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Read more about the article Iceland: Hiking an active volcano

Iceland: Hiking an active volcano

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 Iceland is known to be the land of ice and fire, and in the past few years it’s really shown the world what that really means. The country is situated on top of two tectonic plates, the North American and the Eurasian plate, and also right above a hotspot – a geological term for a volcanic area that has an unusually hot mantle underneath it. With over 32 active volcanic systems in the country, you’d expect there to be a volcanic eruption going on all the time. Hiking to…

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Read more about the article Iceland: Silfra Snorkeling and lava tube at Raufarhólshellir

Iceland: Silfra Snorkeling and lava tube at Raufarhólshellir

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 I booked a day trip with a company for Raufarhólshellir lava tunnel and Silfra Snorkeling. First half of the day they picked me up and from the youth hostel and took me to Raufarhólshellir which is about 50 km from Reykjavik. Raufarhólshellir tube is one of the longest and most well known lava field in Iceland.  This lava tube formed during the Leitahraun eruption and is one of Iceland´s longest cave. Lava tubes are a natural conduit formed when an active low-viscosity lava flow develops a continuous and hard crust, which thickens…

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Read more about the article Iceland: Laugavegur Trek and Fimmvörðuháls pass

Iceland: Laugavegur Trek and Fimmvörðuháls pass

🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇮🇸 The Laugavegur and Fimmvörðuháls trek has been listed by National Geographic as one of the "World's Best Hikes" due to the unique and extremely diverse landscape encountered on the trail. One can see everything from sizzling hot springs and volcanoes to icy white glaciers. We walked through geothermally active lands of colored rhyolite mountains, obsidian fields, cross glacier rivers, and so much more on our journey. We stay in rustic, but charming highland huts located in remote areas. Each area is unique, revealing new features in the ever-changing landscapes of the trail. Day 1 Reykjavik  to Landmannalaugar  We departed early in the morning from…

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Read more about the article Paragliding in Pokhara

Paragliding in Pokhara

🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 Paragliding in Pokhara is an amazing activity . Unlike some other adventure sports its more serene almost felt like spiritual. The Paragliding take-off height is 1592 meters in Sarangkot hills and the ending point is 593 m in Lakeside. It is fairly safe .There was an accident om 2020 Nov in which pilot died and the passenger suffered critical injuries . Though the cause was not reported in the media but local pepole told me this was due to some dare devil stunt  (plucking a flower from cliff wall…

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Read more about the article Tenerife and Madrid in 10 days

Tenerife and Madrid in 10 days

Everyone loves cheap deals but this one was rediculasly cheap to be true. A fully equipped 1 bed apartment in a popular sea side resort for just $150 for 3 that too for a full week.  I was not sure if I am getting into a scam and then we rescheduled two time times due to covid restrictions . So finally in Feb 2022 we were off for Tenerife and Madrid . Day 1 My flight from Luton took off early morning and we checked in Pearly Greay ocean resort by 12. …

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Walking Lake district

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 It's my  2nd hiking trip to Lake district after many years. I decided to sign up with AAA hiking group. I had done trips with them earlier in Slovania which was pretty good. We were staying at comfy hotel with dinner and were doing 3 hikes. The group was pretty big and there were 3 hikes to choose from easy , medium , tough. I paid some extra and took a van transport from London. We reached in the afternoon , walked around the hotel ,had dinner and went…

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Puri

Puri was on cards for a long time. So this December when I was in India , I decided to finally go for it. I started in the evening by Howrah - Puri Supefast express. In spite of booking ticket in 2nd AC 1 month in advance, I only got RAC. Nevertheless , We reached Puri hotel in the morning. I booked the hotel through OYO platform but thr hotel did not honur the booking so ended up paying it again. It took months for me to get my money back. Day…

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Read more about the article Luxembourg and Mullerthal Trail

Luxembourg and Mullerthal Trail

🇱🇺 🇱🇺 🇱🇺 Luxembourg is a small country surrounded by Belgium, France and Germany and one of the world's highest GDP (PPP) per capita as per IMF.  It is a very expensive country but transport within the country is completely free. I booked a place in Luxembourg city and used that as my base to travel around. Day 1 & 2 Luxembourg City I arrived Luxembourg in the afternoon. I booked City Pillow rooms for 5 days . Spent my time walking around the City centre . I booked a walking tour…

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Poland: Krakow

🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 This is a very short visit to Krakow on my way to Slovakia. Arrived in Krakow late night on Wednesday 1st March. Public transport was not avaialble at that time , so I asked the hotel to arrange a pick up. I stayed in Globtroter guest house. The stuff was very nice and waited for me to arrive. Next morning I roamed around Krakow. Rynek Glowny, the largest medieval market square in Europe, dazzles with its medieval, Renaissance and baroque architecture. When warm weather heralds the arrival of café…

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Read more about the article Aberdeen, Shetland and Inverness

Aberdeen, Shetland and Inverness

Shetland is an island archipelago between UK and Faroe island in Norway. There is a cluster of 100 islands only 16 of which are populated.  So it was a long journey from mainland UK. Day 1: London - Abardeen This was long day started at morning in Hemel Hempstead. We had to travel all the way Kings Cross and then take the train Abardeen. It`s one of the longest train journey in UK ( longest one is  Aberdeen to Penzance) of more than 7 hour . We reached Abardeen in late afternoon…

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