About

Hello and welcome to 1001 Unforgettable Trips!

We are Katja, Pierre and Boji, and getting to know this beautiful planet as much as possible is our passion. We’ve traveled to many well-known attractions, but also to many areas far away off the beaten tourist track. We’ve experienced the tremendous power and beauty of nature and the cultural diversity, friendliness and hospitality of many nations.

Chasing northern lights, exploring quirky Asian markets, trekking over sand dunes, camping next to a waterfall, organizing our own safari or climbing to the top of a snow-covered mountain are activities that give us real joy and a lasting sense of personal fulfillment.

Why You’ll Love Our Site

1001 Unforgettable Trips is our contribution to a better world. We share with you everything we know about worldwide travel, finding the soul of a place and getting into genuine contact with its people.

We also want to help you lead a simpler, healthier and more active life, rediscover the thrill of nature and the joy of getting in touch with foreign cultures. Last but not least, we show you various ways of easily reducing your CO₂ footprint.

In order to achieve these objectives, we invite you to:

• Browse our exciting travel descriptions and find inspiration for your next tour. We’ve grouped our suggestions by topic, climate and destination, and we’ve rated them by content, budget and required fitness level — you should have no problem finding a tour that truly fits your personal style and preferences.
• Read our detailed tour descriptions and find out all you need to plan and fully enjoy your next adventure: suggested travel time, where to sleep, what to eat, festivals to take part in, equipment you might need, etc. We also provide maps with points of interest and GPS coordinates for attractions, hikes and so on.
• Relax and enjoy — we research all destinations extensively and undertake all tours personally before we publish them here. Our descriptions contains only the most exciting destinations and the optimal way to experience them — a selection we make after spending a longer time at each location, exploring various sights and trying out various modes of transportation.
• Travel as you like, with the people you like. With all the information we bring you, it’s a breeze to motivate a few friends and organize the trip exactly as you like — boot camp, luxury resort or something in between — it’s your personal decision.
• Travel more. By taking trip organization into your own hands you save thousands of dollars that you can invest in future trips or better equipment.
• Explore our travel know-how section and read our equipment tests. Because being better prepared and using the right gear is guaranteed to make your tours safer, more comfortable and ultimately more fun.
• If selecting and organizing a trip is too much for a first step, attempting a fun travel-related challenge and getting inspired by all the ways that other travelers completed it might be just the way to get you motivated.

We are building 1001 Unforgettable Trips for you

We started this site in April of 2014, and we are working really hard to turn all our ideas into reality. Instead of keeping the site private until it’s brimming with content, we decided to make it visible immediately, so you can follow our progress daily and guide us with your feedback. Our number one goal is to make the planning and carrying out of your tours as easy and enjoyable as possible. So please take a moment and fill out our 5-questions reader survey. This will help us understand what kind of a traveler you are, what difficulties you are facing when preparing for a trip and how we can best help you have the best possible experiences while traveling.

We Need Your Talent and Travel Experiences

There are various ways you can contribute to this site:

• You are an experienced traveler, have visited various exciting locations and are willing to share your experiences with our readers.
• You are a copywriter? English is not even our native language, so if you are good with words we definitely need your help.
• We have many ideas and from time to time we need custom WordPress functionality, so we’d be happy to get to know an experienced plugin-writer.

If our goals inspire you, please get in touch and let’s have a chat about how we can work together.

Katja, Pierre and Boji
June, 2014
Hamburg, Germany