulSalopek
Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below. 🎧
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/GEtMVcRd6S
Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below. 🎧
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar https://t.co/GEtMVcRd6S
“I’ve been offered shelter [&] food. People give me their stories, which are precious, right?... I’ve written: I wake up, & the word that comes to mind is ‘yes.’ Yes, I’ll do this another day.” @PaulSalopek (Begins @ 1:39:26 min) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0klm4lv @BBCSounds @BBCRadioLondon
July 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“I’ve been offered shelter [&] food. People give me their stories, which are precious, right?... I’ve written: I wake up, & the word that comes to mind is ‘yes.’ Yes, I’ll do this another day.” @PaulSalopek (Begins @ 1:39:26 min) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0klm4lv @BBCSounds @BBCRadioLondon
🔈 “Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — @PaulSalopek
🎙️ Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast.
Listen to the conversation here: https://t.co/2eer0PrKpo 🎧 https://t.co/jEnir4ukqR
🎙️ Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast.
Listen to the conversation here: https://t.co/2eer0PrKpo 🎧 https://t.co/jEnir4ukqR
Episode #311: Where the Streets Have No Name — Insight Myanmar
Chronicling acts of survival, mapping the resilience of communities, and portraying the spirit of protest
insightmyanmar.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🔈 “Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — @PaulSalopek
🎙️ Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast.
Listen to the conversation here: https://t.co/2eer0PrKpo 🎧 https://t.co/jEnir4ukqR
🎙️ Paul recently joined the @InsightMyanmar Podcast.
Listen to the conversation here: https://t.co/2eer0PrKpo 🎧 https://t.co/jEnir4ukqR
🎙️ “That’s what human beings are . . . we kind of have these qualities of mud within us.” — @PaulSalopek to @carolynbeeler. Listen or read along: https://t.co/zS3PvpJiXs This story is part of an ongoing series produced by @TheWorld in collab with Out of Eden Walk & @InsideNatGeo.
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🎙️ “That’s what human beings are . . . we kind of have these qualities of mud within us.” — @PaulSalopek to @carolynbeeler. Listen or read along: https://t.co/zS3PvpJiXs This story is part of an ongoing series produced by @TheWorld in collab with Out of Eden Walk & @InsideNatGeo.
“I started to think about what is mud after all, right? It’s earth, & it’s water & it’s motion. . . . Mud can’t just settle, or it turns into kind of stone after a while. It requires tides, requires movement. And I thought: That’s who we are. That is what life is.” — @PaulSalopek https:/...
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I started to think about what is mud after all, right? It’s earth, & it’s water & it’s motion. . . . Mud can’t just settle, or it turns into kind of stone after a while. It requires tides, requires movement. And I thought: That’s who we are. That is what life is.” — @PaulSalopek https:/...
“Let it be known that I’m something of a connoisseur of convenience stores. This goes way back.” — @PaulSalopek
✍️ Read the latest dispatch from the trail in South Korea: https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-02-cellophane-oasis #EdenWalk
✍️ Read the latest dispatch from the trail in South Korea: https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-02-cellophane-oasis #EdenWalk
Cellophane Oasis
Walking the modern Silk Roads through Asia, where caravanserais are reincarnated as convenience stores.
outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“Let it be known that I’m something of a connoisseur of convenience stores. This goes way back.” — @PaulSalopek
✍️ Read the latest dispatch from the trail in South Korea: https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-02-cellophane-oasis #EdenWalk
✍️ Read the latest dispatch from the trail in South Korea: https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-02-cellophane-oasis #EdenWalk
🎙️🔉 Paul recently joined @TVNaga01 @bbc5live @BBCSounds for a conversation about Out of Eden Walk. Listen to the conversation, which begins at 02:12:55 mins, at the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027jsx @PaulSalopek #EdenWalk
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🎙️🔉 Paul recently joined @TVNaga01 @bbc5live @BBCSounds for a conversation about Out of Eden Walk. Listen to the conversation, which begins at 02:12:55 mins, at the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027jsx @PaulSalopek #EdenWalk
“A journey of 38,000-kilometers begins with a single step.”
🎙 Paul recently joined @radionz to talk about the Out of Eden Walk journey.
Listen to the conversation, “Retracing the first human migration,” at the link. 🎧
https://t.co/DN9v5LHvKF
🎙 Paul recently joined @radionz to talk about the Out of Eden Walk journey.
Listen to the conversation, “Retracing the first human migration,” at the link. 🎧
https://t.co/DN9v5LHvKF
Retracing the first human migration
A journey of 38,000-kilometers begins with a single step. 12 years ago this month, journalist Paul Salopek set off on a journey that follows the first human migration out of Africa, starting in the great Rift Valley in Ethiopia where the first human fossils were found with plans to end at Tierra del Fuego at the Southern Tip of South America. He calls the journey the "Out of Eden" walk with the support of the National Geographic Society. He sends dispatches from the road that tell the story of each place he goes. He speaks to Jesse today from somewhere in Japan.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“A journey of 38,000-kilometers begins with a single step.”
