Category Archives: Travel

Wilderness Travel: Hiking Oregon’s Timberline Trail

Kraig Adams Films (August 13, 2023) – Timberline Trail is a hiking trail around Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is mostly in wilderness but also goes near Timberline Lodge, Cloud Cap Inn, and Mount Hood Meadows ski area.

Video timeline: 00:00 Timberline Lodge 1:12 Ramona Falls – Day 1 (28 miles) 7:33 Cloud Cap – Day 2 (14 miles) 10:28 Panorama Ridge 12:36 Vancouver13:23 Timberline Trail behind the scenes 15:56 Portland

Travel Guide: A One-Day Tour Of Trieste In Italy

DW Travel (August 13, 2023) – DW reporter Meggin Leigh tours Trieste, the capital city of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. A port city, it occupies a thin strip of land between the Adriatic coast and Slovenia’s border on the limestone-dominated Karst Plateau.

Video timeline: 00:00 Intro 00:22 Coffee at Antico Caffé Torinese 00:54 Piazza Unità d’Italia 01:16 Piazza della Borsa 01:32 Teatro Romano di Trieste 02:52 Arco di Riccardo 03:43 Old Town 04:18 Lunch at Buffet da Pepi restaurant 05:39 Grand Canal and the memorial of James Joyce 06:52 La Bomboniera pastry shop 07:47 Miramare castle

Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Slovenian influences are all evident in its layout, which encompasses a medieval old city and a neoclassical Austrian quarter.

Travel Guide: The 16 Best Places To Visit In Norway

touropia (August 11, 2023) – A travel guide to the top 16 places to visit in Norway including:

  1. Geirangerfjord
  2. Lofoten Islands
  3. Bergen
  4. Jotunheimen National Park
  5. Svalbard
  6. Stavanger
  7. Sognefjord
  8. Oslo
  9. Trondheim
  10. Tromso

Norway is a Scandinavian country encompassing mountains, glaciers and deep coastal fjords. Oslo, the capital, is a city of green spaces and museums. Preserved 9th-century Viking ships are displayed at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum. Bergen, with colorful wooden houses, is the starting point for cruises to the dramatic Sognefjord. Norway is also known for fishing, hiking and skiing, notably at Lillehammer’s Olympic resort. 

Wildlife Film Trailers: ‘A Prairie Dog’s Life’ (2023)

Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam – WFFR (August 11, 2023) – On the plains of South Dakota, a community of rodents struggles to survive under harsh conditions. In addition, quarrels and conflicts within the colony make life quite difficult… But thanks to a special ‘dog language’, they can prevent attacks from coyotes and badgers.

Filmmaker: Philippe Moreau (Frankrijk, 51 min, 2023)

Culinary Travels: Chef Luigi Stinga In Abu Dhabi

A chef’s tour around Abu Dhabi with Italian chef of one-MICHELIN star restaurant Talea by Antonio Guida, Luigi Stinga, taking food content creator, Harry Heal, around the city he now calls home.

We follow the pair as they explore the UAE capital; from the Malaysian eatery he regularly visits, the vegetable farm and bee farm near his restaurant, to the secluded sand bar he considers his little piece of paradise. Together, they spend their day adventuring around the chef’s favorite hidden gems in Abu Dhabi.

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Travel Tour: The Mystical Beauty Of Cambodia (4K)

Clairmont Films (August 10, 2023) – Cambodia is a Southeast Asian nation whose landscape spans low-lying plains, the Mekong Delta, mountains and Gulf of Thailand coastline.

Phnom Penh, its capital, is home to the art deco Central Market, glittering Royal Palace and the National Museum’s historical and archaeological exhibits. In the country’s northwest are the ruins of Angkor Wat, a massive stone temple complex built during the Khmer Empire.

Michigan Travel: A Tour Of The Upper Peninsula

National Geographic (August 9, 2023) – From mountain biking to experiencing the northern lights, join National Geographic Photographer Michael George as he explores Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

The Upper Peninsula is a forested region in Michigan bordering 3 of the Great Lakes and extending outward from Wisconsin. It’s connected to Michigan’s Lower Peninsula by the roughly 5-miles-long Mackinac Bridge, which spans the Straits of Mackinac.

Sandwiched between the 2 peninsulas is Mackinac Island, a car-free vacation destination with the iconic 1887 Grand Hotel and the Victorian-era Fort Mackinac. 

Scandinavia Walks: The Baltic Sea Summerhouse

Stockholm Walks Films (August 9, 2023) – A summer walk by a cottage on the Baltic Sea. Many Swedes have summer homes, and actually prefer them to be rather old fashioned without modern comfort.

Hang up your hand washed clothes outside and take a morning swim instead of a shower no matter the temperature and forget about indoor plumbing. A traditional sauna is what saves you those cold summers when the rain keeps pouring.

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Weather: ‘Vorticity 5’ – A Storm Time-Lapse Film

Mike Olbinski Films (August 8, 2023) – Vorticity 5 took two years to film. Tens of thousands of miles across the central United States, from Montana to the Texas/Mexico border. A few hundred thousand shutter clicks. Loads of McDonalds, Subway and Allsups.

The most epic, cheap motels. And countless, stunning storms. This is the first time for any movie of mine where I have tornadoes AND haboobs make appearances. The haboob (dust storm) happened in May of 2022 in southwest Kansas. It was amazing and unexpected. Of all the clips that make up this film, I’m the most proud of that one.

It was like my world of chasing in Arizona finally collided with the universe of supercells and tornadoes on the plains. I hope you enjoy this film. The colors, the storms, the lightning, the twisters and the dust. It’s everything I love, everything I am continually awestruck by no matter how long I do this.

Museum Views: The Isle Of Wight – Dinosaur Island

Natural History Museum (August 8, 2023) – The Isle of Wight is a traditional British holiday resort. It’s well-known for its beautiful sandy beaches, dramatic cliffs, stunning countryside and many tourist attractions.

Video timeline: 0:00 A brief history of the Isle of Wight 1:13 Theo Vickers tells us about the geology of the island 1:35 Jack Wonfor talks about the diversity of fossil remains and how it is the best place in Europe for dinosaur discovery 2:02 Dr Susannah Maidment explains as to why the island is so good for dinosaur finds 2:35 Over 20 dinosaur species so far have been discovered on the Isle of Wight 2:52 Prof Paul Barrett tells us about the early palaeontologists, including William Fox and Sir Richard Owen 3:15 The Isle of Wight early dinosaur discoveries helped form much of what we know about dinosaurs today. 3:50 Original dinosaur discoveries are still relevant today. 4:15 New dinosaurs still being found today. 4:33 The dinosaurs found on the Isle of Wight. Iguanodon, Polacanthus, Omithopods, Sauropods, Neovenator and Eotyrannus. 5:26 How could you make your own discovery? 5:34 Techniques for finding dinosaur remains. 6:06 Dinosaur Island, the Isle of Wight’s excellent museum of geology, where there are many dinosaurs and fossils. 6:52 Why the Isle of Wight is a lovely place to visit. 7:08 how it is so easy to find a fossil on the beach.

But did you know that it is also the best place in Europe to find dinosaurs and the fossils of numerous other prehistoric animals, from ammonites to alligators?

Join our palaeontologists Dr Susannah Maidment and Professor Paul Barrett, as well as local experts, to discover what makes the Isle of Wight so special to them.