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After a 24-hour journey from Kathmandu to India, I reached the city of Varanasi in the morning by night train. Still half asleep, I rode a rickshaw through town and was overwhelmed by its intensity. A large part of life takes place on the streets: …
I encounter tourist magnets with mixed feelings. On the one hand, they have not without reason become the center of attraction for people from all continents and therefore usually possess something particularly worth seeing. On the other hand, they are often surrounded by characterless areas …
Every day of my solo travels I start with a fresh cup of coffee. Whether with a book on my own terrace, surrounded by people in a café or deep in thought in front of the tent – however I arrange my ceremony, I experience …
In the harbor of the Indonesian city of Larantuka, I had found out in a funny way how I, as a European, am perceived by the locals. A little girl could no longer hold herself in laughter while she looked me in the face. It …
The further east you drift from the island of Bali, the fewer tourists you meet. On the ferry from the Island of Flores to the Island of Lembata, I seemed to be the only foreign tourist on board. Right at the beginning I was approached …
A walk through the streets of Buenos Aires can hardly be boring. The city is teeming with creative street artists from all over the world and excellent tango dancers showing off their talent for free. When I met these two artists on Calle Defensa in San Telmo, I …
After hitchhiking down 1350km along Carretera Austral through Chilean Patagonia, there was not a road from the small village of Villa o’Higgins leading further south into the country. The Campo de Hielo Sur, a huge expanse of glacial ice, made it impossible to continue by …
Those who set out for Shangri-La usually have high expectations of their destination. It is not surprising, they seek somewhere as paradisiacal as author James Hilton’s description of the fictional place in his novel Lost Horizon. When I headed for a town with the aforementioned …