🎙 Paul recently joined @radionz to talk about the Out of Eden Walk journey.
Listen to the conversation, “Retracing the first human migration,” at the link. 🎧
https://t.co/DN9v5LHvKF
🎙 Paul recently joined @radionz to talk about the Out of Eden Walk journey.
Listen to the conversation, “Retracing the first human migration,” at the link. 🎧
https://t.co/DN9v5LHvKF
Families gather clams alongside the Daehang-ri shell mound, a prehistoric camping site near Saemangeum Seawall. Humans have harvested in the region since the Stone Age—a lifeway largely erased by a gigantic wetlands conversion: https://t.co/RNwi1LamHs 📷 Youngrae Kim @PaulSalopek
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Families gather clams alongside the Daehang-ri shell mound, a prehistoric camping site near Saemangeum Seawall. Humans have harvested in the region since the Stone Age—a lifeway largely erased by a gigantic wetlands conversion: https://t.co/RNwi1LamHs 📷 Youngrae Kim @PaulSalopek
“Mudflats are nature’s wallflowers: superficially charmless but with ecologically rich inner lives. They are also quite rare.” -— @PaulSalopek Read “Mud Mausoleum,” Paul’s latest dispatch from the trail: https://t.co/RNwi1LamHs Photo by Youngrae Kim. 📍 Saemangeum, South Korea
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“Mudflats are nature’s wallflowers: superficially charmless but with ecologically rich inner lives. They are also quite rare.” -— @PaulSalopek Read “Mud Mausoleum,” Paul’s latest dispatch from the trail: https://t.co/RNwi1LamHs Photo by Youngrae Kim. 📍 Saemangeum, South Korea
🔈🎙️ “I walk with local people who add their own voices, their own insights, and therefore, it’s constantly being refreshed; the journey is constantly being made new.” — @PaulSalopek 🎧📖 Listen or read along with @TheWorld: https://t.co/vQwAhTIDP3 @MarcoWerman @StephenProducer
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🔈🎙️ “I walk with local people who add their own voices, their own insights, and therefore, it’s constantly being refreshed; the journey is constantly being made new.” — @PaulSalopek 🎧📖 Listen or read along with @TheWorld: https://t.co/vQwAhTIDP3 @MarcoWerman @StephenProducer
“I struck my first ocean in 12 years at the coast of Dongbei—what used to be called Manchuria—in the frozen NE of China, almost a year ago. Stuffed inside a parka, I bent to pick up the burnished shingle on an empty shore.” —@PaulSalopek https://t.co/DqpMmmyfAa 📷 Zhang Qing Hua
July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I struck my first ocean in 12 years at the coast of Dongbei—what used to be called Manchuria—in the frozen NE of China, almost a year ago. Stuffed inside a parka, I bent to pick up the burnished shingle on an empty shore.” —@PaulSalopek https://t.co/DqpMmmyfAa 📷 Zhang Qing Hua
🔈“Our ancestors took more than 50,000 years, after kind of rambling out of Africa, with no destination in mind, right — this is before destinations had been invented — to reach the tip of South America. I might do it in 15 or 16 years.” —@PaulSalopek to @MarcoWerman on @TheWorld https://t.co/Dw...
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🔈“Our ancestors took more than 50,000 years, after kind of rambling out of Africa, with no destination in mind, right — this is before destinations had been invented — to reach the tip of South America. I might do it in 15 or 16 years.” —@PaulSalopek to @MarcoWerman on @TheWorld https://t.co/Dw...
From Japan, the Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon. @PaulSalopek is on a foot journey across the world. He provides an extraordinary record of humanity at a new millennium. Read more here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/impact/article/paul-salopek-explorer-story
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
From Japan, the Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon. @PaulSalopek is on a foot journey across the world. He provides an extraordinary record of humanity at a new millennium. Read more here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/impact/article/paul-salopek-explorer-story
“I’ll plumb these antique seafaring migrations in the years ahead, as I inch my way to the Out of Eden Walk’s final ocean: the bitter Antarctic waters off Tierra del Fuego.” — @PaulSalopek Read Paul’s most recent dispatch, “Bookend Oceans” here: https://t.co/DqpMmmyfAa
Bookend Oceans
A 12-year walk between big waters.
outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“I’ll plumb these antique seafaring migrations in the years ahead, as I inch my way to the Out of Eden Walk’s final ocean: the bitter Antarctic waters off Tierra del Fuego.” — @PaulSalopek Read Paul’s most recent dispatch, “Bookend Oceans” here: https://t.co/DqpMmmyfAa
🔈From @emergence_zine: “This week, we return to our interview with journalist @PaulSalopek, who, for the last decade, has been on an epic journey retracing the migration pathway of some of the earliest humans out of Africa’s Rift Valley.” 🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/27m0KGQRSW
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🔈From @emergence_zine: “This week, we return to our interview with journalist @PaulSalopek, who, for the last decade, has been on an epic journey retracing the migration pathway of some of the earliest humans out of Africa’s Rift Valley.” 🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/27m0KGQRSW
“I struck my first ocean in 12 years at the coast of Dongbei—what used to be called Manchuria—in the frozen northeast of China, almost a year ago. Stuffed inside a parka, I bent to pick up the burnished shingle on an empty shore.” —@PaulSalopek Read more: https://t.co/DqpMmmyfAa
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“I struck my first ocean in 12 years at the coast of Dongbei—what used to be called Manchuria—in the frozen northeast of China, almost a year ago. Stuffed inside a parka, I bent to pick up the burnished shingle on an empty shore.” —@PaulSalopek Read more: https://t.co/DqpMmmyfAa
✍️ “The Paleolithic bands of Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers I’m following didn’t stop at the blue wall here, of course. Neither will I. In the spring, I hope to board a cargo ship from Japan to Alaska.” — @PaulSalopek Read “Bookend Oceans” here: https://t.co/DqpMmmyfAa #EdenWalk
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
✍️ “The Paleolithic bands of Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers I’m following didn’t stop at the blue wall here, of course. Neither will I. In the spring, I hope to board a cargo ship from Japan to Alaska.” — @PaulSalopek Read “Bookend Oceans” here: https://t.co/DqpMmmyfAa #EdenWalk
Thank you to @TheEconomist for joining us on the Out of Eden Walk trail in Japan. https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/1874221502477791430
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Thank you to @TheEconomist for joining us on the Out of Eden Walk trail in Japan. https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/1874221502477791430
A Korean battlefield along the Yeongnamdaero trail is commemorated by giant statues of Harry Truman and Rhee Syngman, allies in the country’s brutal civil conflict in 1950. ✍️ Read “Scholar’s Trail” here: https://t.co/UfLiH52YOi 📷 Photo by @PaulSalopek
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A Korean battlefield along the Yeongnamdaero trail is commemorated by giant statues of Harry Truman and Rhee Syngman, allies in the country’s brutal civil conflict in 1950. ✍️ Read “Scholar’s Trail” here: https://t.co/UfLiH52YOi 📷 Photo by @PaulSalopek
“Being constantly on the go for over a decade . . . that’s a lot of places to look for a place to sleep. In South Korea, @PaulSalopek encountered. . . the ‘love motel’ — rented by the hour. A love motel is precisely what one may think, but it also is not.” https://t.co/0eyT0hzgHV
Out of Eden Walk: South Korea’s love motels - The World from PRX
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek talks about his experience with South Korea's so-called "love motels," short-term rental hotels primarily used by couples for intimate encounters. In a country with a severe housing shortage, these motels provide privacy for young people who live by necessity with their parents. As Salopek discovered on his walk across the country, these budget rooms are also convenient for travelers.
theworld.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“Being constantly on the go for over a decade . . . that’s a lot of places to look for a place to sleep. In South Korea, @PaulSalopek encountered. . . the ‘love motel’ — rented by the hour. A love motel is precisely what one may think, but it also is not.” https://t.co/0eyT0hzgHV
“Wearing a summery blue dress, pearls, & open-toed mules—& holding a parasol against the brutal sun—Kim leads the way up a restored, 2-km stretch of the Great Yeongnam Road.” —@PaulSalopek https://t.co/UfLiH52qYK Below: Walking Partner Lee Junseok & guide Kim Gwinam 📷 P. Salopek
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“Wearing a summery blue dress, pearls, & open-toed mules—& holding a parasol against the brutal sun—Kim leads the way up a restored, 2-km stretch of the Great Yeongnam Road.” —@PaulSalopek https://t.co/UfLiH52qYK Below: Walking Partner Lee Junseok & guide Kim Gwinam 📷 P. Salopek
“When I’m walking I’m thinking about writing. I’m thinking about a problem. About a paragraph or how something doesn’t work in a story.” — @PaulSalopek Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon: https://t.co/tvorM2hU8e Photo courtesy Paul Salopek.
July 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“When I’m walking I’m thinking about writing. I’m thinking about a problem. About a paragraph or how something doesn’t work in a story.” — @PaulSalopek Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon: https://t.co/tvorM2hU8e Photo courtesy Paul Salopek.