World’s most welcoming countries
International hospitality from Iceland to Bosnia
The Rizk DBR2 on the road in California. (Justin Leighton/LPI)
Driving across California, some 6,000 miles from home, ensconced in a pale blue Chrysler Town&Country minivan is not the time to be engaging in a bout of crippling self-doubt. But it becomes clear, in conversation with photographer Justin, that we have committed ourselves to a trip across the world to drive a car nobody has ever heard of, in a place miles from anywhere, across an inhospitable national park, on the basis of a website and several late-night emails.
International hospitality from Iceland to Bosnia
Book a room fit for a king or queen
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