Ich bin dann mal weg

Quilotoa Lagoon

On the morning of May 17th, I arrived in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, after a four and a half hour flight. I was picked up by Felipe, a young Colombian doctor who I have...

In Gran Chaco

After taking Christoph to the airport on April 14th, I enjoyed my last hours in Buenos Aires and had lunch in the market halls of San Telmo. In the afternoon, I picked up my...

On March 18th, I took the ferry from Buenos Aires across the Rio de la Plata to Colonia del Sacramento, the oldest city in Uruguay. Contrary to its name, the Rio de la Plata is...

The Perito Moreno Glacier

The Osorno volcano

On January 30th, I finally flew to the islands of Fiji, two days late. I had booked a resort on the southern coast of the main island, Viti Levu, for the first three nights, on...

So on 18th January, I took the ferry from Picton on the South Island to Wellington, the capital of New Zealand on the North Island. Everything went smoothly with my campervan, I...

Aotearoa! The land of the long white cloud! That's what the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, call their land. After two long flights, I arrived in Christchurch, the...

On the evening of December 11th, I arrived in Denpasar/Bali with almost two hours delay and took a taxi to Sanur, which is 15 km away. I had two weeks here until my flight to...

On December 2nd, after a long flight with a 6-hour layover in Jakarta, I arrived in Sorong. Sorong is the gateway to the Raja Ampat archipelago, which is considered one of the...

First of all: this blog will be quite short, as I only visited Thailand for a diving course. Please don't get me wrong! Thailand is a fantastic holiday destination, but I have...

On the 6th November, late in the evening, I arrived in Goa after a flight from Udaipur via Mumbai. From the airport, I took a taxi to Panjim, the capital of Goa. My start was...

On Sunday, the 23rd of October, I arrived in Delhi, unfortunately just in time for the Diwali festival, the Hindu Festival of Lights, which was supposed to reach its peak on the...

On 9.10. after a two-hour drive in a jeep, which we shared with a Dutch tourist and his guide, we reached Arughat, where we changed to a local bus that was supposed to take us...

On September 24th, I arrived in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu after a night near Bangkok Airport. My first impression of the city was somewhat mixed. My accommodation was in...

Unfortunately, AirAsia was unable to transfer my luggage from Kuching to Vientiane, the capital of Laos, via Kuala Lumpur. So I had to pick up my luggage in Kuala Lumpur around...

In Gunung Mulu National Park

After a tiring and long journey with a twelve-hour layover in Chennai, India, I arrived in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, on the evening of August 8. The first thing I...

Two Spaniards in Georgia who work in Dubai warned me: 'In Dubai, it's currently 40 degrees, which feels like 50 degrees due to the humidity!' I was surprised because I naively...

I have thought long and hard about whether or not I should even travel to Azerbaijan. A country that has been ruled so authoritarianly for decades that one must speak of a...

As mentioned in the Armenia blog, my last landlord in Gyumri helped me organize my onward journey back to Georgia. So on July 17th, I first took a shared taxi across the...

On July 9th, after a 6-hour minibus ride, I arrived in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The owner of my hostel turned out to be an American and was able to give me lots of...

On 4.7. I temporarily left Tbilisi and took a minibus east to Kakheti, the most famous wine region in Georgia. Wine production can be traced back 6000 years here, which no other...

Just a little life sign! Since July 1st I am in Georgia now. I arrived at Tbilisi Airport (or Tbilisi, as the Georgians say) at half past four in the morning and was picked up...