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  The Kalahari Desert gets its name from the Tswana word Kgalagadi which means the great thirst. And for most people when they think of the word desert it makes them conjure up huge expanses of yellow, dry sand. Furthermore very limited or no green vegetation, no flowers, and little too limited animals, a scorpion here and there, maybe a snake, but nothing more. These animals will only be sneaking out in the middle of the night when the temperature is cooled down to avoid the blistering daytime heat. . The choices of the desert you will see below, however, will give you so much more than just sand and death. In the Kalahari, you can find lions, leopards, cheetahs, and caracals. Many do not even know what it is or where it is located, but wow, is it worth a trip. The Kalahari Desert is 360,000 square miles of utterly beautiful nature stretching across not only South Africa but also Botswana and Namibia. It is a window into a world so differen...

Where I come from we joke about the fact that you can see a rabbit for 5 days (because it is that flat). And it is one of the things I love and hate about Denmark. I love it every time I get on my bicycle and I don’t have to turn up sweaty at my appointment or meeting. I had a job where I worked as a sort of consultant and multiple destinations in a radius of 20 kilometers and I had to bicycle between them and between 10-20 km every day. I loved it and I loved Denmark for being flat. I loved that the only reason I would turn up soaked for a meeting was the rain (which occasionally happened since we do have around 172 days of rain in Denmark. It feels like a lot less these days but statistically checking those are the approximate numbers).  I have a different job now, and a car but how I miss my bicycling days and the freedom of taking my bicycle for everything I’ve done most of my life. School - I cycled, high school - I cycled. Dance classes - I cycled. University- cycled. ...