An Announcement: The Trip of a Lifetime – 100Essential Travel Experiences
It’s been quiet on Travel Cake these past few months. Some of you have been asking me where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to. Well, I can tell you this much: I haven’t been slacking! I’ve moved from Ecuador to Belgium where I have been slaving away at a 9 to 5 desk […]
Hiking the Cocora Valley in Colombia
Hiking the Cocora Valley: A Dream 10 Years in the Making I was never much of a hiker — at least not until I did a multi-day trek in Nepal a few years ago.While I still can’t call myself a hardcore trekker, I now find myself seeking out hikes more and more. The distances, the effort, […]
What’s in… Iran?
What’s in Iran? More Than You Think. Almost every time I excitedly told someone I was headed to Iran, I was met with puzzled looks.Reactions ranged from, “Are you nuts?! You’re gonna get yourself killed!†to the slightly calmer, “Iran? What’s in Iran?†Funny — no one ever asks that when you say you’re going […]
Explore the Elements
One of the photography goals I’ve recently set for myself, is to focus more on themes: to capture recurring colours, patterns or situation. I find most of the themes I’ve been working around so far, quite average. I usually collect pictures of exotic drinks, dishes, mistranslations, strange signs and a couple of funny ones I’ll […]
Desert Oasis of your Dreams: Garmeh, Iran
For as long as I can remember, I’ve dreamed of visiting a real oasis. The sort of place you see in storybooks and old adventure films: a palm-fringed village with water gushing from an unlikely spring, crops growing against all odds, and silence so vast you could hear a sheep blink. A place where you […]
Visit Berat in Albania and weep
Weeping in the name of overwhelming charm and beauty is a thing, right? Well, it was for me. I definitely had to hold back a tear or two. Maybe they were just tears of general happiness—or maybe it was the setting I found myself in. Berat was nearly deserted. Tourist season had long since ended, […]
A peek into Friesland’s past, The Netherlands
It was a sunny September Friday when we set off for the north of the Netherlands. Having never ventured that far up in our neighbouring country, we instinctively packed our warmest jumpers and scarves.“With a name that roughly translates to ‘Freeze land,’ it must be exceptionally cold up there,†we nodded jokingly. I’d been wanting […]
2014 Travel Summary
I spent the last two days of 2014 in a haze, trying to beat jetlag and fatigue from the long transatlantic flight to South America. While the rest of the world was exchanging hugs and watching fireworks to ring in the new year, I was soundly asleep, cocooned in my warm bed. Despite the endless […]
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