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Dark Tourism & Toilets

At the end of the previous Blog post about the Ukraine war and how it has affected dark tourism (DT) I promised that I would find a less depressing topic for the next, this Blog post. And so I decided to revive the tradition of the themed post and picked the theme of DT & Toilets. That will have its lighter, even amusing aspects, though of course it’s still about dark tourism, and so must have its serious sides too. I’ll save the funnier ones for the end part of this post – so keep reading to the end!

Where to begin? Where can dark tourism and toilets overlap? Well, one thing you may

Dark Tourism & Lakes

As announced in the previous post and the latest newsletter, today I bring you the other one of the joint winners of our latest theme poll, after DT & spheres. So, now to lakes.
This is Lovatnet in Norway. It looks just very scenic and serene, but this lake has been deadly, twice, in the 20th century, namely when huge rockfalls/landslides from the steep slopes of Mt Ramnefjell crashed into the water, creating massive tsunamis that washed away entire villages on the lake’s shores