Walk of Causes – Episode 13

The morning sun in the Lebanese mountains

Now that we’ve been on the road for quite a while, Matias’ body is finally about to give in. We expected more problems actually, as none of us have ever walked across a country before, nor exorcized. But the pain seemed to have been accumulating, and now it reached a point where we were forced [...]

S.N.O.W. (Super Norwegians & Oriental Winters)

The ski slopes in the Lebanese mountains

Now that it’s winter and super cold, we get reminded of the land where we learned to walk: The Kingdom of Norway. Even though we live far away from this frosty empire, we can always go the the Lebanese mountains when we feel homesick. Although it’s been fifteen years since the last time we had [...]

CAIRO + 25 JANUARY + 2011 = REVOLUTION

People of the revolution

Here are some pictures from when we revolutionized Egypt last year. It was totally awesome, except from all the killing, and that it’s still not quite over yet. Now, there are so many revolutions happening all over the place that we lost track!

Walk of Causes – Episode 12

A traditional Druze wedding that we gatecrashed

For all the orphans. It was nice being able to wake up in a proper bed for a change, and we felt that the brothers and the sisters had taken good care of us. In this episode of Walk of Causes we enter the majestic Chouf region of the Lebanese mountains. This is the land [...]

Walk of Causes – Episode 11

A new unfinished house next to some old unfinished houses

For the rights of domestic workers Our struggle to find a safe place to spend the night continues as we cannot sleet at the monastery where we asked for shelter. With no tent, and nothing to protect our camera equipment from rain with, our search continues. But we were lucky and met Mr Charbel that [...]

2FAMOUS AGAINST INTERNET CENSORSHIP – ACT NOW

censored

Usually, when we hear the word “censorship” we think of China. Words like “communism”, “fascism” and “dictatorship” come to our minds. It also reminds us of some of our most favorite literature, such as “1984″, “Fahrenheit 451″ and “A Brave New World”. That’s what we’ve been told to think: Since we live in a democracy, [...]

Walk of Causes – Episode 10

A monastery in the Lebanese mountains

For all the homeless people. As we’ve spent some time walking in this country by now, we realized a sport that seems to be pretty popular throughout the whole country. We never learned the official name for it, but it’s remarkable similar to one of the most famous winter activities in Norway: sledging. So, we’ve [...]

Walk of Causes – Episode 9

Trees & Jorgen

As we’ve walked out of our financial problems, and Jørgen’s feet started to feel better, we met a man that told us what Lebanon used to be like during the war. We also met a woman that explained the concept of “cocktail villages”. Lebanon is one of the countries in the Middle East that has [...]

ROADKILLS – THE VIDEO

roadkill

As the roadkill pictures from our walk across lebanon turned into such a huge success, we decided to make the video version too! Be careful and drive safely – there are people and animals sharing that road with you.

ROADKILLZ

Road kills of Lebanon - Walk of Causes

Not everybody made it across Lebanon…

Walk of Causes – Episode 8

A green eyed kid we met

Against Poverty Now that we’ve been on the road for quite some time, Jørgen is starting to feel it in his body. His $10 shoes seems to hold, but his feet are falling appart from the inside! And as each step is reminding him of this pain, we run out of money, which is problem [...]

Walk of Causes – Episode 7

A little house that we came across

Against Discrimination – For Human Rights Watch One of the problmes we faced in the beginning was the language barrier. We don’t speak Arabic, and Norwegian seems to be fairly useless, unless you are in Norway, of course. But now that we’ve been on the road for some time, we’ve started to master the art [...]