Regardless of whether you ended up having seven days on Easter Island because of choice (smart one, by the way), or because of flight windows (as was my case), you would have more time...
Damn that’s cold! The shock of the entry cascaded across my whole body instantly. My skin felt like it would jump out of the suit and back onto the boat, if it could. I began...
I decided to hike to Orongo, after my successful attempts to visit the moai-era archaeological sites of Rapa Nui. As the ritual site representing the cult that came to be following the doom of...
If you had wondered about the explorers who discovered Easter Island, Ahu Akivi is their monument. It was my fifth day on Easter Island. So far, I had managed to get to my top...
We couldn’t go to Poike, after I was finished at Rano Raraku. My taxi driver told me that the volcano peak was closed for visitors, for rehabilitation reasons. So we would go to Anakena...
The taxi arrived in the darkness, as promised. I scrambled to gather my things, and struggled briefly with the fidgety lock on the door. I was going to see the famous Easter Island heads...
My first morning in Rapa Nui* broke with rain. The incandescent sky of the previous day had been quickly overtaken by storm clouds fetched by the fleet Pacific winds. Overnight, the wind howled over...
The Philippines has a distinct typhoon season towards the middle to later months of the year (although as climate change progresses, it is becoming a bit less distinct – and ‘typhoonier‘). This does not...
He chose Sibu Island for the dugongs. “Remind me to take you to a Malaysian island!” I had said, many weeks before my couchsurfer even arrived. In retrospect, it was an unusual invitation to...
One of the perks of having marine conservationist friends, is that you have the inside scoop to the many islands they work in. I already knew about the endangered dugong population of Pulau Sibu,...
Malaysia / Travel Guides / Travel Stories
by Teja · Published February 25, 2018 · Last modified June 23, 2019
“Why don’t you ask the shaman directly? He’s at ease now, since we’re waiting for low tide,” the organiser said. He led me over to the rough wooden platform, bedecked in nipah frond origami decorations,...
When I decided to join the MWSRP project in the Maldives, I faced a hesitation that probably only other females would guess. And that was: Would I feel absolutely stupid and awkward, going to the...
Artificial glacier provides fresh water to villagersEngineers created an artificial glacier that provides fresh water.
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#WorldWednesday
The Andes mountain range snakes down Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Albom Adventures shows what a road trip along the Argentinian side looks like.
#andes #argentina #roadtrip
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Quebrada de las Conchas: Best of Salta to Cafayate Argentina
A stunning look at nature's rock outcroppings as we drove from Salta to Cafayate through Argentina's Quebrada de las Conchas ...1 day ago
One reason why I publish my entire carbon offset every year and not just the flights (usually around February, if you're looking back in my timeline), is to show you the contribution of flights into the energy mix, and the difference between a year when I made intercontinental trips, vs regional, vs a year when I travelled less.
On the one hand, as someone from the developing world, I can say that the efficiency gains in the aviation industry of the past few decades has democratised mobility in much the same way as the internet has democratised access to knowledge. On my blog you can read what it is that I travel for, and to represent whom.
However, a great proportion of air travel growth are driven by increasingly frivolous reasons. Since air travel is incredibly carbon intensive, this is driving an increasingly untenable impact on the planet.
How much of that can be abated, I wonder, if there was no peer pressure to travel?
#wanderlust #frequentflyer #consumerism #FOMO #ThinkTuesday
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#WebMonday
I'm sure I'll return to Nepal for when EthicalCashmere is ready for its next stage. If I opt fo fly from Kathmandu to Pokhara, I'll remember Yeti Airlines.
#carbonoffsetting #carbonneutral #airline
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Yeti Airlines becomes Nepal’s first carbon neutral airline | UNDP in Nepal
Yeti Airlines has become the first airline in Nepal, and most probably South Asia, to successfully reduce and offset its tota...More
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