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Hippie-Trail
Takeoff
Wreaths for the traffic fatalities
Stranded
Istanbul, city of dreams
Driving in the dark night
Dust and dirt and toil
Completely screwed
Tehran monster
Pill spinners and glass bead games
Mashhad, the holy city
The city of the rascals
The magical desert
And then finally Kabul
Kabul and Chicken Street
The Buddhas of Bamiyan
The Lakes of Band-e-Amir
Buzkashi, the game for men on horses
yawning abysses
Via the Khyber Pass
Across Pakistan
Sikhs and a golden temple
Be gentle on my curves
Venice in the Himalayas
From cold to heat
The Indian Monster
Life and Death in Delhi
A dream in white marble
Erotic temples in Khajuraho
Varanasi, the holy city of the Hindus
Bodh Gaya, the Diamond Throne
The Himalayas, a dream destination
Kathmandu, the beating heart of Nepal
Kathmandu … and the Lord of the Rings
Buddha, temple, monkeys
The Saints and the Dead
Farewell Kathmandu
Pokhara calling
Delhi Déjà Vus
Northward through a troubled country
Return to the cold
A journey fraught with obstacles
Fata Morganas and wild dogs
The man with the black beard
Westward, fast, faster
Trapped in Tehran
Snow and storm and cold
Here comes the Sun
Turkish Delight
Turkish Blues
Greek wine and other delicacies
The end of the trail
India
Mumbai – Gateway to a foreign World
Goa – Summer, Sun, hot Sand
Goa - On Jason Bourne's Tracks
Goa - The last Hippies
Cape Comorin - The southernmost Point
Kollam – Strangers on a Train
Kerala Backwaters - leaving the familiar world behind
India - An alien Planet
Madurai - Temples inside the Anthill
Madurai –Reasons to keep the eyes open
Kochi - Far away from Hate and Intolerance
The Nilgiri Blue Mountain Railway
Ooty - Trekking in Tealand
Mysore - The Palace of the Maharaja
Hampi - A bygone World
Udupi - Sanctuaries and sacred cows
Between Worlds
Laos
A380 - The Colossus takes off
The Mekong - The Beast awakens
Oudomxai – Goodbye Hobbits
Muang Khoua - Bad Omen
Nam Ou River Cruise - The adventure starts
Muang Ngoi - Searching for Mr. Wong in vain
Nam Ou River Cruise - The adventure ends
Luang Prabang – The most sacred of all Cities
Luang Prabang – The Fate of the Elephants
Luang Prabang - Monks and Samaneras
Luang Prabang – The last King
In Slow Motion to Vang Vieng
Vang Vieng - Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll
Vientiane - The Capital at the Edge of the World
Bus to Savannakhet
Pakxe – Gateway to the 4000 Islands
Si Phan Don - The 4000 Islands
Dom Khon ... and a crazy Plan
The Khonepapheng Waterfall - Rolling Thunder
Wat Phou - On Foot with Bike
Bye-Bye Laos, Land of Smiles
The Miles go passing by
Bangkok - Bright Lights, big city
Farewell – Tears in Rain
Southeast Asia
Northbound to the Mekong
The Loneliness of the Night
China – The World in new Colours
Jinghong – A Dance in the Evening
Yunnan – Melancholic farewell
Luang Namptha - Jungle Trek
Luang Prabang - The old Magic
Hanoi – Good Morning Vietnam
Hanoi - Hồ Chí Minh's Mausoleum
Hanoi - Living in Chaos
Hué - The City of Emperors
Hoi An – Rain ... and a Japanese Bridge
Hoi An - Mui Ne: An unlikely Pilgrimage
Mui Ne - The majestic Aesthetics of Disappearing
Mui Ne - Lawrence of Arabia 2.0
Saigon – A very special evening
The Mekong dissolves
Cambodia - And suddenly a strange Silence ...
