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2016 recap + blog news
December 30, 2016November 5, 2017 wayfarover

2016 recap + blog news

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It has been a strange year.

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What’s up? Travel plans update
October 7, 2016November 5, 2017 wayfarover

What’s up? Travel plans update

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Right now I feel like I’m in a disaster movie, standing on a beach somewhere and looking at a humongous wave crashing towards me. I’m

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Blog announcement + travel news!
February 26, 2016November 5, 2017 wayfarover

Blog announcement + travel news!

misc, plans

Someone might have wondered the bit of silence on the blog. It has been longer between posts than I would like, but as you probably

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New year, new… travel plans?
January 1, 2016February 19, 2018 wayfarover

New year, new… travel plans?

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Happy new year!

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habitual expat • llama enthusiast • unprofessional cheesecake chaser

If you see a redhead backpacker with a beat-up Olympus holding the map upside down, that’s probably me. To my mum’s utmost horror, I’ve been on and off the road since 2012 and can’t seem to stop. I’m Finnish and always searching for the perfect lipstick as well as a place to call home.
wayfarover is a blog dedicated to narratives about places foreign and familiar, doomed holiday romances, ethical globetrotting and off the beaten path solo adventures.

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Bali, Indonesia

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WHERE CAN YOU HIKE IN BALI? Surprisingly, there's WHERE CAN YOU HIKE IN BALI?

Surprisingly, there's still pretty decent hiking in Bali! (A 10-minute walk down to a waterfall doesn't count.) Here are a few of my favourite trails:

1. Mt Batukaru (in photo): a total bitch to climb but at least when you finish, you'll be in the Jatiluwih rice terraces, which is IMHO the prettiest area in Bali.

2. Mt. Lusang: a short crater hike that could be combined with a hike to the next peak, which is:

3. Mt. Sanghyang: a steep but short climb up to a mountaintop with some space for tents and awesome views towards the mountains around.

4. Mt. Abang: Batur, if Batur was cool. Hella steep climb but epic sunrise views over both Batur and Lombok island.

5. Munduk waterfall hike: super easy trail going past about a kazillion awesome waterfalls.

Mt. Batur is not on this list bc everyone climbs it, and Mt. Agung - the tallest mountain in Bali! - is still on my to-do list. Not for too much longer, though...
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#balibucketlist #balidaily #balihiking #outdooradventures #hikingculture #hikingindonesia #balitravel #womenwhohike #mountainstories #mundukbali #jatiluwih #campinglove #wildernessculture #mondolöytö
SPOTTING ELEPHANTS. For two days, I've been comin SPOTTING ELEPHANTS.

For two days, I've been coming to the salt lick, spurred by the knowledge that it is a spot frequented by elephants. So far I've only seen them in the road signs, warning of possible crossing points. And it seems like the black silhouette on yellow will remain my only sighting of elephants in Khao Yai national park.
It gets a little boring sitting in the observation tower alone. Not that I'm not used to it - I'm a habitual solo traveller. I love adventuring by myself. That's why I'm here alone. Not because I couldn't find someone to join me for this trip. Not because I haven't found someone to join me on my trips for years.
I did try, here and there... Conjuring real feelings out of everyday sweetness and stubbornly mistaking kindness for more. But after a while it starts to seem futile to chase down something that might never show up.
Before I leave the tower, I check the windows once again, and almost let my imagination run wild. Is that a trunk of an elephant? What's rustling in the woods? Is that rumbling the trumpeting sound of an approaching beast?
But the trunk is, quite literally, just a trunk; the rustling is deer; and the rumble grows and gets louder and turns into a ranger's motorbike.
I suppose for hopeful people everything looks elephant-shaped.
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#thailandtravel #maehongsonloop #wachirathanwaterfall #exploremore #girlpowertravel #sheisnotlost #chiangdao #femaledigitalnomads #solofemaletravel #travelinspiration #postcardsfromtheworld #wanderingwomen
I have come to a sad realisation... I might be ov I have come to a sad realisation...

I might be over hostels.

I was expecting it, to be honest. But it wasn't the lack of privacy in dorm rooms or the repetitive conversations about past and future travels. I just... Didn't fit anymore.

It clicked on my third night, in a Chiang Mai red taxi watching three drunk girls hang off the handlebars outside and belting out Alicia Keyes horribly out of tune. Instead of joining them, I wanted to tell them to get down before someone got hurt.

