OH_DK's VirtualTourist Home Page

I intend to build up my travel pages little by little and tell you about my travels along the way. I will try to make tips that is usefull for travelers who haven't been to a place before, but I'll also add my personal impression of what the tip is about. If information in my tips is not correct or need an update please let me know.

I have a lot of photos from my travels in Europe, North and Central America from the 80s and 90s. Most of them are taken with my old camera and are not digital.
I found out that it takes quite some time to build and organize these pages and tips - and I prefer to go traveling instead of sitting too long time infront of the computer.
I'm interested in traveling, music, photografy, nature, people, genealogy, hiking, sports like: cycling, inline skating, skiing, sailing, badminton etc.

I really have enjoyed all the meets, events and travels I've been to since I joined VT January 2007 and have had fun surfing around on the pages of the members all over the world. I hope you will also enjoy looking at my travel pages and maybe can use my tips.
All my pages will be under constantly construction - I will go back to pages when I get new ideas, have better photos or want to add more tips.

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One week with VT friends in Slovenia, February 2008
In February I was in Slovenia where I met with VT'ers Tuna_ank and paragianna75.
We stayed in the idyllic little town Bled in northern Slovenia not far from the Austrian border. We rented some rooms in a local house and did a lot of touring around in the mountains.
One day we went to the skiresort "Vogel" in Bohinj vally and went skiing with a great view to the highest mountain of Slovenia "Triglav".
We also arranged a VT meet in Ljubljana where we met the local VT'er mircaskirca (Mira) and were eating in a nice restaurant "Pri Skofu".

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Euromeet in Karleruhe "Back to the roots", May 2008
In May I was supposed to participate in a sail race in Denmark "Fyncup" but the sailboat went into a stone and was damaged. Instead I checked my old Citroen and drove 900 km. down to VT Euromeet in Karlsruhe. Have a look at my Karlsruhe page and my Heidelberg page.

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1 week in Iceland, June 2008
In June I spend a good week in the old Viking country Iceland aka "Land of ice and fire". You can also call it Land of beautiful waterfalls, Geysers, hot water, lava fields, volcanoes, Icelandic horses, great nature with millions of sea birds, whales and fish. I will soon set up an Iceland page, when more of my photos are ready. Here you have my first waterfall photo from Iceland ;-) - this is "Skógafoss" in South Iceland.
I was there with group of 20 Slovenes. We stayed 4 days in Reykjavik 4 days in a small village Grennivik on the north coast. We were traveling in a little bus, and saw a lot of beautiful sights and attractions.

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Roadtrip in Poland and Baltic Sea area, Aug. 2008
In August I was in Poland, Bornholm and Skĺne (southern Sweden) with my VT friends Tuna_ank and paragianna75. We rented a car in Warsaw and drove to Krakow, Wroclaw and Poznan.
We also went to visit Lena44u in Szamotuly (near Poznan) - we had a great time with her and her family.
After one day with Lena we went up to the Baltic coast, and took a boat to the island Bornholm, Denmark (aka Pearl of the Baltic Sea) - spend two days there and then took an other boat to Skĺne, Sweden and finally we came to Copenhagen where I was guide for Tuna_ank a few days.
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This photo is taken just before sunset in Göreme, Turkey (a little village in Cappadocia). We were a group of 5 VT'ers 2 Turkish, 1 Greek and 2 Danes who were going to fly in hot air balloon the next morning at sunrise. This is the view over Göreme - we were just having a glass of local white wine while watching the sunset - fantastic light on the strange landscape around Göreme with so called "Fairy chimneys" all over the place.

This landscape is the result of volcanic activity some 14 million years ago I read. A big layer of "tuff" (consolidated volcanic ash) was covered by a thin layor of harder rock (more resistant to erosion) and through million of years erosion formed these fantastic Fairy chimneys.
People has lived here for the last approx. 8000 years. You can find caves, churches, houses, underground villages and even a little castle in Uchisar on the highest point in the region all build in this soft tuff stone.
First Epistle of Peter in the Bible was written to people in this region.
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The island Sark - one of the smalest states with own flag

The horse George (photo) took us on a sight seeing tour on the small dirt roads on the island. George was clever and knew all the roads - the woman just told him where to go and we came there.

In 2007 I visited Sark with good friends. Sark is one of the Channel Islands between England and France and considered the last feudal state in Europe. It's about 5,4 square km. and the population is about 600.

It's a car-free zone and only vehicles allowed are horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles, tractors, and battery-powered buggies or motorised bicycles for elderly or disabled people.
Read more about Sark in this link.

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Back in the 80s I went on a 4 month backpacking trip to Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.
Have a look at my Guatemala page,, Chichicastenango page,, Lago de Atitlan page, and Santiago Atitlan page.
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The warior ship returned to Roskilde in 2008
This viking ship "Havhingsten fra Glendalough" is an exact copy of the 1000 year old ship "Skuldelev 2" that was excavated in the fjord of Roskilde. The ship is build the same way the vikings did, it's 30 m long and good for a crew of 65 vikings. After sailing from Roskilde to Dublin, Ireland in the period July 1st to Aug. 14th 2007 the ship was in a Dublin museum for the winter and in the summer 2008 it sailed back to Roskilde. This is the first viking ship crossing the North Sea in 1000 years. Click on the link above to read more about this voyage. Are you interested in vikings then see my tips on my Roskilde page.
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