The Adventure Unfolds
From the series: Stories from India
From March 2nd until March 5th
Welcome to New Delhi! Yesterday I was still trying to shut down myself. Why? Because I knew it would be my last day in Switzerland for a while. …
Off into the green!
Hiking in the Philippines? A sea and beach paradise with 7100 islands? How does that work? Well, there are mountains too. …
Carved in Stone
From the Series: Stories from India
from March 30th to April 2nd
Why do I want to go to Aurangabad, I wonder? Maybe it is because of the caves of Ajanta that you can visit from there. …
15 millions
I am really tired. Is it because somewhere early in the morning or in the middle of the night – anyway – some sucker, or a suckress, knocked on a room door for minutes. Or hammered arround on the floor. …
Two four five
It is quite early when I wake up on the morning of May 24th. Wednesday morning at 05:30am. Today I would spend the majority of the day on a bus. After a short breakfast, the driver Don Don, who had already taken me to the rice terraces of Batad, takes me to the village center. …
Rice and people
In so many countries in Southeast Asia, the bus is the number one means of transport. They are the ones connecting cities and villages. …
Second chance for Singapore
I am standing in front of the Indian Airlines boarding counter at the airport in Chennai and wait. It has just been announced by loudspeakers that the boarding has been moved from gate C to gate A. The Indians and I had to yield Gate C to the Russians …