Stories from a year of traveling
As our stay in Lifuwu, Malawi came to an end we started to relate to our next big adventure: Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro — Africa’s tallest mountain, and the tallest free standing mountain in the world. Mt. Kilimanjaro is located in Northern Tanzania — some 1200 km from Lifuwu. So the very first challenge was to …
Almost halfway through our year long trip we headed to Malawi to spend 5 weeks as volunteers in the small village of Lifuwu just at the shore of Lake Malawi. We work with help2kids, a Swiss NGO, and in just 5 weeks we have experienced quite a lot! So prepare for a very long blog …
After arriving in Malawi we soon made our way to Lifuwu, the small village where we are going to volunteer for five weeks. More on that later. What we want to share with you now is the very unique experience we had at a small safari lodge near Liwonde National Park in southern Malawi. One …
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After more than four months in Asia we have moved on to Africa, where we have two main appointments: Five weeks as volunteers in Malawi and an attempt to trek Mt. Kilimajaro i Tanzania. But before we devoted ourselves to the ruralness of a small village in Malawi we decided to hit some of Africa’s …
Our time in Asia has come to an end, and we are ready to move on for new adventures in Africa. However, our last few hours in China took an unexpected turn. Let us start by saying that we are totally okay, we just want to share that traveling contains a whole lot of different …
Besides our walk around Mt. Kailash, our aim for visiting Tibet was also to better understand the strong spiritual power of this high-altitude region so far from everything else. After meeting pilgrims prostrating around Mt. Kailash our curiosity was even bigger — but we have to disappoint you, we have not found many answers. We …
We had hardly put down our backpacks in Syabru Besi before our Tibet adventures began. While we had been without WiFi in the Langtang Valley our co-travellers had been emailing quite a bit — and it turned out that one of them was already in Syabru Besi. We met with him for lunch, were we …
When we were planning our trip back in Denmark we did not plan to spend much time in Nepal — we just needed to go to Kathmandu to have the documents for our Tibet tour sorted. However, as we have learned by now, things tend to change when you are travelling for a while 😉 …
With only two weeks to explore Kyrgyzstan we wanted to explore the Karakol area near Lake Issyk-Kul. But before that we needed a few days to relax after the amazing weeks in Tajikistan 😴 It turned out that Karakol is like a trekking mecca for backpackers, and for the first time in a long time …
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After the Wakhan Valley we had one last adventure planned for Tajikistan. We wanted to go to Lake Bulunkul on the Pamir Highway and walk along the old road from there to Alichur, a nearby village. Driving to Bulunkul We started out in the morning in Khorog walking to the shared taxi stand. The first …
World Nature on a Shoestring 