Kelly Sobczak Articles

Good Morning, Beijing – China

The best welcome to China Kelly Sobczak could’ve r

Hospitality, the Chinese Way Part 2 – Yullin, China

Hospitality, the Chinese Way
Yullin, China
This wasn’t the plan. I was to be standing on the Great Wall, but instead I am singing “Yankee Doodle Dandy” to 150 Chinese students. Not only am I singing, but I am also marching in place. To top off the tune, a jaunty salute and an exaggerated bow are even [...]

Vultures and Voyeurs: A Tibetan Sky Burial – Tibet

Kelly Sobczak’s tale contains one dead guy, two me

Wet and Wild in Yangon – Myanmar

Kelly Sobczak is a helpless foreigner, accosted an

Back to Pakistan: A Traveler’s Tale (2 of 2) – Pakistan

Back to Pakistan: A Traveler’s Tale

Women in Altit

At Peshawar’s normally full Tourists’ Inn Motel, we hung out with the two other guests: Will, a 30-year-old New Yorker who was putting together a video about the tense times in Pakistan, and Charles, a 30-something Englishman who was driving from England to India in his 40-year-old Land [...]

Back to Pakistan: A Traveler’s Tale (1 of 2) – Pakistan

Experience a country as it was before the age of m

Fruity Pleasures – Sudan

Kelly Sobczak is a sexy woman wrapped in mangoes. Even if she doesn’t know how to do the wrapping on traditional Sudanese garb. But neither do the Sudanese.

Magical Mashhad – Iran

Rouposh? Check. Bedsheet? Check. Long underwear? C

Anger Against America – Tehran, Iran

Out of all her travels, American Kelly Sobczak has

Kelly Sobczak: BootsnAll Photojournalist

Kelly Sobczak
BootsnAll Photojournalist

Kelly, riding on top of a truck through Mago National Park, Ethiopia.

Kelly Sobczak traded in her mice-infested, overpriced New York City apartment that she shared with a wacky wannabe actress in March 2001 for a trip around the world. (Well, halfway around that is.)

With the mantra of “Thirty is too young to [...]