Africa

The longest desert train ride

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AFRICAN CONTINENT
Travel countries: Mauritania
Experience: The longest train ride to the miners’ city

“It is difficult…”

How would you imagine, how many people wearing golden accessories think of workers in the gold mines? How many of them know that statistically to produce 1000 kg of gold takes away 1 life a miner and causes 10 serious injuries? Knowing Mauritania’s dependency on mining industry, I have chosen it to be my investigation topic. We got the first contact in Zourzazate, the miners’ city, completely dependent on iron ore. It took us 20 hours, 700 kilometers of interesting train ride Continue reading The longest desert train ride →

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Meeting Coracias Garrulus

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AFRICAN CONTINENT
Travel countries: Senegal, Guinea Bissau
Experience: Nature

Once I had a very vivid and realistic dream. I started to feel how the wings are being grown from my shoulder blade while eventually I became a colorful bird and flew over lands. My passion for mammal biology extended to interest in flying creatures as well after I have accidentally recognized what bird I became in my dream watching stuffed birds’ exhibition in a museum of Natural History. It was Coracias Garrulus (European Roller). Didn’t know about it before. Awakened curiosity. Continue reading Meeting Coracias Garrulus →

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Land Cruising Nouakchott

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AFRICAN CONTINENT
Travel countries: Mauritania

EXPERIENCE
Night above Nouakchott

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Land Cruising the city of sand and hunger

Even if you feel like you have seen all documentaries about poverty and know all statistics of hunger in developing countries – reality will always teach you in the most influencing way. On my way to the capital Nouakchott I was told by a local car seller, that there are no poor people here. Not believing what I heard, it did not take long to prove it wrong with my own eyes: the first people you meet on streets are children surrounding you with buckets for begs, Continue reading Land Cruising Nouakchott →

Africa

Border crossing – No man’s land

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AFRICAN CONTINENT
Travel countries: Morocco – Mauritania
Experience: Border crossing

The gates from Europe to Africa – strait of Gibraltar starts with inconceivably huge port, industrial zone and compilation of political borders: Spain, United Kingdom, Spain again and only then Morocco. Suspicious feeling about enormously intensive goods transit and giant walls for illegal people migration frees imagination for the first thoughts what possibly we can expect to meet. The atmosphere is strengthened by border officers greeting “Have a nice travel and take care” and “Thank you for your trust” banner after the very last checkpoint. Continue reading Border crossing – No man’s land →

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The best alarm clock ever

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AFRICAN CONTINENT

Travel country: Morocco
Experience: Moroccan village

The best alarm clock

It was the first night at the local Moroccan family in the village close to Chefchaouen. Night was long and full of interesting dreams; my European mind was still trying to process everything what have happened today while looking for a host family in the mountains. More questions were raised than I could find answers: how come that people invite you to sleep over at their house without even knowing who you are, trusting you and accepting like a family member; how can you make such an honest relationship with only body language; how can they put so much sugar in the tea; what makes those children so brave (they started kissing my hand after few minutes we met) and more and more…


All these questions after a long day in the mountains looking for a place to stay made my night sleepless and it was easy to get lost between my dreams and reality. Continue reading The best alarm clock ever →

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Why Africa?

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It might seem odd to have a topic called Africa in the blog about a sustainable farm in the North East of Lithuania. But it is more related to what we do now than you can expect. As one of the strong experiences which inspired us to do what we do.

Here we will be sharing short parts of the story, called

Learn to travel. Travel to learn.

With this headline us, 20 students from ų European countries, bought two old buses, Continue reading Why Africa? →

Music

Lithuanian folk

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Some unique sounds from our homeland – polyphonic singing.

Something, what brings all the people together.

If you are passing by through Vilnius – feel welcome to join us every Monday for a musical retreat. 🙂

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