Do you want to travel somewhere cool, but avoid places where people rub shoulders? We made a compilation of scenic and sparsely inhabited places to go to in 2021!

Horses and travelling are the two biggest passions of my life. What happens if you put both of them together? The answer is: the best time ever. A horseback riding trip from the Drakensberg National Park in South Africa to the mountain Kingdom of Lesotho is a good example.

Overwater huts and monasteries, floating markets and gardens, fishermen-acrobats and long-necked women - a story of centuries-old water civilization of Burmese Inle Lake - in pictures.

Our guest author and urbanist Oleksandra Bienert spent almost two weeks in Jordan. What left a long-lasting impression upon her is the mixture of Jordan's different cultures, the vibrant and bustling life of the metropolis, and its hectic traffic

Mount Popa, a Buddhist monastery topping an extinct volcano in Myanmar, is home to the Nat spirits and numerous monkeys awaiting treats from pilgrims to Mount Popa.

At the end of 2016, I quit my job, moved out of my Berlin flat, packed all my belongings into the basement, left everything else behind and went to travel alone around the world. In the three following months, I visited both coasts of the USA, got lost in the Canadian winter forests, wandered in the rainforest of Vietnam and the concrete jungles of Hong Kong, watched the sunrises in Cambodia and spotted a koala and Kiwi birds in Australia.

Happy sheep of Norway are free to wander where they want to, and often, their roads cross with that of tekkers'....

Shortly after we crossed the Swedish-Norwegian border and had made our way to the mountains of the Langsua National Park, we spotted small – almost tiny – wooden cabins with roofs covered with grass and moss. They perfectly blended into the surrounding nature! I felt that I wanted to stay at one of those cabins forever.

Our guest author Maggi undertook the famous Camino Walk – from Portuguese O Porto to Spanish Santiago de Compostela. In this experience report, she ponders why it was a lifechanging experience, shares her Camino highlights and downs, and gives tips to future Camino trekkers.

It happens to us a lot: In Istria, we were rather unimpressed by the top rated sights but fell in love with the places we discovered spontaneously – some small sleepy towns not mentioned in any guidebook and aesthetical fixer-uppers topping over vineyards and Istrian rolling hills.

It was not the ruins of Machu Picchu, nor the mysterious pictures of the Nasca Desert that drove me to Peru. It was rather the green fields of coca and the mixed aura of danger and adventure Peru projected.

Ever since we saw the bright houses and quirky streets of Valparaiso, we knew we had to put the town on our itinerary. Here are our impressions.

Frida Kahlo`s iconic style is easily recognizable - perhaps, the Mexican painter had the most recognizable personal style. Being a big fan of Kahlo`s art - and her clothing is definitely a part of it - I was quite happy to find a temporary exhibition, devoted to Frida Kahlo`s style in Frida`s Blue House in Mexico City.

When Fabian met us in the morning to bring us to a small estancia in the Andes near Mendoza, he was wearing a gaucho beret. Like real Argentinean gauchos do, we thought. On the way to the estancia, our trail ride was supposed to start from, he spoke of 3 different ways to preprocess and prepare mate tea. Our companion definitely knew how to do things the way gauchos do them.

If you read us for some time, you know of our fascination for Cretan villages: so peaceful, so quiet, with the scent of oranges in the air and old people in black sitting in the village taverns. With whitewashed houses nestling close to each other and pots with flowers in the streets, the Cretan villages are incredibly scenic. People of the Cretan villages are usually amazingly friendly. Cretans love sharing their food (A couple of times we got pastry, fruit and a piece of cheese from strangers) and it is fun to be around these people. Don't be discouraged by your basic Greek – ours doesn't go beyond "Hello" - Kalimera and "goat cheese" – katsikísio tyrí.