MARK'S TRAVEL WRITER/FOTOG COURSES Traveling with Mark, I stayed with Sea Gypsies in a tiny village on a virtually unvisited island off the coast of Thailand. On the jungle island of Sumatra, I climbed a volcanic mountain whose sacred relevance to Batak culture - still a cannibalistic one at the end of the 19th cen… Read more

MARK'S TRAVEL WRITER/FOTOG COURSES Traveling with Mark, I stayed with Sea Gypsies in a tiny village on a virtually unvisited island off the coast of Thailand. On the jungle island of Sumatra, I climbed a volcanic mountain whose sacred relevance to Batak culture - still a cannibalistic one at the end of the 19th century - goes back several hundred years. Few, if any, tourists have ever been to top of Mount Pusuk Buhit. Apart from being a freelance photojournalist, Mark offers would-be writers a view from the inside - a hands-on, results-oriented program that will dramatically improve your potential for success in the travel writing business. Many training programs tell you how to break into the business; this one will show you how to do it, step by step. Mark shared with me world-class, practitioner-based information, techniques, tools of the trade - and allowed me a rare peek through the bizarre shadows and unobscured windows of his daily existence, far removed from the rat-race. A fascinating world of deadlines and back rooms but no cubicles, where the angle is pursued to the very heights… and depths of humanity itself. Sound like the stuff drugs are made of? Well, you are on the right track. This course will spare no doubt on why travel journalism is the dimly lit, highly competitive jungle that it is. Thankfully though, the course will show you that the sun also shines in the Amazon. I highly recommend this ride. *