Greenland, so far so beautiful!

Manu | 5 July 2016 | no comments
Greenland, so far so beautiful!

Greenland! A life time destination became true this summer! My first month has already gone, and with it tons of emotions, stunning landscape, amazing people, adventures, laugh and the daily feeling to be blessed to be in one of the most beautiful and unknown, untouched places of the planet. I learned a lot this month. […]

5 reasons why I go to …Cuba

Manu | 16 February 2016 | no comments
5 reasons why I go to …Cuba

  BAM!!! let’s make it official! In two days I am going to …Cuba!!! I have millions of reasons to go there, and not for what you hear since last year about the fact that if you don’t go now it will be changed forever in a couple of years. You don’t change a world […]

With Sanne, in Nairobi catching 1st impressions

Manu | 21 August 2015 | 2 comments
With Sanne, in Nairobi catching 1st impressions

Meet Sanne from I-Like-Local Sanne is the founder of I Like Local and currently living in Nairobi, Kenya. She is an entrepreneurial mind that loves to travel and meet people from different cultures. She believes that current systems need to change in order to keep up with today’s challenges and developments. With I Like Local […]

Travel and become a storyteller!

Manu | 19 January 2015 | no comments
Travel and become a storyteller!

 6 Funny travel stories and how I became a story teller One of the greatest things of traveling is surely the memories you bring back home for the rest of your life. They say traveling transforms you in a story teller and as soon as you start traveling you can experience how true it is. My […]

Fish River Canyon, wonder of Namibia

Manu | 28 October 2014 | no comments
Fish River Canyon, wonder of Namibia

The Fish River Canyon was the last signpost of Africa and of our trip, a very metaphorical travel landmark where we all realized we were getting to the end and most of all the real Africa had been left behind. A place of extraordinary beauty, the second biggest canyon in the world gave all of […]

Unbelievable places: Soussuvlei sand dunes, Namibia

Manu | 25 April 2014 | no comments
Unbelievable places: Soussuvlei sand dunes, Namibia

  Soussuvlei, its sand dunes, the highest in the world, its shapes and colours, its silence and beauty deserve a special places among the unbelievable places of Africa and of the planet. Namibia desert is neverending. For those arriving from North as we were at the time of those photos, for those coming from the […]

The most of Africa

Manu | 10 December 2013 | no comments
The most of Africa

Five months ago together with the crew of Vikings Across Africa we arrived at destination, in Cape Town and our trip in Africa had reached an end. It seems weird that so much time already passed. It seems weird to be back here and to think of that time as much as it was weird […]

Pisa, at the feet of its leaning tower

Manu | 23 September 2013 | 2 comments
Pisa, at the feet of its leaning tower

Despite the beauty of such an ancient, stylish and beautiful place such as Piazza de’ Miracoli in Pisa, despite the amazing view of the leaning tower, enchanting in it perfect shape, there is one thing that astonish you the most in that Medieval Square: the people, the thousands of tourists standing at the towers feet […]

Africa: your questions, my answers

Manu | 27 August 2013 | 1 comment
Africa: your questions, my answers

Here it’s some of the most common questions I had to answer once back home   How was it? How is Africa? Africa is a wonderful land and the trip was amazing. It is still too early to talk about it and tell you everything, I feel I have to absorb the thousands emotions felt […]

Unbelievable places: Kolmanskop, a ghost town of the desert

Manu | 1 August 2013 | no comments
Unbelievable places: Kolmanskop, a ghost town of the desert

  In the middle of the Southern desert, the one belonging to Namibia and to the Southern Hemisphere, Kolmaskop is a true gem, a pearl of beauty and silence, like the Desert that surrounds and hug it. It appears on the side of an unknown road that runs for kilometres without crossing any village or […]

Capetown, between black an white

Manu | 25 July 2013 | 4 comments
Capetown, between black an white

  We arrived in Cape Town with a bit of joy and a bit of sadness at the same time, and so it has been in all these days spent here. Cape Town welcomed us with all her majesty and splendour, in some sunny and warm days that made us forget the cold we had […]

The last day on the truck

Manu | 12 July 2013 | no comments
The last day on the truck

  It’s finishing and it’s surreal. The bags are packed, the truck is empty, life is ready to start again and an amazing chapter of all our lives is coming to an end. The last 24 hours on the truck have been absolutely crazy. Yesterday we spent the entire day packing up our stuff. Each […]

Etosha, into the wild

Manu | 6 July 2013 | no comments
Etosha, into the wild

“This is where humanity kicked off – it ‘s about time you came home” (Lonely planet Africa). Humanly speaking, that was indeed the feeling I had when I entered not only Namibia but Etosha National Park, too. The door to it actually opens up a new world, the world that belongs to Africa in the […]

Unbelievable places: Tundavala Abyss

Manu | 30 June 2013 | no comments
Unbelievable places: Tundavala Abyss

One of the most glorious and unexpected corner of paradise came out of the blue in the middle of our busy time crossing Angola. We were overnighting for a couple of days outside Lobango, in the garden of a beautiful guest house surrounded by the most friendly cats and dogs ever met on this trip. […]

Back to the Savannah in Angola

Manu | 26 June 2013 | no comments
Back to the Savannah in Angola

In Angola we have sadly left the rainforest landscape to come back to the infinite and much more spoiled view of the Savannah. The landscape has slowly started to change since we entered the country, the weather got dryer, and the nights chillier. We are running through Angola fast, as our visa is only for […]

And finally on the bad roads of DRC

Manu | 23 June 2013 | no comments
And finally on the bad roads of DRC

  We had been talking about them since the beginning of the trip, fearing them, waiting for them, imagining them but I think none of us really thought they could really be as bad as the reality showed us: DRC bad roads. We left Congo to enter DRC on the top of the most beautiful […]

Brazzaville, capital of Congo River

Manu | 15 June 2013 | no comments
Brazzaville, capital of Congo River

  Not so European like Libreville, neither so modern or cosmopolitan, Brazzaville is a real African capital, with a mix of old and new, trying to get closer to the new world but holding up a lot of features that remind you where you are: in the capital of Congo. I couldn’t feel more in […]

My Congolese birthday

Manu | 12 June 2013 | 1 comment
My Congolese birthday

  It was in Congo, at the border with Gabon, in a small village called Mbie, that I celebrated the special edition of my birthday this year. You may wonder how it is having a birthday on a truck, while travelling across Africa, and I can tell you it was special, and not for the […]

Gabon, close to the sun

Manu | 10 June 2013 | no comments
Gabon, close to the sun

It was in Gabon where we passed the Equator, going literally on the other side of the world. Just like the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator sign is in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in the rainforest, were the only company you can get is the one of the trees and of the men who […]

Kribi, last relaxing paradise

Manu | 25 May 2013 | no comments
Kribi, last relaxing paradise

  Kribi is one of those places that have nothing special but that you keep loving for the rest of your life.   The day we arrived in the village it was public holiday in Cameorun, and since the early afternoon all the people were in the street, chatting, drinking and most of all dancing […]