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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 28, 20207 min read
Travelling While Not
Leptis Magna in Libya. The coronavirus has affected most people’s lives and we would all like the pandemic to end sooner rather than...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jul 12, 20193 min read
Oceania in a Nutshell
Not many people have experienced a sunrise in Kiribati, the world’s 9th least visited country. More and more people aspire to visit every...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 14, 201910 min read
The World’s 18 Hardest Countries to Visit
Afghanistan is at war, be careful when visiting. I last wrote a post about the most difficult countries to visit for a tourist in 2013,...
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Gunnar Garfors
Oct 14, 20184 min read
How to Visit Syria
The Damascus delivery dude. I met him several times around the old city. Last week I went on holiday. To Syria. It is the 31st...
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Gunnar Garfors
Sep 9, 20187 min read
How To Run Out of Countries
Over Kabul in Afghanistan. I have noticed a clear tendency lately; More and more people want to run out of countries. They do, in other...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 10, 20182 min read
12 Reasons Why Jogging Improves Your Travels
In Kingston, Jamaica I ran together with partner in crime Thorkild Gundersen. I always travel with hand luggage only, but I still somehow...
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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 24, 20183 min read
Air Kiribati Makes Tuvalu More Fun
Air Kiribati has landed in Funafuti. Photo: Air Kiribati. What is happening to the world? Angola is now issueing visas on arrival for...
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Gunnar Garfors
Nov 27, 20173 min read
Staying Overnight in the Country with no Hotels
I’ve had better sleeps, but rarely more challenging. The country is special in more ways than one. It is totally surrounded by a city, it...
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Gunnar Garfors
Sep 17, 20179 min read
Fancy a A Weekend in Mogadishu?
By the old, battered lighthouse in Mogadishu. It was no surprise, really. I ended up travelling to Mogadishu for the weekend alone....
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Gunnar Garfors
Sep 10, 201713 min read
North Korea 8 Years Apart
In front of Taedong River and Juche Tower in Pyongyang in 2017, my first visit in eight years. I first visited North Korea in 2009. North...
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Gunnar Garfors
Sep 1, 20172 min read
Nike Is Right, Just Do It
Just do it. What can I say? Having travelled to every country in the world, while still regularly exploring the continents of the world,...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jul 10, 20172 min read
MADagascar – Because You’re Mad Not to Visit
Avenue of the Baobabs just outside Morondava, Madagascar. The name is not a coincidence. You are truly mad if you don’t visit one of the...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 10, 20173 min read
No World Record, But a Good Trial Run
Still going strong in Dubai. PelleK (from left), Gunnar Garfors, Derek Bell, Ronald Haanstra and Erik de Zwart. Photo: Allan Mikalsen. So...
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Gunnar Garfors
May 25, 20174 min read
How to Avoid Copycat Tourism
The globe is big enough for everyone to find unique travel experiences. Don’t be a copycat. You know the feeling. When you see a...
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Gunnar Garfors
May 15, 20172 min read
– The Only Bad Trip Is The One You Didn’t Go On
“The Only Bad Trip Is The One You Didn’t Go On.” That’s pretty much how I finished my TEDx talk in Binghamton in Upstate New York on...
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Gunnar Garfors
May 13, 20172 min read
Globetrotting Gifts with a Twist
“Darling, we’re going to Afghanistan.” Experiences beat stuff any day of the year. Including for Christmas and birthdays. And what can...
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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 19, 20174 min read
The Friendship-Boosting Secretive Travel Club
Rocking the boat is a typical Travel Club surprise activity. Oysters as fresh as they get cannot be praised highly enough. Matching wine...
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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 14, 20173 min read
Maldives on the Cheap
Expect amazing views regardsless of how much you pay for accommodation. Hahaha…? No, really. It can actually be done. I was never a big...
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Gunnar Garfors
Oct 8, 20166 min read
13 Tips on How to Travel Solo Without Being Alone
Out of the 198 countries in the world, I have visited almost half alone. No surprise, really, even when contemplating about future trips...
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Gunnar Garfors
Nov 17, 20154 min read
Why Terrorism Should Not Stop You From Travelling
Bookings are down in cities damaged by terrorist attacks. Naturally so, at first thought. But let not terrorists stop us from roaming...
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