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French Polynesia has burned itself into my soul. It has become a state that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. I have learned how life can and should be lived. I am...

Why spend one to two full days traveling across the globe to dive, when the Red Sea is just six nonstop flight hours away? Because Fakarava has everything an experienced diver's...

There sat five Norwegians and one Swede on a raft. It had consequences for a child from Southern Schleswig. In 1947, it took Thor Heyerdahl and five friends 101 days to sail their...

Can you declension adventure? The journey to French Polynesia is one of the most exotic experiences I've ever had. One of the reasons: I have crossed the date line. A dream of...

Has it really only been a week? It feels like a lot longer since my Fiji Airways flight landed its fuselage and human cargo on the tarmac in Nadi, Fiji's international airport, in...

Singapore is located 1 degree north of the Equator. Ergo tropical climate. This means that the 6.1 million inhabitants are crammed together in a veritable urban jungle only 1.25...

The best street food can be found in Singapore. Period. It's cheap. It's good. It's safe (the country has strict food hygiene laws). I particularly enjoy the so-called hawker...

272 steps in the colors of the rainbow. There is only one way: up! The Batu Caves, located 13 km north of Kuala Lumpur's city center, are popular with both Hindus and tourists. It...

On Monday morning I landed in Malaysia's de facto capital, Kuala Lumpur, an unusually pleasant hour-and-five-minute flight north of Singapore. Quickly and efficiently I acquired...

Who can sleep in Singapore? Beaten down, jetlagged, overtired, and perhaps just older with age, my wake-up brain played Tom Kristensen's poem about 20s Berlin on repeat the first...