Tag: Hiking

Austria, GYG Tours, Travel Words

Headed for Heurigen (R)

One of my favorite days in Vienna did not, technically speaking, take place in Vienna. The village of Grinzing, though, is where Viennese go to get their rowdy summer on. Grinzing is the wine-growing (and –drinking) rural region of Austria just outside of Vienna. City busses even go there from […]

China, Video Blogs

China’s Misty Mountains (R)

China’s Misty Mountains The day before, having walked up and then accidentally halfway down and then back up the mountain, I fell into an exhausted and not entirely happy sleep in an overpriced dorm room. Waking up on the day of the video, then, I found Huangshan covered in snow […]

China, Video Blogs

Shout at the Devil! (R)

Devil’s Canyon is a big desolate sea-bed turned desert in the middle of Gansu province, one of the more remote in China.  Being here made me want to buy a camel and a tent and spend days wandering around the rock formations. The style for this video is thanks to […]

Tajikistan, Travel Words

Kulikalon Camping (R)

You know that feeling when sometimes you just need to get away? Leave cities and civilizations behind and jsut get out into nature? I was having one of those days about a week into Tajikistan. So I stayed here, for three nights. Climbing unfortunately snowy mountain passes during the day […]