The tiny town with a population of one The middle of nowhere Five miles from the South Dakota border in the remote northern reaches of the US state of Nebraska, a long dirt road cuts through rolling prairie grasslands and golden wheat fields towards downtown Monowi, a place you can see in its entirety by […]

The Norwegian town the world tried to erase? For centuries, this arctic Norwegian port has been at the mercy of Mother Nature and man, and yet has risen from the ashes with a deep and defiant response. Much farther north than the famous fjord inlets, Norway’s northernmost seaboard of Finnmark is a frontier on the […]

Where doing nothing is a way of life Dalmatia’s fjaka state of mind One hot July, I was sitting at a cafe in Dubrovnik waiting for someone to show up with keys to the apartment I was renting. It had been over an hour. “Excuse me, have you seen Pero?” I asked the waiter in […]

The planet’s most extreme cuisine Did you make your decision and chose Iran as your travel destination? Do want to travel to iran? Are interested in cuisine? Do you know anything about the plants most extreme cuisine? What do you know about Iran destination tour one of the most famous Iran travel agency in shiraz […]

Mongolia’s obsession with pine nuts Halfway up the mountain, Enkhbaatar disappeared. “Enkhbaatar, where are you?” We swivelled, trying to spot his white hat through the tangled branches. This was no place to lose one’s guide. We were only a few kilometres below the Siberian border, in a dense, subarctic pine forest known as a taiga. […]

The city where people don’t angry In mexico city pleasantries help keep the city afloat I’d lived in Mexico City for about six months before witnessing somebody get visibly angry in public. And it wasn’t a Mexican. It was just after the workday had ended, and the buzzing cafe I was in had a perpetual […]

How sausage flavours the German language The one that came up most often was the classic ‘Viel Regen bringt viel Segen’ or ‘lots of rain brings many blessings’, which I suspected was less a time-tested truth than a means of consoling an inconsolable bride. My father-in-law, however, only looked at me sadly, shaking his head […]

Europeans strange border anomaly : In a quiet corner of northern Europe there exists a geopolitical anomaly, where many buildings have an international border running right through them. It’s a place where a person might be in the same bed as his or her spouse, but sleep in different countries. A place where people move […]

The Pakistan village with a unique system of philanthropy Pakistan village Pakistan village : At 3,100m, Shimshal is the highest settlement in Pakistan’s northern Hunza region and the last village before the Chinese border. It is reachable via only one rocky, hairpin turn-laden road cut into the Distegill Sar and Karun Kuh mountains. The road, […]