In Copán Ruinas, we slept in a beautiful colonial-style guesthouse called Madrugada. It was far from our usual simple and cheap accommodation. Nothing from the outside betrayed that a hotel lay behind the facade — it looked just like a regular yellow house with no signs. But once you gathered
Humans are funny. Chalk a line on the floor somewhere, call it a border and you can be sure that everybody wants to take a picture. It doesn’t even matter if the line is painted in the right location, like the Arctic Circle in Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, the
Finnish Lapland (2): about the northern lights, or a football game with a walrus skull
Category: Finland
In the first part of this story, you could read how the sauna thawed Teemu. Three cans of beer later, he even turns out to be a gifted storyteller. The sauna stones act as an ersatz campfire. “According to a well-known Sami legend, the foxes of the polar region could
Teemu’s town in Lapland, Finland, has more reindeer than people. Around 22,500 reindeer versus 8,876 people, according to the latest census from 2015. The latter number has been decreasing steadily. The town in question, Sodankylä, is four times the size of Antwerp. The province, not the city. That amounts to
A pelican flying over your head when you’re floating in the salty Caribbean Sea. A walk through a toucan forest on the way to impressive temples in Guatemala. Bright red scarlet macaws gliding by in Honduras. A colony of pastel pink flamingos fluttering their wings in the low water of