Powerful surfing

Here is something to start new week with little more power.
Garrett McNamara surfs the biggest wave ever (90 feet, 27.5 meters) around Nazare, Portugal.

Unfortunately you cannot use Weather Hopper to check surf conditions (yet), however you can see current weather and historical averages:

http://weatherhopper.com/l.php?d=%2FPeniche%2F6256%2F39.34%2F-9.4%2F9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlrqyHIE4wc

VW travelling

Buy a camper VW Bus, travel the world, live, cook and sleep in it. Enjoy several bonuses that comes with your new lifestyle:

- flexibility, live anywhere and anytime
- minimalism, leave stuff you don't really need behind
- low living cost, it can be cheaper than your usual monthly cost and regular tourist expenses

Besides, it's beautiful.

1000 Facebook fans reached!

Number of Weather Hopper fans just exceeded 1000! 
Thank you all for supporting us, we are aiming now to reach 10.000. 

Here's little New York footage, the city that doesn't need introduction:

http://vimeo.com/14428901

An ordinary place?

Seemingly an ordinary place...

Namaqualand, South Africa. You can use Weather Hopper to check typical weather around the area:
http://weatherhopper.com/l.php?d=%2FOkiep%2F5258%2F-29.6%2F17.87%2F8

Just Greenland

Did you ever consider visiting greenland? It could be hard, but we hava a picture for you that a few could only see in their lives.

Such ice canyons were carved by meltwater and they are deep up to 45 meters (150 feet).

Devils Tower

If you watched "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" by Steven Spielberg then you should remember this marvelous rock formation. 


Devils Tower, 1,267 feet (386 m) high , is located in Wyoming, USA. It's unusual and fantastic shape is caused by the lava that frozen inside volcano. Today there are no remains of outer volcano, only the core you see remained. 


It's located in Wyoming USA. The area is fairly close to the other US tourism and outdoor point of interests: Badlands National Park and Wind Cave National Park, Mount Rushmore, historical Deadwood town and many other places worth seeing. 


Check out typical weather for Devils Tower and see more pictures on Weather Hopper: http://www.weatherhopper.com/l.php?d=/Devils%20Tower/23023/44.58/-104.71/10

It's too beautiful to be real

Real or fake?

Update: It's real - Kawachi Fuji Gardens in Kitakyushu, Japan

Imlil, Atlas mountains

Imlil is a small Moroccan village located in Atlas mountains, 1740 meters above sea level. 

It's a base for hiking Jebel Toubkal (highest Norther African peak, 4167m) or other beautiful trails. 

Easily accesible from Marrakech could be also great travelling destination itself. 

PS. Wikipedia says that 'Seven years in Tibet' was partly filmed there.

Travelling impression

While travelling, there are THOSE days, mornings, evenings and afternoons. Full of sun, with subtle wind cooling your body. 

You can smell the grass and flowers, hear birds playing over your head. 

Perfectly black road surrounded by green and yellow trees is empty, the traffic is so little.

Only you and your backpack there, hitching a ride but it's so perfect that you wish to stay there little bit more. Just to embrace the freedom.

Venice

Little bit of inspiration for those who didn't plan to visit Venice:

http://vimeo.com/12358381

Al Jadida

Recent Weather Hopper's trip ended up in Morocco, you may expect little bit more Moroccos oriented updates soon! 


Here's simple picture showing Al Jadida medinas (old city) main street. Originally the city was founded by Portuguese, currently you can find there Spanish and Portuguese churches, mosque and synagogue.

Center of the city is reserved for beautiful water cistern, it's actually the place where Orson Welles shot some pictures for Otello.