4 essays tagged “hiking”.
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (Denmark)
The Faroe Islands are eighteen volcanic rocks rising sharply from the North Atlantic between Scotland, Iceland, and Norway. The total population is 54,000; the puffin colonies number in the hundreds of thousands. The light is unbelievable. The weather is unbelievable in a different sense.
July 4, 2024
Vernazza, Italy
The five villages of the Cinque Terre — Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore — are now famous past the point of comfort. The trails between them, however, are largely empty after 10 a.m. when day-trippers cluster in the villages. Walk between them.
June 15, 2022
Petra, Jordan
The Treasury at Petra is the iconic photograph; the city itself is much larger and much weirder than the photograph suggests. The Nabataean Empire carved an entire capital out of the sandstone cliffs of southern Jordan, and most visitors see less than a quarter of it.
September 22, 2021
Chefchaouen, Morocco
Chefchaouen — universally and a little reductively known as 'the Blue City' — is a small mountain town in northern Morocco where the medina is washed in shades of cobalt, sky blue, and indigo. The blue is the postcard. The slower, kif-scented mountain life is the longer reward.
April 4, 2021