Off to Northern Thailand. You have to go there if you want to see the "real" Thailand. What a nonsense. Always go somewhere, constant planning, permanent thinking. The cities of Chiang Mai, Pai and Mae Hong Son have been hubs of mass tourism in Thailand since many years. Beautiful places indeed. But if you want [...]
1 million. 1.5 million? Nobody knows exactly how many people densely live in Africa's second largest slum. One reason is because the socio-economic structure in the slums is beyond our imagination. Just as much it is beyond isolated counting methods that we are used to in Western societies. It’s called Kibera for a good reason. [...]
Weekend off. Richie, Adnan, Daniel and I want to go to the Waitakere Mountains in front of the Tasman Sea. The idea actually came from Tom, our host. A german physics engineer who has fulfilled his lifelong dream with a beach villa in Bucklands Beach (Auckland). He has been hiking on the Karamatura Track several [...]
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 behind [...]
