Cat lady in Serengeti

Serengeti National Park is located in the northwest of Tanzania, by the border with Kenya. The park is essentially a Tanzanian extension of the famous Masai Mara National Reserve Park from the Kenyan side. However, it is three times smaller in comparison to Masai Mara. It also pops up regularly on different adventure or geographical channels due to…

Amok in Cambodia

It took me some time to decide on what I really thought of Cambodia. Driving through the streets of Phnom Penh, I could not help but to think about country’s bloody history. The capital city and the country still bear the signs of cruel rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Both the Toul…

Fat fish in Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands is a group of small islands, an archipelago belonging to the Kingdom of Denmark. The group consists of 18 islands located between Iceland and Scotland. The archipelago is so small, that you really need to look closer to spot them on the map. Initially our visit to the Faroe Islands was intended only…

Kilimanjaro, here we come!

Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, proudly shooting to the sky with three of its peaks, Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira. While Mawenzi and Shira are long extinct volcanos, the Kibo is dormant only, and we can potentially witness its eruption again. The highest of its peaks, Kibo, rises to 5,985 meters above the sea…

Polish Christmas madness

December comes every year, bringing the same stress to the majority of the households with Christian traditions. But I was raised in Poland, where on the first day of the last month of the year, seemingly every Polish lady turns into a war strategist. Not only that, we navigate between shelves in the shopping malls with…

Tofu and Terracotta Army

My first visit to China was to Shanghai in 2007. Unfortunately, my memories are somewhat mixed from that visit. It was mid-August, so the air was very humid, hot, with the heavy pollution visibly all around. It was difficult to take strolls and generally walk around with the dirt from the cars and overall air…