The moment you set foot on Goree Island, you get a sense of peace. It feels worlds away from busy Dakar, but it rests only three kilometres off its coast. As you start walking down its narrow streets, you realise how vivid it is, with hundreds of artists showing their handcrafted work on its small alleyways. The atmosphere is vibrant and colourful, the island is full of life… But beneath its picturesque facade, the island hides a […]
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Atia will soon turn 30. He owns a tuk-tuk and works long days carrying tourists around in Siem Reap, a major tourist hub close to the world famous temples of Angkor. He lives alone in the city and gets up very early in the morning to bring customers to watch the sunrise over the ruins of the main temple, and from there he drives them from highlight to highlight. He is bored. He has seen […]
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The sun rises and the hike up to Capelinhos, a beautiful volcano located at the westernmost point of Europe, begins.The rocky area draws a dark and shadowy silhouette on the western coast of Faial, one of the main islands shaping the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. From the distance, you would say there is nothing there other than rocks and dust, but the truth is that the place hides an important and precious secret. Starting […]
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Norway is famous for its stunning fjords and the sheer cliffs that ring the country’s iconic waterways, but lesser-known areas in the inland are as beautiful and charming as well and on top of that they remain wild and empty. One of those areas is Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, which spans for approximately 4.367 km2, making it one of the largest continuous protected areas in mainland Norway. Moss and bushes cover most of its valley, to […]
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Jostedaalbreen National Park is one of Norway’s top tourist attractions. It is covered by a glacier that spans over 474 km² and is 80 km long, and several places are covered in ice layers over 500 metres thick. It is the largest glacier in mainland Europe and sees about 600,000 visitors every year. More than 250,000 of these visitors go straight to Briksdaalsbreen, a glacier located on the Northern side of the National Park which […]
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The moment I close my eyes and think about Hornøya, a smile is automatically drawn on my lips. Pictures of the pristine-white island cross my mind, with its volatile and frantic weather changes or the noise of thousands of seabirds fluttering above my head still bringing inner peace to my mind. A raven is seen looking for food and flying around the cliffs of the Norwegian bird sanctuary of Hornoya. Located at the Barents Sea, […]
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