About Globe Spots

Bo is the founder of Globe Spots and has been a professional traveller (tour leading and travel photography) since 2003. He has travelled in more than 150 countries and lived under different excuses in India, Australia, Japan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and England (and a bit in Denmark too). One of his greatest adventures was his motorcycle journey from North America to South America.

About the picture:
The picture is from my trekking trip into the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan. Crossing the border from Tajikistan into Afghanistan at Ishkashim was fairly straight forward, but the journey into the Wakhan Corridor (and back again) was far from ordinary. But logistics aside, it was an amazing experience meeting the semi-nomadic Wakhi people. And the mountain views (into Pakistan) wasn't too bad either.

With a master’s degree in Global Studies, the world always interested Ask (yes, that is actually his real name). However, his passion for travelling far surpasses the one for books, so he rather travels than putting his education to good use. The 80-some countries he has visited so far have mostly been parts of long overland trips; Ask considers flying cheating and tries hard to avoid travelling by plane if at all possible.
He has a weakness for conflict areas, unrecognised territories and train journeys, and at various times he has found himself in places such as the Trans-Siberian Railway, Nagorno-Karabakh and Iraqi Kurdistan – but he has also done more mainstream activities like worked as a dive-master in the Caribbean.

About the picture:
I have always been fascinated by the strange and unique places of the world. So when I visited Turkmenistan back in June 2013, I simply had to visit the “Door to Hell”. Even if it meant risking getting lost in the desert trying to find it. The Soviet engineers who sat the crater on fire in 1971 estimated that the gas reserve would burn out in six days; 42 years after, it was still burning with no end in sight. 70 meters in diameter and 25 meters deep, the Darzava Gas Crater certainly lives up to its nickname.

Joe is not really one to adhere to labels. But the overused term of 'nomad' would describe him best. Since leaving his native Canada in the early '90s, he hasn't really looked back. Fitting everything he owns into his backpack, he moves from job to job and country to country in a seemingly never-ended global circumnavigation. After years in far East Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East, including working (and evacuation) from Yemen, and a project in Iraq, Joe needed a major geographic shift. After a couple years in the most dangerous city in the world, Caracas, Venezuela, it was time for a much needed change of pace. Nowadays, Joe finds himself setting up education centres in Northern India. Where's next? Who knows?

About the picture:
Venezuela is hardly a tourist hotspot these days. With the highest crime rates in the world, hyper-inflation and rapidly changing rules of law, it's not the sort of place you just wander around. This is especially true when you carry a big camera. Selfies aren't my thing, but when the moment strikes, and there's no one around, you have to steal your moments. Sailing to the remote La Tortuga Island, wind in my hair, sun on my face, it was time to let my hair down.. literally!

Marcus is a world-renowned conservation, people, and landscape photographer and writer. Originally from Sweden, he works primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa with organisations such as the National Geographic Society, African Parks, Luambe Conservation and publications such as bioGraphic and Vagabond.

About the picture:
Tracking gorillas is always exhilarating, but nowhere else is it as exciting as in eastern DRC, where there are both eastern lowland (in Kahuzi-Biega NP) and mountain gorillas (in Virunga NP).

When not travelling Heidi is probably planning some trip or dreaming about the next time she will be hitting the road. Some trips are "professional" as a tour guide but she does try to take out enough time per year to (re)discover places, just as a traveller. Heidi has a weak spot for travelling to special events such as Carnaval in Brazil.

About the picture:
Whenever I guide a trip to Madagascar we go on a day excursion to Nosy Tanikely, close to Nosy Be. A full lunch is always included with tons of delicious seafood. Most people don't have the patience for the crab so I end up finishing every piece of crab, taking my time and making a big mess. Luckily the sea is just a stone's throw away to clean up!

Vibe is working as Chief of Events at a bank, but is originally educated as an anthropologist.
Vibe is, furthermore, a member of The Travellers' Club of Denmark, and when she is not nurturing her structural fascist tendencies at work, she engages in her passion for travel photography going on safari in Kenya, trekking in the Himalayas, shooting musk oxen in the wilderness of Greenland, and on adventurous travels to places like The Amazon, The Galapagos Islands, Tibet, India, Patagonia, Iceland, old French Indochina, and the many wonders of the world.

