DAY 10 (12.09.19): Journey to Son Köl Sleeping in a yurt might sound romantic, but the reality was far from it. After a restless night, I managed to catch an extra hour of sleep in the morning. When ...
For PART 1 Kumis is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare’s milk. This drink remains important to the peoples of the Central Asian steppes. DAY 6 (08.9.2019): Journey to Jyrgalan The alarm ...
INTRO These pictures and stories are five years old, and I still can’t believe I never got around to writing about this incredible experience. Kyrgyzstan is a country that few people know ...
DAY 4 (19.04.23) The day kicked off under a cloudy sky. Things quickly went south when the previous night’s salad decided to stage a revolt, leaving me desperately seeking a restroom. To add insult to ...
Prologue If someone had told me a few years ago that a solo trip could end up causing me trauma, I would never have believed them. Blame it on the bad weather, on the lack of human encounters, or on ...
Well let’s cut to the chase right from the start. Christoph joined me for the second half of my trip to Morocco. I didn’t want to make such a big thing out of it and I didn’t bring it up with most ...
Before the pandemic hit I had a flight booked for Marrakech. I remember going for it mostly because it didn’t cost that much. 2020 was a wild year and we all learned that we couldn’t really rely on ...
20/10/2019, Berlin LES JONQUILLES: “It was a hot Sunday in October, the park was full, the children were playing and the Jonquilles were blooming. Like flowers, we revealed ourselves under Andrea’s ...
Busuanga Island, 13/03/2018 There are few times in my life where I couldn’t hide the excitement for what I saw right out of the window on a flight. The first was while flying to the Bahamas, where ...
11-12/03/2018 Bohol Island On the first grey-skied day since we landed in the Philippines, me and Isa left Alona Beach on board of a tricycle to get to Tagbilaran, Bohol’s main hub, determined to ...
07-08-09/03/2018 CEBU ISLAND Polished skyscrapers by the beach, broad boulevards with wax palms, traffic jams, hot weather and feel good music playing at every corner… If it hadn’t been for the ...
November 2017, Chittorgarh + Pushkar (India) Fighting against the everlasting food coma that had possessed our bodies since the previous night, me and Isa dragged our backpacks out of our ...
30/11/2017, Udaipur (India) “What about spending the night in a wonderful place?” “Oh well, Raam, I bet wonderful and cheap don’t always go hand in hand” “NO, NO, NO. This is place is wonderful AND ...
28-29/11/2017, Jodhpur + Ranakpur (India) A mighty fort that towers over a stretch of Brahmin blue rooftops, hundreds little mountains of multihued spices, a tangle maze of uphill and downhill narrow ...
27-28/11/2017, Jaisalmer (India) That early afternoon me and Isa said goodbye to Anna Kaba and Tobi, our travel companions, and took a flight to Jaisalmer, the golden city of Rajasthan. One week had ...