hin-und-weg

Sorry. It got long, but how can you summarize six months even shorter? In order to really travel the world, we have of course seen too little of it, but the long journey through...

My dear ones, I am sitting in our last hotel in Oaxaca. The suitcases are packed for the return flight. And this is the second-to-last blog post. In Vienna, I will write a...

The wonderful Toltec Warriors of Tula

Here I am again. Several days without internet at the accommodation led to a longer blog break. In the meantime, we completed our entire Maya program. A total of 24 ruin cities...

I remember, and that's amazing enough, because the mysterious man with the cloth over his face, who became famous as the spokesperson for the indigenous uprising in the Mexican...

They were the major competitors in the world of the Mayans: Tikal and Calakmul. The two city-states gathered as many allies as possible from the 5th to the 9th century and...

I have known Mexico well since my childhood. There, you will find a bright blue sky with a huge golden sun that sings. And moreover, the people have incredibly good mood, like...

Machismo, yes, it exists in Belize too. The further north you go, the more Spanish is spoken. Mexico is close, and with that, the nice, relaxed Caribbean feeling disappears more...

The houses are colorful, made of wood, not perfectly arranged, but the gardens have a green, well-maintained lawn like in England. The people are never in a hurry, very happy,...

To be honest, Guatemala didn't make us happy. We were both really looking forward to Tikal - and then somehow there was no good mood there. Everything felt strange and...

Honduras is, as one reads, the second most dangerous country behind El Salvador, San Pedro Sula the most dangerous city in the world - measured in murders per year. But in...

Guatemala is not really a place for European scaredy-cats like us. At the airport in the capital, checked luggage is regularly cut open and looted from the conveyor belt. On the...

With Colombia, the last leg of our journey has begun, which we will spend in Latin America - a stage that I have been looking forward to on the one hand, because I have always...

Actually, we skipped all the really wild destinations. After all, we are older people and newcomers to traveling in exotic countries. Specifically: we wanted to skip all the...

Colombia was nominated on our journey: in my initial research, the country was considered insanely dangerous due to the activities of guerrilla groups, especially the powerful...

Now we have finally found our island paradise. Rapa Nui more than made up for the disappointment in Seychelles: The small island with its 5,000 inhabitants is perfect for us....

What stands out first when returning to "civilization" with subway, tap water, croissants, and restaurants with creative cuisine after weeks (for a very short time)? The people...

Just a short time after crossing the border between Thailand and Cambodia (actually on foot), I felt a certain level of confusion on the journey in the shared taxi to Siem Reap,...

I will subjectively present my report about our many days in Angkor - hopefully in high spirits (thanks to wine and whiskey, with which we were unexpectedly fed during the...

We stay in Siem Reap for 13 days, which astonishes all of our conversation partners, whether they are locals or other tourists. The conversations go something like this: 'Why...

We are terribly stressed. After a long and exhausting day full of new impressions, we can just swim a little in the homestay pool, shower, eat - and then fall asleep exhausted....

We slowly approach what we assume will be the (artistic) highlight of our stay in Southeast Asia: the temples around Angkor in Cambodia, built by the Khmer from the 9th to the...

We are traveling in Thailand from north to south, visiting some of the places that were once the royal capitals. The Thai royal dynasties had a certain weakness for finding a...

Kids, kids, I haven't ridden bikes as much in the past 30 years as I have in the last few weeks. First in the Seychelles, then in Bagan in Myanmar, and here in Thailand too. Now...

Why one should travel to Thailand and what one should see there was incomprehensible to our dear friend (and tax advisor) Toni, when I listed him the destinations of our trip -...

Come and see! This is a wild recommendation from us. Here (even more extreme than in India) we have chosen a very unusual approach to traveling and have not visited everything...

It took us eight days to complete our temple and pagoda program in Bagan. So, we had the ninth day as a bonus day. We used it to explore the structures that we liked the most,...

Sometimes things don't go as planned. And so the blog becomes more personal than I could have imagined beforehand. Just now my mother was buried in Vienna. I am here in Myanmar,...

We will stay in Bagan for a whole nine days, we explain to the taxi driver who takes us to the hotel after our arrival, and we receive incredulous amazement. A reaction that...

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