I look at the travellers around me and feel something like nostalgia because the elephant pants and happy hours and running out of money remind me of me. But that was me ten years ago and she's grown now. She has a steady job. She even has insurance!

So, even if travel hasn't lost its shine on me, staying in hostels has. It feels sentimental to know that a thing that was such an integral part of my life just ended on the down-low when I thought it was just on pause. It's like growing too big for your favourite shirt. But all things have their time... and maybe my time in hostels is up.

Would you still stay at hostels?
TRAVELLING THAILAND RIGHT NOW. 🐉🇹🇭 Thaila TRAVELLING THAILAND RIGHT NOW.
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Thailand was one of the first countries in SE Asia to open borders again, and currently they're scrapping pretty much all covid-related restrictions for fully vaxxed travellers. So, what's it like to be here right now?

✨ Thai people are still worried about Covid and most wear a mask. So, bring one!
✨ Hostels are BACK, babey! (Not for me but I'll talk about that some other day lolz.) There are tons of backpackers round these parts.
✨ You'll struggle in Thailand if you're not vaccinated. I've been asked for my vax certificate in the randomest places, including entering a national park.
✨ Everything's allowed to be open but tons of cafes/restos are (still, or permanently?) closed, so don't trust Google Maps opening hours.
✨ Peddlers and other trinket-sellers on streets are so much more chill than the last time I was here. Nice!

I've got more tips and stories coming later about Thailand! Are you planning a trip here anytime soon?
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#thailandtravel #amazingthailand #tourismthailand #adayinthailand #postcovidtravel #wheretofindme #bluetemplechiangrai #chiangraithailand #backpackerlife #solofemaletraveler #solofemaletravel #womenwhoexplore #sheisnotlost #travelinspiration
ON GOING&COMING BACK. If I could leave my body ri ON GOING&COMING BACK.

If I could leave my body right now and float up, see myself from the outside, this is what I’d see.

I see myself in the open doorway, hand on the key, and I can’t tell if I’m coming or leaving. I’ve been on both sides of the door so many times. The only difference is whether my backpack is heavy with tattered clothes and cheap souvenirs or new hopes and dreams.

The new worlds taunt me, they rip me apart from any familiar reality I have ever known, and I love them for it. But I am an unfaithful lover, a traitor – my new lives will never be enough as long as my roots extend to the hard, frozen soil of my homeland. And they are strong and steady, anchoring my heart forever to a place called home.

I will always stand there, straddling my two worlds, stuck in the in-between where leaving and coming back tear me apart in all the similar ways. This scene is stuck in an eternally spinning vortex, in the centre: me, making the decision to go again. And then come back.

As much as I am destined to go, I am destined to return. In this merry-go-round of life, it is never either-or. Go. Come back. Go. Come back.

Go, because I can.

And come back, because I cannot not.
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I found this little piece from years ago and thought it apt - after all, I'm travelling with a return ticket for the first time in YEARS. Hell, I brought my house keys! And it feels good. Fuck, does it feel good, to have somewhere to return to (even if it's not all that frozen) 😊
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#balivibes #balibucketlist #balidaily #myparadise #girlgoneglobal #sheisnotlost #adventurestartshere #wanderwoman #postcardsfromtheworld #digitalnomadlife #herwanderfullife
I've been thinking... I have been thinking of how I've been thinking...

I have been thinking of how
subtle change is; how one day you wake up and you're a person you've never been before.

But you never even knew you were changing; somewhere between now and then you slowly shifted into another skin, and I think it would be impossible to pinpoint the exact moment when you stopped being one and became the other.

You call people from high school friends long after we have stopped talking to them. 
You always say the same thing when people ask what your favourite movie is; but blink and ten years have passed when you never watched it again.
I always said my favourite colour was red but I look at my closet and think, 'I really do not own one piece of clothing in red.'

How slowly we change - how suddenly.
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Enjoy my random bursts of thoughts ✨ Do you think you're very different than you were, say, ten years ago?
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#bulgariatravel #mybulgaria #visitbulgaria #bansko #solofemalehiker #girlpowertravel #femaledigitalnomads #femaletravelbloggers #mountainstories #mytravelgram #wanderingwomen #womenwhohike
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