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Finland, Taivassalo
Under Finland's ice
Three days of freediving beneath the ice of a frozen lake — nothing but swim shorts, a safety line and the mammalian dive reflex. Each descent begins in a sauna and ends in a turquoise, ice-filtered world where the ordeal turns into a meditation.
Panama
The Camino Real
Eight hours a day through dense rainforest behind a machete virtuoso, on a trade route the jungle has almost finished swallowing. A hundred and sixty-five years after its last commercial use, barely a cobblestone of the Camino Real is left.
Vietnam, Phong Nha-Ke Bang
Five days in Son Doong
"Never wander around the cave without a light. There can be holes up to a hundred metres deep practically everywhere." The safety briefing before five days inside the largest cave on earth, which has its own jungle, its own weather and a river that has never seen daylight.
Madeira
Fifty shades of green
Dense, healthy nature, most of it under UNESCO protection and all of it close: twenty-eight minutes from the capital to the trailhead at the island's highest point. No dangerous animals, nothing that jumps in front of the car.
Switzerland, Engadin & Graubünden
Four Swiss winter adventures
Minutes after leaving the mountaineering school in crampons and helmet, there is nothing left to hear but snow under the boots. Then the shadows of the Ova da Bernina gorge swallow the Engadin sky — one of four ways into a Swiss winter the ski-resort crowd never sees.
Antarctica
Where the world ceases to exist
An albatross hangs in the air like a paper cutout, entirely unmoved by the physical violence unfolding ten metres beneath it. Singing icebergs, orcas hunting in formation, and a silence with no reference point on this planet.
Uganda
Tree lions and monkey shows
In the green heart of Africa mountains grow straight out of the rainforest and lions climb trees. Queen Elizabeth National Park holds the only lions on earth that do it habitually — and nobody agrees why.
South Africa, Kruger
Becoming a ranger
The lioness roars, steps into view and stares straight at us from twenty-five metres. She could cover that in three seconds. Field-guide training at a camp with no fences, where drums wake the huts before sunrise.
Jordan, Wadi Rum
Where Hollywood found Mars
"I have driven Matt Damon twenty-six times." Raed Suleiman was a fixer on The Martian and still reads the sandstone of Wadi Rum like a street map. Half of Hollywood has used this desert as another planet.
Iceland, Reykjanes
Ice bath and volcanic eruption
A friend in the middle of a burnout needed a change of scene, so we flew north. Two weeks later: a volcano erupting after eight hundred years of silence, and a swim in a glacial lagoon that took some training first.
Sri Lanka
Five months in Sri Lanka
Five in the morning, after a twelve-hour flight and a raft crossing, a sixteen-month-old sees the sea for the first time and points at it with one outstretched finger. A family of four stays five months, and the children go with them.
Burma/Myanmar
Timeless Burma
Four weeks through the country with one assistant, to find out what it feels like to be a GEO photographer. GEO.de ran the result as a show of 36 frames with original sound — the series that started everything.
Arctic, Nunavut
Ship expedition from Canada to Greenland
Six times the size of Germany, thirty-seven thousand inhabitants: in Nunavut one person shares every sixty square kilometres. Eight days aboard an expedition ship of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, from Pangnirtung towards Greenland.
Australia, Western Australia
Red, wild, vast, hot
Venomous snakes, spiders, crocodiles, heatstroke, deadly breakdowns — everything people tell you before your first trip to Australia sounds like a horror story. A journey through the red west to find out how much of it is true.
Australia, South Australia
The colours of the vast
Broad avenues, front gardens in jacaranda blue, honey-coloured sandstone spires on almost every corner. Adelaide is the only major city on earth entirely framed by parkland — a green corset its founder prescribed from the start.
Borneo, Sarawak
Family adventure in the jungle
Four weeks across the well-developed Malaysian peninsula had been the easy part. Then the budget plane to Miri, two daughters asleep in the next seat — twelve years old and three — and the nerve to try wild Borneo.
