Backpacking - Nomad Travellers

Kiruna and its story with the iron ore mine

Details: Category: Photo Stories; Published: Thursday, 18 October 2012 21:18; Written by Davide Vadalà

View of Kiruna from the old mine on Luossavaara hill. The center of the city, visible in the picture, will be relocated because of the extension of the new mine, visible in the background where a huge hole and Kiirunavaara hill are located. 1 Kiruna-iron-ore-mine7075

Kiruna is a small city of 18.000 inhabitants situated over the Arctic Circle, the northernmost city of Sweden. It's the place where the largest underground Iron Ore mine of the world is found, with a metal extension of 4km in length, 80m in width and 2km deep. The history of Kiruna is linked with the mine itself: it was founded in

My visit to Dharavi Slum in Mumbai

Details: Category: Photo Stories; Published: Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:01; Written by Davide Vadalà

The entrance to Dharavi slum, through a bridge overpassing the railway

An insight inside Dharavi Slum, one of the biggest indian slum with a population estimated between 600.000 and 1.000.000 people, situated in the economical heart of the sub-continent, Mumbai. Once know as Bombay, today this megalopolis count over 12 millions inhabitants most of whom still have to fight for their daily survival in

Bring Maria home: hitchiking from Hungary to Bulgaria through Romania

Details: Category: Photo Stories; Published: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:44; Written by Davide Vadalà

This young lovely family offers us a bed to sleep, dinner with traditional romanian food, internet; everything without even knowing us! 001-Oravita-Romania-Photo-Story-0117

Hitchhiking is fun and often full of surprises. That's exactly what happened when we went with Maria From Budapest (Hungary) to Ruse (Bulgaria), about 11 hours of no-stop travel if you have a private car; 2 days and a series of adventures, that you wouldn't expect even in 1 year, if you are hitchhiking!

Everything started when

Our negative experience with Mr. Blasius from Denge homestay in Wae Rebo

Details: Category: World Travellers; Published: Saturday, 26 October 2019 07:43; Written by Davide Vadalà

Kids in Denge welcoming us and practicing english

Our experience in Denge was double-faced. Here we were welcomed amazingly by local children, played with their handmade toys and even football, we had discussions and great interactions until their teacher arrived. It happens to be that their teacher, Mr Blasius, is also the owner of the only official accommodation in the

Adam and his Happy Nomad Tour: long term travellers weekly interview

Details: Category: World Travellers; Published: Sunday, 16 March 2014 20:02; Written by Guest Post

Adam Celebrating Holi In Delhi, India

Find out how Adam, a long term traveller from Usa, passed from a "hit and run" lifestyle to his Happy Nomad Tour!

I’m a 31-year-old American from Cleveland, Ohio. I studied electrical/computer engineering and then worked on oil rigs in the Persian Gulf. While there I traveled a lot, but I was utterly miserable. I went to

A slow traveller in Africa: interwiew with Phil

Details: Category: World Travellers; Published: Monday, 10 March 2014 14:04; Written by Guest Post

Phil, a slow traveller in good company in Africa

Phil, interviewed for our weekly series, fell in love with West Africa and in particular with Mali and Cote d'Ivoire: read more about his semi-nomadic life, his concept of slow travel and experiencing the place.

I am a 28 year old American who has been semi nomadic for a bit over 3 years now. I spend most of my time