Vagabjorn

Vagabjorn Visited EVERY COUNTRY at the age of 29. Now I want to show YOU my favorite ones!

Kenya🇰đŸ‡Ș From one side of the coast to the other; I found it to be quite diverse in its cultures, people, religion and la...
24/02/2025

Kenya🇰đŸ‡Ș From one side of the coast to the other; I found it to be quite diverse in its cultures, people, religion and landscape. And with some pretty natural gems too 😊✹

Banana on spaghetti, an abandoned plane wreck and a police-escorted trip through Las Anood. Puntland and the newly forme...
07/02/2025

Banana on spaghetti, an abandoned plane wreck and a police-escorted trip through Las Anood. Puntland and the newly formed Khatumo State gives you a different kind of experience from your regular holiday destination:)

Mogadishu❀ It's been a blast! 😊
04/02/2025

Mogadishu❀ It's been a blast! 😊

24 days have passed, working on the ship in the far North in the cold, which means that I now get 24 days holiday before...
29/01/2025

24 days have passed, working on the ship in the far North in the cold, which means that I now get 24 days holiday before I have to return to work again. 24 days that I'll spend traveling around Somalia and KenyađŸ’«
50% work, 50% travel, 50% hot and 50% cold. Thats my current balance;)

A visit to the Worlds Northernmost Ice Hotel.In Alta at approximately 70 degrees North you'll find Sorrisniva; an Igloo ...
22/01/2025

A visit to the Worlds Northernmost Ice Hotel.
In Alta at approximately 70 degrees North you'll find Sorrisniva; an Igloo Hotel that is completelybrebuilt every single year, with completely new rooms, a new bar and new ice sculpture art. With an inside temperature of between -4 and -7 degrees, a quick visit might just be enough, or you can spend the night if you're tough enough for that.
And then there is the stratospheric clouds that we have seen a lot of the last days. A phenomenon which is rarer than Aurora Borealis up here in northern Norway, and just as beautiful.
There. That's two more things for you to put on your bucket list for when you decide to visit the Arctic in the winter.

Antarctica. The 7th and final continent. đŸ‡ŠđŸ‡¶ A highlight of the 2024 travels, and a worthy final journey of the yearđŸ’«For ...
09/01/2025

Antarctica. The 7th and final continent. đŸ‡ŠđŸ‡¶ A highlight of the 2024 travels, and a worthy final journey of the yearđŸ’«
For me, many of my favorite moments revolved around the activities that could be done while we were there. From kayaking among ice bergs, hiking and snowshoeing next to penguins and camping while watching colors change constantly in the sky 🌄
Is Antarctica on your bucket list? For a long time it sure was on top of mine😀

Everest (Chomolungma) Base Camp, Tibet Feeling grateful to have finally gotten to see the lowest and now the highest poi...
13/11/2024

Everest (Chomolungma) Base Camp, Tibet
Feeling grateful to have finally gotten to see the lowest and now the highest point of the Earth, together with a wonderful groupđŸ’« Next, after spending so much time working in the Arctic this year, it's time to head South, to explore a bit of the AntarcticđŸ—ș Chasing both the yins and the yangs.. â˜ŻïžâœšđŸ˜Š

Lhasa, meaning "a place for gods";It's a holy city for Buddhists, and full of sacredness and mysteries to be explored. V...
07/11/2024

Lhasa, meaning "a place for gods";
It's a holy city for Buddhists, and full of sacredness and mysteries to be explored. Visiting monasteries, palaces, temples and seeing the Tibetan monks in their daily life and rituals was a spiritual experience for sure✹

Xingping. The place where green mountain tops surround the Li River, and fishermen use cormorants to catch fish in the n...
19/10/2024

Xingping. The place where green mountain tops surround the Li River, and fishermen use cormorants to catch fish in the night. Probably my favorite place in China so far, with a backpacker vibe which feels more like South East Asia than the rest of the areas in North Guanxi, China..

The Heaven's Gate of Tianmen Shan. A mountain with a massive hole.It is just like the Torghatten Mountain with a hole (l...
13/10/2024

The Heaven's Gate of Tianmen Shan. A mountain with a massive hole.
It is just like the Torghatten Mountain with a hole (last pic) that I take tourists to see when I work in Norway.. but just... Bigger!

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, also known as the Avatar Mountains is a national park in the Hunan Province, South Chi...
11/10/2024

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, also known as the Avatar Mountains is a national park in the Hunan Province, South China, known for.. you guessed it; having inspired the scenes of the famous movie Avatar. Never had I thought I'd end up spending four days walking through the park, but the place was huge, and the queueing at tourist sites in China is just insane. You can literally end up spending a couple of hours in a queue, just to get up one lift! But the end, it was all worth itâ˜ș

28 minutes by bullet train from Xian, near the much smaller city of Huayin, there is a mountain you should not miss. It ...
04/10/2024

28 minutes by bullet train from Xian, near the much smaller city of Huayin, there is a mountain you should not miss. It is the Westernmost of the five great/the five sacred mountains of China. And one which has a pretty unique experience you can try; the plank walk, also (misleadingly) called "the most dangerous hike in the World".
I remember the first time I saw photos of these planks that could be traversed on a cliff side more than six hundred meeters up in the air. My first thought was that this is somewhere where I WILL go.
Visiting the great five of China (which I didn't even know about before coming here) has now been put on my bucket list. It's like for every experience I cross off my existing bucket list, five new ones pops up😅

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Meet the traveler on a quest to visit the world’s 201 countries by the age of 30

Meet JĂžrn BjĂžrn

I am writing these lines from a remote area in Southern Ethiopia called the Omo Valley, home to a number of ancient tribes whose unique diversity is studied by anthropologists to this very day.

Last week I was lucky enough to experience a pre-wedding “bull-jumping ceremony” (Ukuli Bula) conducted by the Hamar tribe. This ancient right-of-passage ceremony involves grooms-to-be proving their courage by jumping naked over bulls while brides-to-be are whipped on their backs to show just how far they would go for love. As the naked men bravely leap from one bull’s back to another, the women look euphoric, as blood showers down their backs. Quite a powerful thing to witness!

Comment: it is actually the friends and family of the groom who gets whipped to prove themselves for the bride