Mark Eveleigh has been a full-time magazine writer, photographer and author for almost 30 years. A British citizen, he grew up in Ghana and Nigeria and has spent more years based in Spain than he ever did in UK. 

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He's travelled frequently on assignments in Extremadura and in 2022 he walked 350km across the province as part of a much longer trek. Vagabond (the book about that 1,225km solo hike from Gibraltar to Estaca de Bares) was ranked among the '6 top travel reads for 2024' by National Geographic. 

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A fellow of Royal Geographical Society, Mark has published more than 900 full-length travel features for more than 120 international publications, including BBC Wildlife, BBC Earth, BBC Travel, CNN Travel, National Geographic, Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, Boston Globe & Travel Africa.​​ He's also contributed to Lonely Planet guidebooks in Spain, Tanzania, Borneo, Ecuador, Madagascar and for several books on Indonesia.