This is a post about hiking Mount Ochi on southern Evia Island in Greece. If you are looking for information and inspiration for planning out your hiking adventures throughout Greece, check out this resources page.Mount Ochi (gr: Όχη, also spelt Oche or Ohi) is the third highest mountain on Euboea Island in Greece. It is located in the southernmost part of the island, north of … [Read more...]
Giri Giri: The Magical West African Talisman that Protects against Bullets and Demons
I remember the first time I got introduced to that object known as Giri Giri... It was in that seaside Senegalese town named Joal. By some random circumstances, I and a friend had ended up there, attending a big event of traditional Senegalese wrestling. There was that man, Tarou, whom we'd gone there together with, who was explaining to us all the details about the sport in … [Read more...]
Climbing Mount Giona, the Highest Mountain of Southern Greece
This is a post about climbing Mount Giona, the highest mountain in southern Greece. If you are looking for information and inspiration for planning out your hiking adventures throughout Greece, check out this resources page.Profound darkness was prevalent on half of the earth's surface where Greece is situated when, me and my friend Kasper, we were driving past the straits of … [Read more...]
Banjul Ferry across Gambia River
The Banjul ferry service operates regularly between Gambia's capital, Banjul, and the town of Barra, located on the north side of Gambia River's mouth. It is the most popular ferry crossing in the Gambia, serving thousands of people daily.The fleet is comprised of three boats: 'Johe', 'Barra', and 'Kanilai': which run between the two cities from 7 am up to 9 pm. They are … [Read more...]
Yoff Beach, Dakar, Senegal
Along Dakar's, Senegal's capital city, northern coastline, and before the vast, wild Atlantic Ocean lies Yoff Beach.For the 90,000 inhabitants of Yoff, Dakar's largest town (commune d'arrondissement), Yoff Beach is not just their beach: the place where they'll spend their idle hours swimming or lying on the sand: but the center of their public life, rather.All along its great … [Read more...]
Climbing Mount Cithaeron
Mount Cithaeron is a mountain located north of Athens, of which the highest peak, known as "Profitis Ilias" or "Elatias", rises to 1409 AMSL. The homonymous, elongated mountain range to which it belongs used to form the boundary between the territories of Athens and Thebes in ancient times; and the border between the Greek prefectures of Attica and Boeotia today.It's … [Read more...]
Hiking Mount Aigaleo in Athens
A sunny and peaceful Saturday morning... and we were driving our way out from Athens. Our destination was the Gereneia Mountains on the west border of Attica; however, there was only a tiny portion of the distance separating us from our destination we got to cover, after all. As the car was rolling along the highway by the outskirts of the city, that rolling of it started to … [Read more...]
Hiking Mount Pyxarias on Evia Island
This is a post about hiking Mount Pyxarias on north Evia Island in Greece. If you are looking for information and inspiration for planning out your hiking adventures throughout Greece, check out this resources page.Pyxarias is the fourth highest mountain on Euboea, Greece's second-largest island. It is located at the northernmost tip of the great mountain range forming the … [Read more...]
From Bissau to Serrekunda – Traveling in West Africa
The sun that rose over the West African coast, that morning, was the last one to find me in Bissau. My plan for that day was to farewell that country and move up north to Serrekunda, Gambia's largest city. I packed my stuff slowly, had my breakfast, and was ready to go.Getting out on the street in front of my hotel, I stopped the first taxi that passed and agreed with its … [Read more...]
Getting Visited by a Brown Bear, that Night in the Carpathian Mountains
It was an exceptionally hot summer afternoon. Many hours had withered away since I had left my last night's refuge in that cornfield somewhere near Bacau, by dawn that day. Through many towns and villages, and immense extents of fields, I had traveled by the means of revolving my bicycle's pedals. And then, I was regarding all in awe the easternmost portion of the wild … [Read more...]
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