Deep in the heart of the jungle, one man uses ancient building skills to craft a breathtaking mud villa with an underground swimming pool, twisting water slide, and a working water well built entirely ...

Clad in our rattiest swimsuits, my friend Tanya and I dug our hands into a bulbous terra-cotta urn and pulled out gobs of clean, wet clay, which we then slathered all over ourselves until we were the ...

I love a bit of mud. From wallowing in the mud baths of Nha Trang in Vietnam to slathering myself in the stuff on the banks of the Dead Sea in Jordan, if there’s rejuvenating dirt to bathe in, I’m ...