My criteria for choosing travel destinations can be equally strange and simple at times. My eyes get stuck on a little island which almost feels like it’s trying to hide within the Mediterranean between Italy and Africa. Yet it’s there in plain sight, the perfect mix of history, culture and a gentle ocean breeze to blow away the Central European winter blues.
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We started our trip in Greece, a place which combines a vast cultural heritage with some of the most beautiful islands and the country’s obvious struggle in the wake of a recent financial crisis.
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I’ve been hosting Couchsurfers in Salzburg on and off for six years and keep having a lot of wonderful experiences. I’ll try to give my guests a memorable time, which I must admit is quite easy in a city, whose beauty regularly leaves everyone amazed, who comes for a visit.
If I don’t have time to show them around, the typical questions are “What should I visit? What can you recommend? What’s there, that I must not miss?”. So finally, this is my half day (or full day) Salzburg walking guide.
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A three day, two nights 60 kilometre trek from Kalaw to Inle Lake turned out a real gem and one of the highlights of my four weeks in South East Asia.
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The easiest way to reach Kuang Si is grabbing a tuk-tuk. Well, screw that. That’s boring!
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If you want the pearl, leave the inland desert, and wander by the sea. Even if you don’t find it, at least you’ve been near the water. Be a warrior! Desire something powerfully! Saddle your horse and get ready for the quest. – Sanai
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There’s an image of remote places in the general public’s minds, formed by some direct experience and a lot of third hand reports, the media, misconceptions and prejudice. In the best case this can give you an incomplete or misleading idea about a place, its people, their life and their culture, other times a completely wrong one. For me it always meant, that the only way to find out, what life is really like somewhere else, is to travel there and see for myself – as good as I can in the short time available. Never has this been more true and eye-opening than during my trip to Iran.
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A multi-day bike tour has been on my bucket list for a long time. This year I didn’t waste much thoughts and decided to just go for it.
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Feet dangling in a clear blue mountain stream / thoughts linger of my dear sweet summer dream / my mountain ahead – a wonderful start / with you in my head and your song in my heart.
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What struck me most about Hawai’i was the diversity. In a couple of hours you can go from lush rain forests to desert-like climate, from sealevel to 4200 m high volcano peaks and back. You can walk across endless lava fields, over land that’s probably younger than yourself or just relax on one of the picture perfect beaches.
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