Kep - The Standing Buddha
Kampot - Survival in Asian Traffic
Tuol Sleng - The Face of Evil
Tonle Sap - The engine's muffled roar
Angkor Wat - The Eighth Wonder of the World
Angkor Wat - A very special Sunrise
Boiled Beetles and Spiders
The last TukTuk - Bye-bye Asia
Myanmar
Mandalay – A fading Fairy Tale
Mandalay – Mahamuna and the fat Buddha
Mandalay Hill - The World from above
Pyin U Lwin – For pale Faces and sensitive Skin
The Gokteik Bridge - Above the Abyss
Hsipaw - Mrs. Popcorn... and a Martian
Trekking in Hsipaw - Ghostriders in the Night
Aung San Suu Kyi - Myanmar's Iron Lady
Completely insane Train Ride from Mandalay to the North
Burmese Days - On George Orwell's Footsteps
On the Irrawaddy to Bhamo
Bhamo - A captive Island
From Bhamo to Mandalay – The way back
Driving to Kalaw - Traffic Rules? What for?
Kalaw - Burning hot and freezing cold
From Kalaw to Inlé Lake - Through Van Gogh's World
Trekking to the Inlé Lake - A Spiderweb Morning
Taunggyi – The Balloon Festival
Nyaungshwe - The Mona Lisa smile of the Buddha
Memories of Nazca
Mae Salong - The Descendants of the Kuomintang
Mekong - Meeting the Beast again
Mekong - Riding the wild Beast
The Hippie Trail - Memories
Thailand – Lazy Life in Rayong
Ladakh/Rajasthan
Ladakh - Flight to Leh
Leh - Out of Breath
Leh - Once upon a time there was a Royal Palace
Leh - Bob Marley on the hill
Monasteries in Ladakh - Direct Line to Heaven
Ladakh – Digital Blackout
Drive to Likir - House on the Roof
Baby Trek 1 – Dead mute World
Baby Trek 2 - River deep, Mountain high
Baby Trek 3 - Stone and Rock and Silence
Greed and fierce Men
Leh - Ultra Marathon
Khardung La Pass - Not for the faint of Heart
Nubra Valley - The Valley of Flowers
Thiksey ... and empty Stares from stony Eyes
Ladakh - Winter is coming
Leh-Manali Highway - Cautious Looks into yawning Chasms
Leh-Manali Highway - The Mountain Spirits
The Beauty of the Emptiness
Old Delhi – Beauty amidst Chaos
Jodhpur - The blue City
Bikaner - The Desert looms
Jaipur - Love and Kisses
Jaipur – The Palace of the Winds
Delhi - The ugly Face
Delhi - Another Day in Paradise
Doha - Imitation of Life
South America
Madrid – Cheap wine and drunkards
The roar of Rolls-Royce engines
Buenos Aires – La Boca and the Boca Juniors
Buenos Aires ... and the City of the Dead
Palermo - The other Face of Buenos Aires
Rio de la Plata – The sunken Battleship
Montevideo – City with rough Edges
Porto Alegre – Faces and their Stories
Porte Alegre – Walking in strange Worlds
Westward - Across a Soybean Desert
Chapeco – Nowhereland
The Iguaçu Waterfalls - Stunned Amazement
Iguaçu - The Brazilian View
Asuncion - Capital of a nearly forgotten Country
Asuncion - The Pathetic End of a Dictator
Santa Cruz - Boomtown
Bolivia – High above Cochabamba
Cochabamba - The Sky is crying
Sucre - La Ciudad Blanca
Sucre - Woman Power
Sucre - The last Tooth
Potosi - La Ciudad de los Mineros
The Plain of the thousand Lamas
The Uyuni Salt Lake - Salvador Dali's dream
From Uyuni to La Paz - Silent Trip through the Night
La Paz - Out of Breath
La Paz - Residences for the Dead
La Paz in the Rearview Mirror
From Puno to Cusco
Cusco - The City of the Incas
Cusco - An Indio Festival
From Cusco to Lima
Tumbes - Bye-bye Panamericana
Tumbes - Wet Feet in the Hotel Room
Quito - The yellow House
