These corona times are tougher for some than for others. We can imagine that stay-at-home kind of couch potatoes with an unhealthy Netflix addiction content themselves with some extra time to binge. Others, whose feet get itchy when they remain too long in one place, might be more hard-hit by the instruction to stay at home. For all of those with a serious fit of Fernweh, an ache for distant places, we present our tips on how to travel in times of corona, quarantine and social distancing.
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Day tripping in the Ring of Fire (1): on top of Merapi, the most active volcano in the world
Indonesia is dangerously beautiful. Not only can you find 20 per cent of Earth’s biodiversity in this country, but also the highest number of active volcanoes. We decided to climb the most active of them all. “Merapi is an asshole, but a friendly one.”
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Is there a better place to experience a turning point than the top of a mountain?
For those with a decided lack of talent for rhetoric, the ones who immediately want to denounce that you may as well experience such turning point on the platform of a train station, or seated down on a toilet: the answer is, of course, no.
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