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JOURNEYS
"Travelling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller",
by Ibn Battuta.
Our journeys are bold and ambitious, and perhaps the flagship of this homepage.
Although we are also trekking and island nerds, our journeys are sorts of trailblazing travel expeditions which are unique, challenging and adventurous, and thus they epitomize our spirit within adventure.
Often, the regions, countries and places we visit during our journeys take on an exotic quality. What matters is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. Often, we might have to overcome a bit of hardship and logistical challenges since our journeys most often don’t run smoothly. This is all part of the fun.
In our view, a journey is something you would recommend to others. To us, what really matters, is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. We are not talking about the ultimate expedition, but to move away from the familiar, out of the comfort zone, where everyday situations and events take on an exotic quality.
Selected
JOURNEYS
"Travelling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller",
by Ibn Battuta.
Our journeys are bold and ambitious, and perhaps the flagship of this homepage.
Although we are also trekking and island nerds, our journeys are sorts of trailblazing travel expeditions which are unique, challenging and adventurous, and thus they epitomize our spirit within adventure.
Often, the regions, countries and places we visit during our journeys take on an exotic quality. What matters is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. Often, we might have to overcome a bit of hardship and logistical challenges since our journeys most often don’t run smoothly. This is all part of the fun.
In our view, a journey is something you would recommend to others. To us, what really matters, is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. We are not talking about the ultimate expedition, but to move away from the familiar, out of the comfort zone, where everyday situations and events take on an exotic quality.
Selected
JOURNEYS
"Travelling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller",
by Ibn Battuta.
Our journeys are bold and ambitious, and perhaps the flagship of this homepage.
Although we are also trekking and island nerds, our journeys are sorts of trailblazing travel expeditions which are unique, challenging and adventurous, and thus they epitomize our spirit within adventure.
Often, the regions, countries and places we visit during our journeys take on an exotic quality. What matters is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. Often, we might have to overcome a bit of hardship and logistical challenges since our journeys most often don’t run smoothly. This is all part of the fun.
In our view, a journey is something you would recommend to others. To us, what really matters, is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. We are not talking about the ultimate expedition, but to move away from the familiar, out of the comfort zone, where everyday situations and events take on an exotic quality.
Selected
JOURNEYS
"Travelling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller",
by Ibn Battuta.
Our journeys are bold and ambitious, and perhaps the flagship of this homepage.
Although we are also trekking and island nerds, our journeys are sorts of trailblazing travel expeditions which are unique, challenging and adventurous, and thus they epitomize our spirit within adventure.
Often, the regions, countries and places we visit during our journeys take on an exotic quality. What matters is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. Often, we might have to overcome a bit of hardship and logistical challenges since our journeys most often don’t run smoothly. This is all part of the fun.
In our view, a journey is something you would recommend to others. To us, what really matters, is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. We are not talking about the ultimate expedition, but to move away from the familiar, out of the comfort zone, where everyday situations and events take on an exotic quality.
Selected
JOURNEYS
"Travelling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller",
by Ibn Battuta.
Our journeys are bold and ambitious, and perhaps the flagship of this homepage.
Although we are also trekking and island nerds, our journeys are sorts of trailblazing travel expeditions which are unique, challenging and adventurous, and thus they epitomize our spirit within adventure.
Often, the regions, countries and places we visit during our journeys take on an exotic quality. What matters is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. Often, we might have to overcome a bit of hardship and logistical challenges since our journeys most often don’t run smoothly. This is all part of the fun.
In our view, a journey is something you would recommend to others. To us, what really matters, is to get away from the established routes and seek something that little bit more special and authentic. We are not talking about the ultimate expedition, but to move away from the familiar, out of the comfort zone, where everyday situations and events take on an exotic quality.
From Europe to the Himalayas along
THE HIPPY TRAIL
Part II
From Europe to the Himalayas along
THE HIPPY TRAIL
Part II
From Europe to the Himalayas along
THE HIPPY TRAIL
Part III
From Europe to the Himalayas along
THE HIPPY TRAIL
Part III
TravelTwins.dk
Exploring the less beaten paths of the world
- look, read, dream, travel!
Exploring the less beaten paths of the world
Meet Anders and Jakob, two Danish travelers (born 1982) with endless curiosity about remote regions and a big passion for exploring the less beaten parts of the world. We have toured across many continents and oceans with little less than a bag of clothes in the one hand and a camera in the other, and we would love to share some of our experiences. So, we've made this homepage to inform, inspire, and ultimately engage fellow travelers by showing selected, inspirational travel pictures from our many travels. Our homepage was launched in 2006 and is already a serious travel resource platform.
Surf around our pages and get stimulated. It is our hope that we can add value to the travel itineraries of our peer group: persons where each new travel and destination sparks the ideas and foundations for five more. If our pictures can challenge opinions, bring important perspectives to the table and add “edge” to your next where-to-go decision we are more than happy!