Ecuador - The Middle of the World
Ecuador - The Cotopaxi
Welcome to Colombia
To Cali with a borderline insane Busdriver
Cali – Crime and Salsa
From Cali to Medellin - Rain and Fog
Medellin - The Heart of Darkness
Medellin - Botero and his Nightmare Creatures
Cartagena - The most beautiful city in South America
Cartagena - Ionesco and Frieda Kahlo
Cartagena - Wistful Adios
Smog over Medellin
Final destination Bogota
Bogota - La Candelaria
Bogota - Survival
Bogota - The last Day
Nepal
Kathmandu - When Mother Earth strikes back
Kathmandu - Memories of Kali Gandaki
Swayambhunath - Temples and abandoned children
Langtang Trek Tag 1 - In the shadow of the mountains
Langtang Trek Tag 2 - Cold evil Mountain
Langtang Trek Day 3 - A Graveyard for 400 People
Langtang Trek Tag 4 - A Prayer for tired Trekkers
Langtang Trek Day 5 - Jekill and Hyde
Langtang Trek Day 6 - Memorial for the Dead
Langtang Trek Tag 7 – The ways of the Lord are mysterious
Langtang Trek Tag 8 - Like Sardines in the Can
From Kathmandu to Pokhara - The Prithvi Highway
Pokhara - Rediscovered
Pokhara Paragliding - The World in the Eye of the Eagle
Pokhara - Climate change in the Himalayas
Pokhara - A Fairy Tale of Peace
Bandipur - The accidental Tourist
Bandipur - Paradise in the Hills
Chitwan District - Scorched Meadows, violent Thunderstorms
Chitwan Nationalpark - Rhinos, Monkeys, Birds
Chitwan - Life and Death in the National Park
Kathmandu - Heaven and Earth
Kathmandu – The cursed last Day
Long-distance Hiking Trails
Alpine Panorama Trail – From East to West
The first steps
Another Switzerland
Wrong paths
Rain, nothing else.
Trials and Tribulations
Stones and snails and rain
The Black Madonna
The most beautiful day
Missing kilometers
The bluest sky
Sunday Morning coming down
A walk and a corpse
Long and hot and wonderful
Orange-yellow splendor in the evening
Trees from the Middle Ages
Cryptocurrencies and Saving the World
The path to the castle
Dark clouds
The weather god as artist
A special cemetery
The language border
Alone again
The mountains remain behind.
Lavaux as the highlight
A path for dreamers
The fragile human being
Van Gogh Country
The final steps
Trans Swiss Trail – From north to south
On the road again
Rain Songs
A paradise for horses
Energy for the future
Gloomy thoughts on a beautiful day
Back in Jinghong
The perfection of the day
Nomadic genes
The swaying trees
The beautiful blue Aare
In Gotthelf's homeland
Encounters
The sky darkens
The destructive power of water
Reading Nature
Postcard Switzerland
Strange people
Memories of the past
Light and shadow
Towards the Gotthard Pass
The devil sends his regards.
On Top of the World (almost)
Traveling on the Strada Alta
Between mountains and forests
A thousand steps
Continue straight along the Ticino river
Sweat, panting, and cursing
The longest stage
The end of the trail
La Via de la Plata – From Seville to Santiago de Compostela
Tough start
Distant Dreams
The endless kilometers
A long look into the past
The rain and the storm
And sometimes a shadow
Schrödinger's Cat
A feeling of humility
Goodbye Extremadura
Happiness is a warm gun
Salamanca
Once upon a time, Babylon and Nineveh…
And once again, Lord of the Rings
For the last time, the endless paths
Dark sky, black river
Emptiness in the mind
Done!
