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The Gods Must Be Crazy: Meeting The Hadza Of Lake Eyasi
I think it was hearing their unique click language which just made me go bonkers. I fell in love with it the first time I saw the film “The Gods Must Be Crazy” and I thought I will most likely never...
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The Maasai: Up To Date Notes From Olorogwa
I fell in love with the Maasai the first time I came across them whilst travelling across the endless plains of Serengeti. There, among the dust, a beginning red sunset and the wild animals, a Maasai...
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Africa Is Still The Number 1 Destination
“Why do you always say Africa when I ask you what place on earth you find most exiting?” asked a good friend with a bit of frustration the other day and finished off by saying: “You have said that for...
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Maasailand in change?
It is 15 years since I spent 6 months walking in parts of Maasailand. It was one of the most complicated of all journey´s I have ever done. To a certain degree due to the team´s composition, but most...
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Looking Back: Maasailand by foot in the year of 2000
I think sitting down after a long hard day of moving forward, in this case by foot through Maasailand in the year 2000 (Knorr soups), starting the stove for food, is among the most satisfying feelings...
View ArticleNorth Cape to South Cape
This is september 1988. North Cape. The northernmost tip of Norway and Europe. Since returning home from the Chile to Alaska trip I have decided to do North Cape to Cape of Agulhaes. The souternmost...
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Avalanche! I remember thinking exactly at that nano second I hard the sound of it starting, like a pistol shot: Ah, ah, this is it….. I was tossed around like a glove in a storm. Upside down....
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Cycling in Africa
Somebody stole my bicycle pump when I crossed the Ubangi River. From the Centralafrica to Kongo Kinshasa (then Zaire). I only had one. I discovered this disaster after I had cycled straight into the...
View ArticleCycling back in the old days
“You couldn´t have done that in my days on the bike” , I said to my daughters. They looked stunned. They had just finished a video call with their mother in Tassiliaq in Eastern Greenland. We were...
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Beat up by a baboon
Now, I would consider myself a prankster, loving joking around. Most of the time it has ended well. With one major exception! Travelling through what was back then 1989 Zaires, today Congo Kinshasa,...
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