Politics | Cycloscope: bicycle touring planet Earth

Creatively Addressing Earth’s Health Issues – Earth’s Call festival

Earth's calling us. It's a loud call, almost a cry, but very few seem to hear. Earth's calling for us to save ourselves and our fellow living being on this planet, it's a call for survival... Our surv...

Georgian big dams and the price of hydroelectric: history of Svan people and actual threats to their existence

Caucasus, Georgia, Reportage

Svan people, their culture, dwellings, and crafts. All of this could disappear to produce so-called "clean energy". History of Svaneti and Khudoni hydropower plant.

Sungai Asap, the Bakun Dam Resettlement: Borneo People on the Verge of Extinction

Reportage, Borneo, Malaysia

Sungai Asap is where the Borneo people (Kenyah, Penan, Kayan) have been resettled to built the huge Bakun dam. Their ancestral homes and lands flooded

those left in Bakun try to exploit the only resource here, tourism

Hydroelectric devastation in Borneo: interview with Save Rivers

Borneo, Malaysia, Reportage, South East Asia

Save the Rivers an interview about so-called clean energy in Borneo The word "Borneo" evokes myths of lush rainforests, strange and dangerous animals and populations of fascinating costumes... all true, unt...

The Ghost Villas of Kep – Architecture Lost in Time

Cambodia, Reportage, South East Asia

One of the abandoned modernist villas of Kep Kep, Cambodia - visiting the ghost villas Kep is a fallen star, a dream that came untrue, an open wound, a memento, an unwilling memorial. Although ...

Singkawang Cap Go Meh (Borneo, Indonesia): not the usual Chinese Lantern festival

Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Reportage, South East Asia

Cap Go Meh (Chap Go Mei, Chap Go Meh) is the name the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival takes in Indonesia. Here in Singkawang, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, it takes a peculiar form.

Facts about Urumqi: Nuclear Deserts and Group Dances

Xinjiang, China, Eastern Asia

Bicycle touring and hitchhiking a bus to Urumqi. Things to do and fact to know about the capital of Xinjiang. And things you don't know the Chinese do

Kok Boru at World Nomad Games - Kyrgyzstan

First World Nomad Games – History Sets Foot in Cholpon Ata

Reportage, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan, Issyk Kul lake, Cholpon Ata town, First World Nomad Games. Play polo with a dead goat (Kok Boru or Buzkashi), throw your opponent from his horse in a tense Enish fight, or grab your bride (or slap your groom) in a Kyz Kuu race!

Ivanovka: The Last & Alive Soviet Union Kolkhoz

Azerbaijan, Caucasus

Adventure Travel in Azerbaijan: Ivanovka, the last Kolkhoz While looking for interesting things to see and do in Azerbaijan, we found out about Ivanovka, the last kolkhoz in Aze...

Baku – Where the Stinky Wind Blows

Azerbaijan, Caucasus

Baku, capital city, core of the dictatorship, temple of the oligarchs. After bicycle touring Azerbaijan we came here to get the Uzbekistan visa.

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