I think that there is no place of our wonderful planet that does not deserve interest and attention: the smallest country, the most forgotten region, have always something to reveal if looked closely enough.
I love travelling in near and far parts of the world, always attempting not to be a "tourist", but striving to understand as much as possible of the country I am visiting: of course, gone are the days of the "Great Tour", and of the discovery voyages, when travelling could mean months or years away from home... but one can always try to keep at least the spirit of the "discovery" inside.
I like trekking, since more than 20 years I am wandering the hills and mountains of the region of Italy where I was born and where I live, Emilia Romagna, and I am still discovering new and interesting places any time I want to change!
During a period of about 10 years, I had the chance to have a glimpse of Nepal, Australia, Iceland, Egypt, the Hoggar mountains in the Sahara desert, China, the United States, Turkey, Morocco, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, and then the great love with Africa: Botswana, Mali, and lastly Tanzania and the Mount Kilimanjaro...
Many
of this travels have been made possible thanks to Avventure
nel Mondo, an Italian organization that helps you meet other people
that want to go in the same place at the same time as you, and supplies
a certain degree of travel organization, always with the underlying philosophy
of minimum impact and maximum contact with the culture of the destination
country.
Some
of my most beautiful rememberings come from these experiences, and I hope
to find the time, in the near future, for describing and documenting at
least one or two of them with this wonderful media that the www is!
