Saira Niazi

For as long as she can remember, Saira's loved wandering around, discovering new places, talking to strangers and recording her adventures. When she was in school she would often bunk off and end up exploring markets, museums, city streets and suburbs. She leads wandering tours, writes, and is Slow Ways' Community Story Lead.
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Six tips for walking on the Broads

Big skies, mystical marshes, winding waterways, and a ton of wildlife: the wondrous, expansive landscapes of Norfolk and Suffolk are a joy – and a challenge

Treading uneven ground

On solitude, slow ways and choosing to tread the path less travelled

“Spending time with dogs – it’s good for the soul!” Photographer Jasmine Pasha on the dogs’-eye-view of Slow Ways

We asked brilliant wildlife photographer Jasmine Pasha to train her camera on the most domesticated of creatures, to see what her camera might capture of their animal experience

How NOT to walk!

From wrestling with kissing gates and walking into people, to not staying hydrated and getting lost in the dark, here are some things that make me a less-than-perfect walker

Wanderers #2: Ingrina Shieh

Ingrina Shieh, volunteer London National Park City Ranger and passionate multi-day hiker, talks about confidence, women's safety, city vs country, and her solo 15-route Slow Way trip

A walk with Dima

As part of Refugee Week, Saira joined Dima Aktaa, an amputee, runner and aspiring interior designer, on a Slow Ways journey from her home in Flitwick to Amthill

Dogs using Slow Ways: the story behind the project

How to tell another creature's story? Here are our ethical wranglings as we tried to work out how to represent a whole other view of Slow Ways routes, through a dog's perspective

Bradford, Shipley & beyond: a Slow Ways journey

Saira spent some time in West Yorkshire, walking Slow Ways and getting to know amazing local people and places in the process