After four days of saying goodbye to friends and family and then friends again, I'm sitting on the plane bound for adventure with a chaos of emotions in my head. Fortunately, the two hours of sleep dampens all feelings :D

Even if you think you're prepared after four years of planning, new idiotic questions and concerns still come to mind: "Normally people walk on their right side of the street and others walk past them on their left and there are significantly more right-handed people than Left-handed. To reduce the risk of my cell phone being stolen, I should carry it in my right trouser pocket. But doesn't India have left-hand traffic? Wait, in India there is just chaotic traffic and I don't have my valuables in my trouser pockets anyway. Should Do I prefer to wear my bum bag on the right side or...?" Things like that and even more so ⊙⁠﹏⁠⊙

The biggest help in keeping my emotions in check were and are my family and friends, who accompanied me through all the planning (sometimes involuntarily). Many thanks to my brothers, my mother and father, to my cousin Lena, to my best friends Malte and Eva and Lara and all the other great people!

When I sit here on the plane and look at Syria's Nefud Desert 10km below me, fears and concerns disappear and the desire for adventure flares up in me. With the little green 6.5kg tank on my back, which I named "Cassiopeia", my first stop is waiting for me: Anuradhapura - Sri Lanka

So fahren Kuwaitis, ohne Sinn und Verstand.

Im Camping Shop, gearbeitet wird von 19:00 Uhr bis 6:00 Uhr!

Im Öl-Museum, eines der größten Holograme!

Sea City, jedes Haus hat hier Zugang zum Wasser nur ist unter der Woche keiner da!

Everything was brought in and whatever was missing was brought by the boy.

Tea making with a plastic bottle, it works!

During the day, it is also too hot!

It is good to live here, tax-free and a monthly government support for every Kuwaiti. No one works here anymore, except for the expatriate workers.

The city has 2.5 million inhabitants, but no sewage system yet!

In general, the flights were great - good food, comfortable seats, first plane with TV and super modern!

But starting from Kuwait, the "weird" feeling started - actually I was the only European woman flying towards New Delhi 😅 95% of the passengers were men - and they stare at you!! My tactic: Just ignore them and pretend that you don't notice it!🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Going to the toilets on the plane - totally uncomfortable, since the entire rows are filled with mainly men, as mentioned before. Everyone is looking 🤷🏼‍♀️ of course 😂