[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Rio de Janeiro. Arrival. I just had the worst flight of my life. An attack at Copacabana. And walked alone through the most dangerous favelas of Rio. The first few hours of an upcoming trip around the world could have been my last. I hadn't really arrived yet in Brazil. Because I left my heart [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Actually, my booking schedule indicated to return back to Punta Arenas after our penguin excursion at Bahía inútil by tourist van and ferry. On the next day I would have taken a bus from Punta Arenas to Argentina. Because anyway I had in mind of heading down to the “end of the world” in the [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]3 days on a cargo ship. That's how long it took me to get from Tahiti to Fakarava. I also brought some medicine for my friend Hugo and his broken leg when I arrived. And that's when I got to know his neighbor: Mana. He happened to be the captain at Fakarava's diving school [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="How crazy ideas arise ..." font_container="tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23000000" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]Shanghai changed many things for me. Not only that I studied at Fudan University. At the end of this time I tried to travel alone for the first time of my life. Because I didn't receive permission for entering Tibet, I headed south to Nepal. My skepticism [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Never again I wanted to put my life at risk like in 2011 at the foot of Mt. Everest at an altitude of over 4,000m. One voice inside of myself accepted that altitude limit back then. But the other voice was still convinced that other factors were as well responsible for my crisis at [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]For a few days now I've been alone in a beach villa on the Moorea Atoll, from where in fact I was able to spend afternoons in my garden on white sandy beach watching seven-meter-tall humpback whale calves jumping out of the sea at a distance of just 200 meters. Because it was actually [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Once in my lifetime looking at the highest point of Mother Earth: Mt. Everest. Not necessarily climb it. But see and feel it. This was my wish. And I had been well prepared for this. I studied everything about acute mountain sickness (AMS) and its symptoms. Never ever I wanted to be one of [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Castle Rock. After a calm dive in Seraya Bazaar, we received the briefing for Castle Rock in the morning. This marine mountain with several pinnacles is situated at a depth of about 25 meters in the waters between the islands of Toko Toko and Gili Lawa Laut. The castle summit is about five meters [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The reason why I was illegally in Oman started with the flight from Nairobi to Dubai. When I got a Business Class upgrade from Emirates Airlines. What a pity! There was plenty of champagne on board. You are forced to order a few glasses. When I arrived in an awesome mood in Dubai, my passport [...]
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The city of Iquitos can only be reached by plane or by ship on the Amazon River. In the middle of the biggest rainforest of the world we take the only one road from Iquitos to Nauta village: the crossing point of the two main sources of the Amazon River. There we got on [...]
