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Jul 21, 2019
Jul 14, 2019CHAPTER 16 – YANAR DAG, AZERBAIJAN
Jun 20, 2019CHAPTER 15 – BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
Feb 19, 2017Kawah Ijen – the infernal beauty
Jan 20, 2020The true face of Iran
Sep 1, 2019CHAPTER 21 – YAZD, IRAN
Aug 25, 2019CHAPTER 21 – KASHAN, IRAN
Aug 18, 2019CHAPTER 20 – SNOWBOARDING IN IRAN
Apr 9, 2017Legends of Nikko
Jun 1, 2019CHAPTER 14 – THE SILK ROAD, KAZAKHSTAN part II
May 15, 2019CHAPTER 13 – THE SILK ROAD, KAZAKHSTAN part I
Feb 2, 2019Chapter 11 – Almaty, Kazakhstan
Jan 11, 2019Chapter 10 – Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
Apr 30, 2019CHAPTER 12 – BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN
Nov 1, 2018The two faces of Issyk-Kul
Dec 26, 2018Chapter 9 – Ulgii, Mongolia
Nov 30, 2018Chapter 8 – Khovd, Mongolia
Nov 28, 2018Between the Worlds
Nov 25, 2018Chapter 7 – Bayankhongor, Mongolia
Sep 29, 2019Guardian angels with Kalashnikov
Oct 25, 2018The Spirit of Buryatia
Sep 16, 2018The Two Temples of Posolskoye
Aug 21, 2018Chapter 4 – Buryatia, Russia
Aug 6, 2018Chapter 3 – Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Mar 29, 2018Thaipusam – the way of finding bliss
Apr 27, 2017The oldest barbershop in Singapore
Mar 12, 2017Thaipusam – when body becomes a sacrifice
Feb 7, 2017The Lion Dance – dancing into the Lunar New Year
Dec 28, 2017Buddhism at the hanging rock
May 7, 2017Fish Market in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Jan 30, 2018Tidal Waves
Oct 30, 2017Damnoen Saduak – Thai market that rocks
Sep 11, 2017Maeklong – Thai market for adrenaline rush seekers
Mar 5, 2017Foodie guide to Vietnam
Dec 1, 2016Ho Chi Minh’s vibrant streets
About
Hi there!
We travel around the world, in an old ambulance
The route – from Poland to Alaska, long way round.
The plan – 4 years, 5 continents, 56 countries and 150 000km.
The vehicle – former ambulance converted into a cosy house on wheels.
Aleksandra
A journalist by education, a traveller by passion. To combine both, she gave up work in a Singaporean corporation and exchanged her comfortable life in the Lion City for a shaky home in the campervan, driving to the edges of the world. In her writing, she uses vivid imagery to tell stories of inspiring people, places and events.
Andrzej
A filmmaker and photographer. Founder of AWsome Media – a video production company. He moved from a cosy office in Singapore to a dusty camper’s cab. He seeks unusual stories of human lives around the world. Only a few things on this planet would stop him from getting that perfect shot.
Our story
Interview with Kasia and Łukasz from the Youtube channel Podróżovanie
With English subtitles!
Around the World in the Ambulance
We decided to turn our lives upside down and head out on a journey around the world. From Poland to Alaska, long way round. We will drive through 5 continents, almost 60 countries and over 150,000 km – a four-year expedition. Our vehicle is a campervan – a little house on wheels converted from a thirteen-year-old ambulance.
Our aim is not only to drive through the world. It is to experience it and to absorb the reality of each country.
We will thoroughly document the entire journey and present it to our audience in an unforgettable way. We stopped blogging and started writing articles, reportages and shoot documentaries.
We will interact with people and learn their fascinating everyday life. We will work as volunteers where help is needed the most. We will go to numerous countries to break or confirm their stereotypes. We will see landscapes we have never dreamt of and the ones we could only imagine. We will reach the farthest outskirts and remote byways – the peripheries of the world.
We are here now – our live location
Click below to see more details: “Around the World in the Ambulance”
Peripheries
Peripheries – the outer limits of an area; outskirts, verges, borderlines.
The online travel magazine “Peripheries” is a platform for articles, reportages and documentary films from the farthest corners of the world. The magazine not only introduces unusual places to the public but also shows the unusual side of these seemingly well-known. It shows extraordinary people who inspire and surprise; the culture of countries through the prism of their traditions, customs and even cuisine.
