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Travel

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Chill out events

Wish You Were Here

Paradise Music

Hawaiian LomLomi

Island of Myth and Legend

Anna Maria Espsäter and her friend found themselves stranded in Tahiti for a bit longer than intended, en route to Easter Island. The unsettling start to their journey only added to the mystery that surrounds their remote destination Easter Island lies like a speck in the vast Pacific Ocean, some four hours plane journey from the Chilean mainland to the east and almost as far away from Tahiti to the west. The journey there is part of the adventure and although I’d heard much about this far-fl ung outpost and its famous moai, or stone statues, before my visit, nothing had quite …

Beyond the Bush - The Paradox of Zen

Just 50 minutes by plane from Nairobi and we (a party of four South Africans, two Americans and a British family of four – all members of the African Geographic expedition) found urselves in an animal paradise, a place of endless space and beauty, a place where one can leave behind all worldly cares and submerge oneself in the unfolding of daily life in the African bush. Dr Sibis Mouton, surrounded …

New Zeland - the Blueprint for Global Change

With just four million people in a land of green surrounded by the blue Pacific Ocean, I’ve come to believe we are small enough and contained enough to create effective and exceptional change in terms of finding new solutions and new ways of living – a virtual living blueprint of a new kind of world that could eventually be shared with other countries. Kimberley Paterson puts forth her case for the ‘Land of the Long White Cloud’ as the example of a community living from the heart and a country thriving, economically, ecologically – and above all, spiritually. …

Arvika - A Co-Creative Community

Anna Maria Espsäter travels to Sweden to find out more about the extraordinary sense of community that makes Arvika such an interesting place to visit and such a success story in terms of creative pursuits and lifestyle. Some 30 minutes from the Norwegian border, Arvika lies along the shores of a crystal clear lake, Glafsfj orden glittering in the autumn sunlight with immense quiet forests encroaching upon it on three sides. Despite its small size, around 15,000 in the town itself, 27,000 in the borough, …

A Better Way to Holiday

From eco lodges to living in an Ashram, travel journalist Sarah Dawson shows us how to navigate our way through alluring southern India by road and rail – and return with a clear environmental conscience. Ever since a yoga holiday in Goa where I practised yoga on a podium surrounded by exotic birds, swaying palm trees and brightly coloured butterflies I have longed to return to this spiritually pulsating sub-continent. I also wanted to make as low an environmental impact as possible which meant …

Forest of Broceliande

Throughout the tales of the Arthurian cycle, the marvels of the Otherworld are never far away, and nowhere more so than in the wild places of the great forests. Paul Brannan takes us to France to explore the treasures among the tress.These ancient forestss are not to be found on any map, although they have their counterparts in our world; one such place is the forest of Paimpont in Brittany, a link to the legendary forest of Broceliande. Today, this forest of oak, beech and pine trees covers around 16,000 …

Stealing of the Sampo

Heroic tales, ancient rites, shamanic rituals, amazing wildlife and thriving traditions are just some of the delights enjoyed by Anna Maria Espäster as she ventured to Kuhmo in Finland to share in the riches of the Kalevala – a national treasure of epic proportions The small town of Kuhmo, with just 10,000 souls to its name, lies nestled in the midst of lakes and forests a stone’s throw from the Russian border on Lake Lammasjarvi, in deepest Finnish Karelia. The area of Karelia has long been a bridge between East and West and it was one of the regions that in the 1830s …