Jakob & Anders before a cold-water SCUBA-dive to the "Kontiki Wreck", off the island of Funen, Denmark,
during an unusually warm Sunday morning in September 2016
Our travels and travel philosophy
We've both been to 100+ countires and, collectively, we have travled across more than 130 countries and territories, but this homepage only chronicles selected pictures from selected distinations. The general gist is to focus on people, nature, landscape and adventure photos from less beaten parts of the world as well as a few classics. We pledge to experience some of the places no one knew about and some of the countries you struggle to spell and those which raise an eyebrow over dinner. We don’t want to read about them, we want to feel them for ourselves. We want to make up our own minds and to be part of the story ourselves.
It is not our mission to tick off countries from a list. Although we strive to visit new places, we tend to return to the same places. For instance, this is why we've spent four months in India, five months in Indonesia, etc. When we visit a country or region, the ambition is never to exhaustively visit all must-do's and sights. We always strive to select unique places where typical selection criteria are: remoteness, word-of-mouth-uniqueness, people & culture, and gut-feeling when looking at an atlas. Proximity to either climbable high mountains and volcanoes or world-class dive sites has an additional pull.
Bitten by the travel bug
We are from Denmark, the small Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. Anders lives in Denmark with his wife and three kids. Jakob lives in metropolitan New York (US) with his wife and three kids. As the homepage name suggests we're twins, and we've always liked playing around together with different projects, such as taking our kids on canoo trips, participating in entreprenurship challenges to build new businesses, and builiding edgy travel itineraries to take us to exotic places. That is why we’ve decided to make this homepage to chronicle selected journeys, treks, and island travels.
Raised in the 80ies and 90ies our parents took us through most of Europe as well as USA and Canada, although with a strong bias towards traversing France in a camping wagon. As kids, we laso did a few hiking trips in the Alps with our bold big brother who was six years of age ahead of us and was alrady scaling Mont Blanc and other summits.
As teens we went several times on our own to trek along and climb mountains in Lapland, North Sweden, and the Norwegian Alps. Around the age of 14 or so, we both decided that we would live an adventurous life, and we havn't stopped since. Therefore, during our late teens, we strived towards developing solid trekking, camping, cold management, cooking, SCUBA-diving, skin-diving, navigation, foraging, canoo, kayak, etc. skills that we try to sustain to this date.
Then, we both had af few post-highschool years and did university studies. During this period, from 2001 to 2009, both of us traveled 3+ months every single year, primarily in third-world countries and regions. Thus, we did tons of travelling, hiking, mountain climbing and diving all over South East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East, Latin America, and a bit of Micronesia and North Africa. Some of these travels we did together, others were together with our girlfriends (and wives today, respectively) and childhood and university friends, and finally some of the travels were undertaken completely solo.
Since 2010, we've both lived more "ordinary lives" with wives, kids, houses, summer houses, and steep careers. In this period and as of today, in terms of "big travels" we both have a focus on expeditions into Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent and much of Asia as well as an emerging focus on visiting islands in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Next to this, we continuously and opportunistically perform travel-oriented micro-adventures i in Europe and North America, where we live, respectively.
Copyright details
If you have a question regarding travel planning or certain destinations please feel free to contact us.
Anders: andersmadsenpedersen (at) gmail (dot) com
Jakob: jakobmp28 (at) hotmail (dot) com
All pictures are of course © Anders & Jakob Pedersen.
A bit of history:
Hiking in the Vogeser Mountains, France - a special place that we would return to more than 6 times in the 1990ies.
Trekking in the Rockies, Lake Tahoe, California, USA.
On a longer trek in Sarek National Park in Lapland - one of the last wilderness areas in Europe. We started doing week-long trekking tours outside Denmark on our own from the age of 16.
Scaling Mount Glittertinnen in Central Norway during a private expedition.
Fintuning our SCUBA-diving skills during a couple of months in Thailand - here at Koh Tao. Since then, we've dived in probably more than 50 different countries/ territories - from Iceland over Iran to South Africa.
Looking a bit scared of the shark diving that we were about to try out! During our Indonesian traverse and a long travel across South East Asia in 2004.
The first of many travels across the Philippine archipelago during the next 10 years.
2 months in Iran & Kurdistan, and climbing the highest point in the Middle East, Mt. Damavand
Trekking on Mount Kenya and visiting national parks across Kenya, during autumn.
Traveling around South of France. The highlight was the wedding of our friends living in Montpelier
Across the Rwenzori Massif on the border between DR Congo and Uganda.
Preparing a SCUBA-dive during a sailing trip across the Cote d'Azur, France - in early spring.
Traveling in Saudi Arabia.
Island hopping and trekking in the northern Atlantic across the Shetland Islands with four of our six kids.
Traveling in Iraq, here at the prison used by Saddam Hussein, in Sulaimanyeh
Back in Iraq - this time traveling from Baghdad to Basra - here at Ur, the oldest known civilization in the world, together with their private guard and driver
Traveling during two weeks across 10 islands in the Turks & Caicos archipelago together with our families respectively