By jirka on 7. February 2017
Before you visit Iceland Iceland is a very expensive country. Every single thing, every single service will take a lot of money from your pocket. Plan carefully before you visit Iceland. Every day you spend in iceland that you haven’t planned for, is going to be quite expensive. There are several ways to spend your Iceland trip. Most […]
By jirka on 16. November 2016
Annapurna Circuit experience – first Himalayan trek Two years ago I visited Nepal for the first time. I have been there between two major events – one moth after the snow disaster in Thorong La (2014) and 5 moths before the catastrophic earthquake (2015) – obviously, I was lucky. I visited this country on my own so […]
By jirka on 2. November 2016
This is map of my traveling. Countries and places I have been visited. I hope that there will be more visited countries in the future.
By jirka on 31. October 2016
Garmin 64s – GPS device Garmin 64s is something like an electronic outdoor brother. I still use paper maps as well, but only as “overview maps”. I use GPS maps in terrain. Garmin 64s is quite a big device, but it is excellent. It has high-sensitivity GPS and GLONASS receiver and 3-axis electronic compass with barometric […]
By jirka on 22. October 2016
How to get maps for my GPS Garmin device? If you want to use commercial Garmin maps, you probably have to buy them. They are not cheap. But there are a lot of alternatives that will help you with orientation and navigation on your trek. You could download (stolen!) commercial Garmin maps for older Garmin devices (for […]
By jirka on 8. October 2016
Hi-tech trekking I made a decision to share some of my experience I have gathered during my travels. I used to use basic equipment during my trips ten years ago – usually a map (a paper one) and a compass. Today…today everything is much more sophisticated, hi-tech, smart and also expensive. There are many tools, […]
By jirka on 20. September 2016
Why travel to Georgia and where to go Georgia is a strange country. It is an Asian post-soviet country, nevertheless wherever you look there are signs that they would rather be a European country. Nobody can understand the Georgian language, but you can communicate in Russian with everybody. And then there are Caucasus mountains..naturally. I was […]
By jirka on 12. July 2016
Austrian Alps for short treks I had an opportunity to visit the Austrian part of the Alps at the beginning of July 2016. The Alps are a wide trekking area and it was not easy to choose the exact location. There were mainly two attractive options for us – Dachstein or Grossglockner. We finally made the decision to visit the Grossglockner […]
By jirka on 29. May 2016
Planning of the Tenerife trek What is the best option for Christmas holidays program? The best option is definitely visiting Tenerife – Canary Islands and sleep in the wild nature. The weather is good all year long, the views are amazing, there are no predators and really easy treks. So we went there and enjoyed our Christmas […]
By jirka on 22. May 2016
Planning of EBC trek During Christmas 2015 I started to plan my 2016 Himalayas trek. I have already visited the Annapurna area and this time I wanted to visit a different place. My first idea was the Langtang trek, but I was recommended to visit Everest area because of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal (which left […]