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Hippie-Trail
Takeoff
Wreaths for the traffic fatalities
Stranded
Istanbul, city of dreams
Driving in the dark night
Dust and dirt and toil
Completely screwed
Tehran monster
Pill spinners and glass bead games
Mashhad, the holy city
The city of the rascals
The magical desert
And then finally Kabul
Kabul and Chicken Street
The Buddhas of Bamiyan
The Lakes of Band-e-Amir
Buzkashi, the game for men on horses
yawning abysses
Via the Khyber Pass
Across Pakistan
Sikhs and a golden temple
Be gentle on my curves
Venice in the Himalayas
From cold to heat
The Indian Monster
Life and Death in Delhi
A dream in white marble
Erotic temples in Khajuraho
Varanasi, the holy city of the Hindus
Bodh Gaya, the Diamond Throne
The Himalayas, a dream destination
Kathmandu, the beating heart of Nepal
Kathmandu … and the Lord of the Rings
Buddha, temple, monkeys
The Saints and the Dead
Farewell Kathmandu
Pokhara calling
Delhi Déjà Vus
Northward through a troubled country
Return to the cold
A journey fraught with obstacles
Fata Morganas and wild dogs
The man with the black beard
Westward, fast, faster
Trapped in Tehran
Snow and storm and cold
Here comes the Sun
Turkish Delight
Turkish Blues
Greek wine and other delicacies
The end of the trail
India
Mumbai – Gateway to a foreign World
Goa – Summer, Sun, hot Sand
Goa - On Jason Bourne's Tracks
Goa - The last Hippies
Cape Comorin - The southernmost Point
Kollam – Strangers on a Train
Kerala Backwaters - leaving the familiar world behind
India - An alien Planet
Madurai - Temples inside the Anthill
Madurai –Reasons to keep the eyes open
Kochi - Far away from Hate and Intolerance
The Nilgiri Blue Mountain Railway
Ooty - Trekking in Tealand
Mysore - The Palace of the Maharaja
Hampi - A bygone World
Udupi - Sanctuaries and sacred cows
Between Worlds
Laos
A380 - The Colossus takes off
The Mekong - The Beast awakens
Oudomxai – Goodbye Hobbits
Muang Khoua - Bad Omen
Nam Ou River Cruise - The adventure starts
Muang Ngoi - Searching for Mr. Wong in vain
Nam Ou River Cruise - The adventure ends
Luang Prabang – The most sacred of all Cities
Luang Prabang – The Fate of the Elephants
Luang Prabang - Monks and Samaneras
Luang Prabang – The last King
In Slow Motion to Vang Vieng
Vang Vieng - Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll
Vientiane - The Capital at the Edge of the World
Bus to Savannakhet
Pakxe – Gateway to the 4000 Islands
Si Phan Don - The 4000 Islands
Dom Khon ... and a crazy Plan
The Khonepapheng Waterfall - Rolling Thunder
Wat Phou - On Foot with Bike
Bye-Bye Laos, Land of Smiles
The Miles go passing by
Bangkok - Bright Lights, big city
Farewell – Tears in Rain
Southeast Asia
Northbound to the Mekong
The Loneliness of the Night
China – The World in new Colours
Jinghong – A Dance in the Evening
Yunnan – Melancholic farewell
Luang Namptha - Jungle Trek
Luang Prabang - The old Magic
Hanoi – Good Morning Vietnam
Hanoi - Hồ Chí Minh's Mausoleum
Hanoi - Living in Chaos
Hué - The City of Emperors
Hoi An – Rain ... and a Japanese Bridge
Hoi An - Mui Ne: An unlikely Pilgrimage
Mui Ne - The majestic Aesthetics of Disappearing
Mui Ne - Lawrence of Arabia 2.0
Saigon – A very special evening
The Mekong dissolves
Cambodia - And suddenly a strange Silence ...
Kep - The Standing Buddha
Kampot - Survival in Asian Traffic
Tuol Sleng - The Face of Evil
Tonle Sap - The engine's muffled roar
Angkor Wat - The Eighth Wonder of the World
Angkor Wat - A very special Sunrise
Boiled Beetles and Spiders
The last TukTuk - Bye-bye Asia
Myanmar
Mandalay – A fading Fairy Tale
Mandalay – Mahamuna and the fat Buddha
Mandalay Hill - The World from above
Pyin U Lwin – For pale Faces and sensitive Skin
The Gokteik Bridge - Above the Abyss
Hsipaw - Mrs. Popcorn... and a Martian
Trekking in Hsipaw - Ghostriders in the Night
Aung San Suu Kyi - Myanmar's Iron Lady
Completely insane Train Ride from Mandalay to the North
Burmese Days - On George Orwell's Footsteps
On the Irrawaddy to Bhamo
Bhamo - A captive Island
From Bhamo to Mandalay – The way back
Driving to Kalaw - Traffic Rules? What for?
