Today I went through the narrow lanes of different quarters of the city, equipped with a little guidebook, Elise gave me as a present. It’s written by Germans who live in the city for decades and already know their way around. The book is called “Streifzüge”, it features 8 different non touristy routes and is done in a really nice …
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It’s my second time in the land of the rising sun. Now I know my way around, at least a bit, so arriving here felt familiar, especially in the nice district of Yangpu some 15 km outside the city centre, surrounded by waterways and lush green. Well it’s winter time now and lush green changed to brown and yellow since …
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After days close to rivers and tents, Kamnik was our soft entry back into city life. Small town, alpine backdrop, calm streets. It feels ordered without being boring, lively without trying too hard. A good warm-up before going bigger, we ate heartsy local meat, strolled through old town and also went for a slash in the public bath next to …
Continue ReadingLeaving Cairo felt less like a departure and more like an escape executed without drama. A short flight carried us east to Sharm el-Sheikh, where the airport was calm in a way that immediately suggested we were no longer part of the country’s nervous system. We bought a SIM card right there, without negotiation, which again felt suspicious. It worked. …
Continue ReadingEgypt was my first time in Africa, and it started in Cairo. Loud, dense, overwhelming and impossible to ignore. I reunited with Elise in the middle of this chaos, and from that moment on the city pulled us straight in. We visited the Egyptian National Museum, moving through halls filled with objects that shouldn’t still exist and yet do. Layer …
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Again we were chasing the sun so after a short visit of the Acrocorinthos a not so ancient fortress and quite big, the next stop we made in ancient Mycenae. Heinrich Schliemann discovered the remains of the old Mycenae culture here in 1886 and started the excavations. The ruins are pretty old and ruined to the ground, just the impressive …
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After 2 years I went again on a trip with my friend Eric, I met in Jordan and we already travelled Thailand and Cambodia together. So this time we decided on Greece. We met in Athens and went straight to the Acropolis, literally meaning high city, to see the ancient remains of the big temple called Parthenon and all its …
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The vast archipelago of Indonesia spreads out over an unbelievable area of almost 2 million square kilometers from Aceh province- northern Sumatra up to the Papua New Guinenan border with about 13.000 inhabited islands and a lot more uninhabited. If you plan on visiting a new island every day it would take more than 36 years to visit the entire …
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I enrolled for my open water diving course right in paradise, 4 days – 5 dives up to a depth of 18 meters with a group of 6 students and 2 instructors we first learn the theory, mostly about the equipment and lots of physics and mathematics like air expansion, pressure, air mixture plus some basic hand signs for communication …
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After a short flight and an even shorter taxi ride I finally arrived in Port Blair, the main gateway to the Andaman islands, more than a thousand kilometers off the coast from mainland India just 150 km close to Burma (Myanmar) India does it’s best to support the locals, lots of Bengalis who were relocated some decades ago to claim …
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Sunrise and sunsets are probably the best-est of times to explore Hampi. It looks like a veritable lost world and…
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