Travel Special: Asia Upclose

Silk Roads to Shanghai – Full Documentary from Sand2Snow Adventures on Vimeo.

Be just like the Irish Adventures David Burns and Maghnus Collins. Spend 11 months on an expedition of Istanbul to Kathmandu all on a bike. Then run 1000km’s in 26 days across the Tibetan Plateau before you get your money’s worth with a kayak excursion down the third longest river all the way to Shanghai. All this and more in the documentary above from Sand2Snow Adventures.

The ‘Rocket Wars’ of Vrontados, Greece

Via The Laughing Squid:

ROCKET WARS from Variable on Vimeo.

“In the small village of Vrontados on the Greek island of Chios, there is unrest. For over a century, parishioners of two Greek Orthodox churches have engaged in a battle on Holy Saturday, firing more than 100,000 homemade rockets at each other’s churches once the sun goes down.”