Author Archives: Mark

Is This the New “Where The Hell is Matt”..

..is the question some people are asking today. Christoph Reharge has posted a YouTube video of his “The Longest Way” journey during which he spends a year walking across China, and grows a massive beard in the process.

You can check out Christoph’s amazing journey on his The Longest Way site, and shortly you’ll be able [...]

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20,000 Miles, 30 Countries, 11 Months – The Ultimate Charity Trip

From Buckinghamshire, England, down the East coast of Africa to Die Hel near Cape Town in South Africa. And then back again, via the far less travelled West Coast, whilst also scaling Kilimanjaro, the continent’s highest mountain. 11 months, 30 countries, 20,000 miles.
That’s the journey Carl James and Tom Picton will embark upon this September (which [...]

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The Himalaya – Featured Journey on MapVivo

Follow a stunning journey across the world’s highest mountain range with MapVivo traveler Tabatha Smith.
With breathtaking scenery and some fascinating tales of adventure this MapVivo journey is the ideal armchair adventure and well worth following:
From the trip:
Gosain Kunda was not to be the highest point of our trek – in order to start the descent [...]

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Sprechen Sie Deutsch? MapVivo now in German

MapVivo, dein online Reisetagebuch, ist jetzt verfügbar in Deutsch! Zwar gibt es zur Zeit noch nicht sehr viele deutschsprachige Reiseberichte, aber Dank deiner Hilfe werden es hoffentlich bald ganz viele sein! Wir freuen uns auf deine Reiseberichte und Kommentare in Deutsch!
Would you like to see MapVivo in your language? We’d be over the moon [...]

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Maps A-Z

We love Maps, and so we were intrigued by this project – Rhett Dashwood has spent several months building a Maps Alphabet.

Several MapVivo team members are now re-planning vacations in order to spell rude words with their subsequent travel maps…

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Video: MapVivo in Action

See MapVivo in action, live in Amsterdam.

And yes, the dork on the woman’s bike is me…

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MapVivo – The Next Step on our Journey.

This week MapVivo is designing the next evolution of our site as part of our continued goal to build an excellent resource for travelers, and a great tool for you to share your journeys.
So we would like to ask you:

What features would you like to see on MapVivo?
How can we improve what we have?
Anything else [...]

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The Independent on Sunday/ Bradt Travel-Writing Competition 2009

MapVivo users are great travel writers, and we love reading all about your journeys.
So, as a group of talented writers you might be interested to know that our friends at Bradt Travel Guides are running a great competition for travel writers offering you the chance to win a exciting holiday for two in Colombia. The [...]

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Mapness Becomes MapVivo – Newsletter and Roundup for April

If you didn’t get yours already, here is our April Newsletter – click to read all about the latest at Mapness –> MapVivo:

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New: Mapness becomes MapVivo!

We’ve got a new name, new features and a whole new look – and we are super excited!
We’d like to introduce you to the new-look Mapness: re-designed, re-named and  re-launched this week with a raft of new features to help make your journeys and travel experiences even  better.
Existing Mapness users can benefit from MapVivo’s [...]

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