Soomaa National Park (Estonia)

Soomaa National Park (Estonia)

Vast marshes and bogs, wet meadows, unregulated rivers and dense forests together form a mosaic – the „capital of Estonia’s wilderness” and the „land of bogs” (soomaa in Estonian). It is home to wolves, brown bears, lynx and rare bird species including:...
Belarussian soul

Belarussian soul

Every trip is associated with some smell, taste, color… Belarus smells of wood, herbs drying out in the sun, tea brewed in a samovar with a view out onto a forest of pine, fir and birch. It tastes of eggplant and spicy adjika, which we enjoyed while celebrating...
At the foot of the volcanoes (Guatemala)

At the foot of the volcanoes (Guatemala)

Three majestic volcanos: Atitlán, Tolimán and San Pedro guard Atitlán – a Mayan lake as large as a sea. Atitlán, a name that’s fascinating to locals and visitors alike. A place taken straight from the magic realism prose and poetry that is associated with contemporary...
Gado-gado, or learning how to make Indonesian dishes

Gado-gado, or learning how to make Indonesian dishes

Ungasan – a small village on the Indonesian island of Bali, not far from the Ulu Watu temple, is best known for the Indonesian cookery courses that take place there. A local family, all smiles, invites you to come in and visit their traditional home with its spatious...
South Africa through the eyes of young travelers

South Africa through the eyes of young travelers

We stop over to have a picnic underneath a blooming coral tree with a vista spreading out before us of seemingly endless rocky bluffs of the Sabie River Valley, somewhere in the middle of the High Veld plateau which envelops a considerable part of South Africa. A...