“Peripheries” is the eyes and the ears of our audience at the edges of the world.
We explain chilling religious practices where believers pierce their bodies with sharp spikes. We show what motivations drive them and what they achieve in return.
Thaipusam – the way of finding bliss
We talk with a Buddhist monk about the philosophy of life that brings peace to us and to the world.
Buddhism at the hanging rock
In the temples of the world, we join traditional ceremonies and rituals.
The Shwedagon Pagoda – magnificent witness of the Buddhist novitiation
We follow the footsteps of precursors who have discovered and showed paths to present generations.
Karung Guni – Singapore’s recycling pioneers
From above the plates of local food, we look at people who, apart from the spices, pour into them their heart and family traditions.
Tiong Bahru – a culinary heritage of Singapore
All of this to show you the farthest corners of the globe, their practices, customs and traditions.
Interviews
Interview with Magda from the Youtube channel Turkish Coffee
With English subtitles!
Freelance work – Articles
Convoy – Military Escort through Pakistani Balochistan
Takhi – The Last Truly Wild Horses
20+ articles from Aleksandra under this link. Check it out!
Pakistan – In the Shadow of the Killer Mountain
Iran – City of Angels
Kazachstan – Echoes of the Silk Route
Japan’s many faces
India escaping patterns
Myanmar through our eyes
10+ articles from Aleksandra under this link. Check it out!
Freelance work – Videos
Truly – I’m 21 – But I Age Seven Times Faster | BORN DIFFERENT
Jalopnik – The Beautiful Hand Painted Trucks of Pakistan
Great Big Story – The Mysterious Origins of Maiden’s Castle
Our travel guide
If you prefer however a guide in a traditional format we also have something for you. In 2015 the publishing agency Pascal invited us to create the Malaysia and Singapore guide, in their popular guidebooks collection. We are proud to say that we wrote Singapore, Johor Bahru, Ipoh, Cameron Highlands, Penang and Malacca chapters.
You can buy our guidebook here.
Any thoughts? Drop us a line at info@peryferie.com
On the web or the paper, come with us for an adventure!
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Trzydniowa Japonia w pigułce rozniosła nam głowy. Kilka lat później przeprowadziliśmy się do niej na sześć miesięcy. Kraj przez pół roku konsekwentnie i nieodwracalnie przepalał nam styki. Dlatego nie zdziwiliśmy się wcale, kiedy kilka lat później w Wołgogradzie po meczu Polska-Japonia kibice naszych rywali zabrali się za porządkowanie stadionowych trybun. Co kiedyś mogłoby wywołać uśmiech politowania i wymowny gest posuwisto-zwrotny palcem wskazującym w stronę czoła, dziś było tak oczywiste, że aż trzeba się było dołączyć. Wcale nas nie zdziwiło, że przed stadionem rzesze japońskich fanów gratulowało Polakom tak żarliwie, jakbyśmy wcale nie grali o pietruszkę. Przy tym wszyscy byli tak urzekająco szczęśliwi naszym… hmm… szczęściem, jakby sami właśnie wygrali puchar. Wymianom szalików, koszulek nie było końca. Andrzej wrócił chyba z trzema. W tym jedną vintage z rozgrywek w latach dziewięćdziesiątych ubiegłego wieku. Co prawda juniorska, ale przynajmniej na jedno z nas pasuje.
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Three-day Japan, in a nutshell, blew our minds. A few years later, we moved in there for six months. The country has been consistently and irreversibly frying our brains for half a year. That's why we weren't at all surprised when, a few years later, in Volgograd, after the Poland-Japan match, our rivals' fans started cleaning up the stadium stands. What once might have caused a smile of pity and a back-and-forth gesture with the index finger towards the forehead was now so obvious that we had to join in. We were not at all surprised that in front of the stadium, crowds of Japanese fans congratulated the Poles as passionately as if we were not playing for honour at all. And everyone was so charmingly happy with our… hmm… victory as if they had just won the cup themselves. There was no end to the exchange of scarves and T-shirts. Andrzej came back with at least three, including one vintage from the 1990s. It's a junior size, but it fits at least one of us.](https://www.peryferie.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)