🎙️“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

Silence of the Frogs Wading Through South Korea with a champion amphibian whisperer.

“‘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

“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

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

🔈 “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

🎙️ “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:/...

Cellophane Oasis Walking the modern Silk Roads through Asia, where caravanserais are reincarnated as convenience stores.

“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: outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-02-celloph... #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

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.

“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

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

🔈🎙️ “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

Out of Eden Walk: A 12-year walk between oceans - The World from PRX National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out of Eden Walk, tracing humankind's journey out of Africa, has crossed 21 countries, some 14,200 miles on foot from the Middle Eastern shores of the Red Sea to the Pacific Rim of Japan. Host Marco Werman speaks with Salopek as he begins the 13th year of his global trek.

“I’m moving pretty steadily in one direction. They were going in circles. They were going backward. They were going sideways because they were looking for resources. They’re hunters and gatherers.” — @PaulSalopek

Listen or read along here: https://t.co/vQwAhTJbEB #EdenWalk

🔈“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: www.nationalgeographic.com/impact/article/paul-salo...

Bookend Oceans A 12-year walk between big waters.

“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

“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

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

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.

“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

“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.

Paul Salopek is on a foot journey across the world. He provides an extraordinary record of humanity at a new millennium From Japan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon.

“The work is the work,” [@PaulSalopek] says. “The studio is between your ears, the four chambers of your heart. That’s the only space that matters. Everything else is negotiable.”

From Japan, the Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon: https://t.co/tvorM2hU8e

“Imagine having a job where for 11 years all you had to do was think and feel. Not just about what’s happening around you, but yourself and your role in the landscape and what you’re moving through. Those are the things I try to share in writing.” —@PaulSalopek #EdenWalk

Paul Salopek is on a foot journey across the world. He provides an extraordinary record of humanity at a new millennium From Japan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon.

“I feel the complex questions are the ones that deserve my life. Not to become a guru, because I don’t have answers. I just have questions.” —@PaulSalopek

Happy 12th anniversary to the Out of Eden Walk!

Read the full story here: https://t.co/tvorM2hU8e

@InsideNatGeo @NatGeo

Scholar’s Trail Lost and found while walking South Korea’s old imperial road.

“We are walking, Lee and I, along the same general route as the ancient [Yeongnamdaero] road: a jiggly, 650-kilometer-long transect from Seoul to Busan. Yet the famous pathway is elusive.” —@PaulSalopek

Read “Scholar’s Trail” here: https://t.co/UfLiH52qYK #EdenWalk