(Latest update: 22/08/2024) What is Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) ? Acute Mountain Sickness (or AMS) is a serious health condition. It’s cause by the lack of body adaptation to the rapid exposure of higher altitudes, where the partial pressure of … Continued
A beguinage (from the French béguinage) is an architectural complex which was housing beguines. They were mainly built in Flanders and the Netherlands, but there are few in North-East France and North-West Germany. History and structure of the beguinages Entering … Continued
Data from Uganda Wildlife Authority say that, in the last few years, the world population of mountain gorillas is been growing, reaching today a thousands individuals. Uganda hosts about half of them, while the others live in the forests of … Continued
In West Uganda there’s one of the most interesting locations of the country: the Murchison Falls National Park. Spreading for almost 4000 km2, this is the largest park in Uganda. It hosts forests, hills and savannah and it’s crossed by … Continued
Updated on 22/08/2024 In October 2019 I was packing for Africa again. That time it was going to be for 40 days volunteering in Uganda with many different activities planned. Once again I was trying to figure out what I … Continued
(Latest update: 23/8/2024) For unknown reasons, my family has always been in love with Oropa, a small town in the mountains above Biella, famous for the homonym sanctuary.Almost every year my grandmother would spend at least a day visit at … Continued
(Last update: 26/08/2024) My volunteering experiences had always been with organisations I either personally knew or had good connections with. They were NGOs, missionaries or even simply friends that had won my trust. In 2019, though, I organised a volunteering … Continued
(Latest update: 23/08/2024) The Republic of Haiti is an ancient land, with a complicated past and an uncertain future. It’s full of contradictions and potentials. Full of people with nothing in their hand and a great desire for changes. The … Continued
For trekking and hiking lovers, in Tenerife there’s a special place called Teide. It’s an active volcano that can be climbed from bottom to summit (3.718m) in a single day. Teide is the second volcano I’ve climbed, following Mount Kilimanjaro, … Continued
(Last update: 22/08/2024) One of the most common question people ask, when organizing climbing Kilimanjaro, concerns the luggage. “What should I pack? Will I miss something? What is necessary and what is not? Is this too heavy? Should I buy … Continued
(Latest update: 01/08/2024) Tourism off the beaten path has been very fashionable in the last few years. Alternative locations, untouched nature, no crowd nor queues, discovery of the real local life are becoming more and more attractive activities. During my … Continued
(latest update: 05/06/2024) The book Kon-Tiki tells the incredible adventure of how Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated the possible connection between the pre-Inca and the Polynesian civilisations, crossing the Pacific Ocean with 5 men on a balsa log raft. Besides the book, … Continued
[Latest Update: 6/05/2024] The commuting journey: that daily trip usually done with over crowded, warm and, in the evening, a little smelly trains. They are often nicknamed, with much love, “hope journey”. Hope for an on time train, for the … Continued
[Latest update: 22/08/2024] Mozambique is not a country as popular as other more touristic African destinations. It doesn’t really have the same huge safari areas Tanzania has, nor the sandy white beaches of Kenya, for instance. Even though you can … Continued