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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
Jun 12, 20193 min read
The World’s Best Travelled Backpack
The NIN Lifestyle x Gunnar Garfors in Northern Norway. Photo: Haakon Hoseth. So, this is totally crazy! There’s a backpack that has been...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 10, 20196 min read
Middle of Nowhere/Norway: Top Chefs Create Pop-up Kelp Restaurant
Very few people has ever visited Træna. It is simply too remote. Photo: Haakon Hoseth. Seaweed, or kelp, is the new food trend in...
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Gunnar Garfors
May 23, 20193 min read
No, Flying Doesn’t Have the Worst Carbon Footprint
War, what is it good for? Given my extensive travelling it may not surprise you that I am often accused of having the world’s biggest...
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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 29, 20195 min read
How Travel Can Be Part of the Green Change
Kiribati is one of the countries at risk if sea levels increase. And no, the title is not clickbait. I have travelled to every country in...
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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 3, 201916 min read
Comments from a Climate Culprit
I have travelled to every country in the world twice, most recently to write the book “Elsewhere” (“Ingenstad“) about the world’s 20...
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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 25, 20191 min read
“Elsewhere” – My book in your language?
Yemen is the world’s least visited country. This is from the coastal city of Aden. Photo: Lexie Alford. My book about the world’s 20...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 8, 20191 min read
Garfors Goes on Tour
Gunnar Garfors unsuccessfully trying to negotiate with a camel outside Aden, Yemen. Photo by Lexie Alford. I often speak about travel at...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 1, 20191 min read
Counting Countries
The last country I visited. Can you guess which one? In my first book, How I Ran Out of Countries, I provided a list where travellers can...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 1, 201919 min read
Gunnar Garfors in the Press - Before 2020
Garfors’s been interviewed and quoted for various reasons by media from a range of countries, and he has written some freelance articles...
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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
Dec 16, 20184 min read
Oops, I Did It Again
My second trip to Estonia, 15 years after the first. The last two years I have visited the 20 least-visited countries on the planet. And...
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Gunnar Garfors
Dec 10, 20181 min read
Visiting Every Country Twice
On the river bank in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. After two years of research I have finally finished my book about the world’s 20...
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Gunnar Garfors
Nov 21, 20183 min read
Apricale – The Address of Artists
Creative Commons photo by Villamania. Italy isn’t very exotic, I thought. Don’t get me wrong, I have visited many times and I love the...
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Gunnar Garfors
Nov 20, 20181 min read
‘Elsewhere’ Available Now
You can buy a gift certificate like this, to put under the Christmas tree, or preorder the book for yourself. Preorders qualify for a 15...
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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 24, 20183 min read
Not the World’s Worst Airports
The main road around the country runs through Nauru airport, and is closed everytime an aircraft lands Which isnæt all that often, but...
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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 26, 201816 min read
World’s 20 Least Touristy Countries
From the least visited country in the world. Which one it is? Find out further down. Photo by Lexie Alford. I have been on the road the...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 26, 20181 min read
How Touristy is Your Country?
For the first time, a complete list of annual tourism numbers to every country in the world. Or you can read more about the top 20, i.e....
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