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It was the first almost-seven-thousander I had seen in my life. Cerro Aconcagua is the highest mountain on earth outside of Asia, and I thought it kind of showed. As I approached the gigantic mountain massif, I heard from various travelers that the landscape had …
Eating at street stalls is one of my favorite activities on my world travels. Here, the food is often fresher, more authentic and tastier than in the restaurant around the corner, and you can see exactly what you’re getting beforehand. On a village street of …
While traveling through southern Peru with Remo, other travelers kept telling us about the so-called Rainbow Mountain. It is Vinicunca, a magnificent mountain striped in seven colors, which one could take a guided day tour to from Cusco. No question, after all the gushing, we …
It is sometimes good to cross a shaky bridge. First, there is the thrill and a multitude of questions that arise: So do I dare, or not? Will the cables hold me if the planks snap? What could happen if I fall off and how …
In the southernmost city of the world, wind and weather transform even the ugliest barracks into something worth admiring. When I returned to civilization with my Israeli companion, Omer, this tiny house was the first sign of human presence after four days of wandering through …
There is something magical about the twilight atmosphere in the Plaza de Armas in Cusco. This is helped by the warm yellow light given off by the plaza lamps, which reflects from the blank slabs producing long shadows from the people strolling by. This yellow …
The further north you drive up the Brazilian coast, the more uninhabited and wild it becomes. After meeting my friend Mirko from Berlin in Fortaleza, we traveled to the remote beach town of Jericoacoara, which lies in the center of an extensive dune area and …
On the Peruvian island of Taquile in the middle of beautiful Lake Titicaca, time seems to stand still. No hotels, no police, a healthy age structure and largely self-sewn clothing. The Spanish colonists however, tried hard to change the islanders’ traditional way of life, but …