Sailing on an ancient junk boat in Vietnam, riding a rickshaw in Japan or seeing the pyramids on camels – there are thousands of odd and intriguing forms of transportation around the world. Here are some of the strangest: 1. Bamboo Train, Cambodia Between Battambang… Read the rest

Yeah, you may be able to hit the slopes with Google Street View, but you better do it quick because the Street View camera man seems to be under attack by these Norwegians in scuba gear. Click here to see the actual image via Google.… Read the rest

Splashing around in water is fun. And no matter where you are on this grand planet of ours the rule is the same: if there is enough water people will find a way to have fun in it. In his fly-fishing masterpiece The River Why, Oregon author David… Read the rest

Comic genius Mitch Hedberg used to say, “An elevator can never break; it can only become stairs.”  Unfortunately Mitch died in 2005. But unlike escalators and drug-addled comics, a well-crafted set of stairs can survive for centuries. Through all the differences in culture and… Read the rest

If you haven’t seen Snakes on a Plane, the 2006 thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson, you are at least aware that it exists. But what you probably don’t think about as you walk past it in the movie aisle and make your dammed snarky comments, is that… Read the rest

Scandinavian electronica? Unless you’re a committed music aficionado, you probably didn’t even know that such a thing existed. But any artist that’s represented by the label Astralwerks, who has big names like Air, Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers, deserves some respect, and Röyskopp has earned their spot on… Read the rest

Nordic Skating (or tour skating), called “lÃ¥ngfärdsskridsko” Swedish, is a popular Nordic sport that does not enjoy a lot of popularity in North America. But it looks like fun. When most North Americans think of skating across ice we visualize what we know: hockey game thuggery, or… Read the rest

Sick of Norwegians walking around acting like their poo smells like roses? Well it does. And if that’s not bad enough, it’s also going to power their city buses. Norway’s plan to be carbon neutral by 2050 can’t always be described as green. Sometimes it a seems… Read the rest

It’s the second week of Wend’s Alternative Transportation Month and today’s photo comes to us from Haley McNabb who is currently living in Hamar, on the east coast of Norway. In Norwegian this sled is called a spark, and with two blades — similar to ice… Read the rest

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo. It’s more fun wingsuit action. I am a little concerned about these skis they’re kicking off though; does someone have to backtrack all over the mountain to find them once they’ve fallen to the ground?… Read the rest

Remember lemmings? The rodents that gather to heave themselves (to almost certain doom) off cliffs? It’s a popular myth that these creatures take the leap as part of some strange, Jonestown-esque mass suicide ritual. But in truth, lemmings, which travel in packs, only jump at times… Read the rest

Thanks to Julian Borger at guardian.co.uk for bringing us news about the Congo Basin Forest Fund, which launched today. The fund, which is the largest ever set to combat deforestation, was implemented by Britain and Norway to help fight deforestation in the… Read the rest