Marita Bester
Marita's Substack is a space for thoughtful essays and contemporary insights on travel, culture, and the environment.
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Packing a Library – Part Three: Trains, Street Food and the Modern Traveller
In the previous parts of this series, the writers arrived by steamship. But Anthony Bourdain and Paul Theroux inhabited different worlds. Bourdain usually arrived with a camera crew. Paul Theroux preferred trains.
By the time Theroux set o...
Packing a Library: Part Two: Hotels, Verandas and the Stories They Inspired
A colonial-style verandah - Photo Credit Pexels Free Photos
It’s funny to think that long before cafés filled with laptops and co-working spaces, travelling writers had their own version. It was the grand hotels of Southeast Asia—Raffles i...
Packing a Library: A Literary Journey Through Southeast Asia
Years ago, I found a copy of Shantaram in a bookshop in Kathmandu. It was far too heavy to carry around Nepal, yet I carried it everywhere. As I wandered through temples, mountain villages and crowded streets, I found myself drawn to Gregor...
Walking Through Winter
Although I have never been much of a fan of winter, these past few months have affected me in ways I hadn’t expected. As the days grew shorter, I found myself returning to an old love: reading and writing poetry.
I also returned to a favou...
The Naga Fireballs: Where Myth Meets the Mekong
The Mekong River - photo taken in Vientiane
During my years living and working in Southeast Asia, one of my few regrets is that I never attended the Naga Fireball Festival. However, I encountered the Mekong River many times during my trave...
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Marita Bester is a cultural/ travel writer and columnist. After spending a decade based in Bangkok she returned to SA in August 2025. She is currently based near Cape Town and devides her time between South Africa and Sout East Asia.
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