About the picture:
This picture is taken in a small cheap alley street restaurant in downtown Beijing, China.
I wanted to try eating something unusual and my guide found this donkey restaurant, where every course on the menu involved donkey meat. Skipped the donkey penis and went for a donkey sandwich instead….

Ed has travelled to 50 countries and lived in six, much of that in attempts to satisfy his fascination with wild places and their inhabitants, particularly tribal and nomadic people. For the last few years he has got stuck exploring the vastness of the former Soviet Union, with an emphasis on Siberia, the Far East, the Arctic and Central Asia. At the moment he is teaching English in Moscow in between leading trips to the nomadic Nenets reindeer herders of Arctic Siberia's Yamal Peninsula (Yamal Peninsula Travel).

About the picture:
This picture was taken after I'd spent six hours outdoors in -40 °C on the Yamal Peninsula photographing a Nenets brigade which was preparing to move camp. Despite multiple layers of reindeer fur clothing, I couldn't imagine it being possible to feel any colder until, on a more recent trip, I had to travel for eight hours by snowmobile in the same temperature!

Marie-Eve doesn't travel as much as she would like to. But to trick her brain into thinking she does a lot more, she is an active behind-the-scene collaborator on Globe Spots. A language enthusiast, she makes a point of honour to try to learn as much of the local dialect as she can when she gets to a new place, even if it's just for a few days. Among the languages she attempted to master (some with much more success than others): Romanian, English, Kinyarwanda, French, Russian, Papiamento, Armenian, Québec Sign Language, Serbian, Dublin Core, JavaScript and Klingon.

About the picture:
On the northwestern tip of Grande Comore island, in the Comoros, is a little untapped paradise between Trou du Prophète and Mitsamiouli. While walking from pristine (and deserted) beach to even more pristine (yet still deserted) beach, we stumbled upon a battered hotel. When asked if they had anything to drink, the only employee on site started by saying no, but then said he could offer coconut water, to which we happily agreed since it was the only hotel or restaurant in the area. As we sat on the patio, we heard cracking sounds a few metres away just to discover the same employee climbing a tall palm tree to pick our coconuts. It was my first time drinking coconut water directly from the coconut. And it was the freshest, for sure.

Charlie has always had a passion for travelling and has been doing so ever since finishing school. He grew up living between California and Hawaii. He worked in Borneo for a year and a half and was able to travel throughout Southeast Asia. He has travelled through Central America, and is planning to continue his travelling soon.

About the picture:
After spending 8 months working in Borneo, I had always been looking for nocturnal primates, with no luck of finding them. Finally made a little luck for myself and managed to see two Western tarsiers and a Slow loris in 4 days. I feel like this picture dipicts my delightment on finding this furry little guy

In times gone by it was necessary to join the army for travel and adventure. Andre is so glad times have changed!
After extensive travel in South East Asia over recent years, Andre has almost completed a journey from Melbourne, Australia right across to Central Europe without the assistance of flight.

About the picture:
After traveling for extended periods, a lot of what should seem amazing begins to feel a little mundane. Such is the extent of this fatigue that you begin opting for a day watching movies on your laptop over checking out, let's say, The Forbidden Palace in Beijing. And then you'll travel somewhere or see something that is just so amazing that you can't take your eyes off it (except of course to have a picture taken!!). For me that was Mt. Everest. It is such a grand sight that you can't help but be overcome by the experience. It also means that you don't need to force a smile for the photo!!

Chris a.k.a starcruza left Australia in 2005 on little more than a whim to earn some strong English pounds before setting off into the unknown. Over 7 years later he has found a way to work and travel his way around the globe, usually in Ski Fields, Bars and Super Yachts which has taken him to some of the most exotic destinations around the world. Chris is an avid photographer and it's highly unlikely you'll ever catch him without a camera on his person, be that jumping out of planes, underwater, in the snow or hanging off things. With his lust for adrenalin you can be sure to hear of all the "extreme" activities on offer in any destination.

About the picture:
This photo was taken in Gocek, Turkey as my crew shot for the website of a newly launched Super Yacht that I worked on for 2 years. The launch date was continually stretched out by the manufacturing company, leaving us an ever shrinking period of time to prepare the boat for the boss who was obviously very keen to play with his new 56 metre sail toy. We spent most of that summer cruising around Turkey and enduring the crazy heat, sometimes over 45 degrees. I was the bosun onboard the boat, meaning that I carried out all maintenance and repair work on the boat's exterior including up the 60 and 45 metre masts.