Brazil, Amazonas
Amazon for beginners
In the failing light of the campfire the shadow makes the scorpion look bigger than it is. It is still no small fellow, and it is crawling across the leaf litter directly beneath the hammock. The Amazon for people who have never slept in one.
Canada, Alberta & British Columbia
By helicopter to the ridge, by rope into the mountain
A helicopter sets you down on the ridge, a steel cable takes you into the mountain. Canada's high country approached from two directions in one trip.
Chile, Valparaíso
Colourful harbours, exhilarating nature
Countless small coloured houses scattered across the forty-two hills of Valparaíso, seen from a café that turns the city into building blocks on a choppy sea. Felipe led us through the alleys on foot for hours before we understood it.
Costa Rica
Fliers, frogs, sloths
Costa Rica rose out of the Caribbean only three million years ago and became the bridge between two continents. For its size it now holds the highest density of animal species on earth — which is why the guide gets you out of bed at five.
Ecuador, Amazon
Natural wonders of the Napo
"The Napo is more than a river — it is the lifeline of the peoples of the forest," a scholar wrote in the 18th century. Downstream by motorboat, with the banks lying up to three kilometres apart and a thousand shades of green between them.
Indonesia, Sumatra
Roaming the jungle like a tiger
Three hours by bus, thirty minutes upstream by boat, then a WWF research station of sawn timber in the middle of the jungle. Home for fourteen days of collecting field data for the protection of the Sumatran tiger.
Japan, Hokkaido
Hokkaido's wild soul of fire and ice
Komorebi is the word for sunlight shimmering through leaves — the guide points it out just before the cod milt arrives. Later comes the largest owl in the world, and the day ends with: what a country.
La Réunion
A trip around the world in five days
Forty-five minutes by helicopter over coast, ocean and three vast cirques, and the island has shown its entire repertoire. Then five days on the ground on one of the most varied islands in the world.
New Caledonia
South Sea with a sunken forest
White tree trunks stick out of a turquoise expanse like bundles of matchsticks. The forêt noyée drowned when the dam went up in 1959 — today an ecological memento nobody would dare repeat.
Oman
In the sultanate of adventure
No objects on the dashboard, no stickers on the windscreen — Oman has rules a visitor learns within five minutes of leaving the airport. What follows is a country built for adventure and remarkably easy to travel.
Scotland, Hebrides
Wide views and wonder islands
"What are the cathedrals built by humans compared with those of nature?" asked Joseph Banks in 1772 on Staffa. Two hundred and fifty-one years later: the same basalt organ pipes, and an eighty-metre grotto lined in anthracite.
Slovenia, Bled
Lakes, gorges, sensory delights
A pletna rows you across Lake Bled in silence, past Belle Époque villas with neoclassical façades. Above it a mediaeval fortress perches on a limestone cliff a hundred and thirty-nine metres high.
Sri Lanka
Amelie, 11, goes to school on the balcony
Before flying out she had to get permission from her headmistress and her teachers — not for a holiday, but for five months away. An eleven-year-old tells in her own words what school on a balcony in Sri Lanka is like.
Switzerland, Valais
Pearls of Valais
A ladder spans a gorge near Saas-Fee and you can see the torrent through the rungs, metres below. Two hours of via ferrata across planks a few centimetres wide, in which a person turns into a cable car.
Taiwan, Taipei
Capital in the jungle
Smoke from the offering kilns bites into the eyes at Longshan Temple, founded in 1738 and still the social centre of its quarter. A short ride away, the jungle begins at the city limits.
USA, Washington State
Olympic National Park
Rainforest, coast and glacier inside a single national park. On the peninsula north of it, an organic orchard on land the Chemakum and S'Klallam farmed long before it made cider.
Vanuatu
Paradise of tranquillity
"The important thing is what you don't see here." Eighty-three islands spread across thirteen hundred kilometres of South Pacific, and a capital of fifty thousand that counts as the metropolis.
Venezuela, Gran Sabana
My life's dream destination
From the river the table mountains are barely visible; the trees hide them. Only when the drone climbs above the canopy do the tepuis appear — rising almost a kilometre straight out of endless jungle.
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