Kalaw - Burning hot and freezing cold
From Kalaw to Inlé Lake - Through Van Gogh's World
Trekking to the Inlé Lake - A Spiderweb Morning
Taunggyi – The Balloon Festival
Nyaungshwe - The Mona Lisa smile of the Buddha
Memories of Nazca
Mae Salong - The Descendants of the Kuomintang
Mekong - Meeting the Beast again
Mekong - Riding the wild Beast
The Hippie Trail - Memories
Thailand – Lazy Life in Rayong
Ladakh/Rajasthan
Ladakh - Flight to Leh
Leh - Out of Breath
Leh - Once upon a time there was a Royal Palace
Leh - Bob Marley on the hill
Monasteries in Ladakh - Direct Line to Heaven
Ladakh – Digital Blackout
Drive to Likir - House on the Roof
Baby Trek 1 – Dead mute World
Baby Trek 2 - River deep, Mountain high
Baby Trek 3 - Stone and Rock and Silence
Greed and fierce Men
Leh - Ultra Marathon
Khardung La Pass - Not for the faint of Heart
Nubra Valley - The Valley of Flowers
Thiksey ... and empty Stares from stony Eyes
Ladakh - Winter is coming
Leh-Manali Highway - Cautious Looks into yawning Chasms
Leh-Manali Highway - The Mountain Spirits
The Beauty of the Emptiness
Old Delhi – Beauty amidst Chaos
Jodhpur - The blue City
Bikaner - The Desert looms
Jaipur - Love and Kisses
Jaipur – The Palace of the Winds
Delhi - The ugly Face
Delhi - Another Day in Paradise
Doha - Imitation of Life
South America
Madrid – Cheap wine and drunkards
The roar of Rolls-Royce engines
Buenos Aires – La Boca and the Boca Juniors
Buenos Aires ... and the City of the Dead
Palermo - The other Face of Buenos Aires
Rio de la Plata – The sunken Battleship
Montevideo – City with rough Edges
Porto Alegre – Faces and their Stories
Porte Alegre – Walking in strange Worlds
Westward - Across a Soybean Desert
Chapeco – Nowhereland
The Iguaçu Waterfalls - Stunned Amazement
Iguaçu - The Brazilian View
Asuncion - Capital of a nearly forgotten Country
Asuncion - The Pathetic End of a Dictator
Santa Cruz - Boomtown
Bolivia – High above Cochabamba
Cochabamba - The Sky is crying
Sucre - La Ciudad Blanca
Sucre - Woman Power
Sucre - The last Tooth
Potosi - La Ciudad de los Mineros
The Plain of the thousand Lamas
The Uyuni Salt Lake - Salvador Dali's dream
From Uyuni to La Paz - Silent Trip through the Night
La Paz - Out of Breath
La Paz - Residences for the Dead
La Paz in the Rearview Mirror
From Puno to Cusco
Cusco - The City of the Incas
Cusco - An Indio Festival
From Cusco to Lima
Tumbes - Bye-bye Panamericana
Tumbes - Wet Feet in the Hotel Room
Quito - The yellow House
Ecuador - The Middle of the World
Ecuador - The Cotopaxi
Welcome to Colombia
To Cali with a borderline insane Busdriver
Cali – Crime and Salsa
From Cali to Medellin - Rain and Fog
Medellin - The Heart of Darkness
Medellin - Botero and his Nightmare Creatures
Cartagena - The most beautiful city in South America
Cartagena - Ionesco and Frieda Kahlo
Cartagena - Wistful Adios
Smog over Medellin
Final destination Bogota
Bogota - La Candelaria
Bogota - Survival
Bogota - The last Day
Nepal
Kathmandu - When Mother Earth strikes back
Kathmandu - Memories of Kali Gandaki
Swayambhunath - Temples and abandoned children
Langtang Trek Tag 1 - In the shadow of the mountains
Langtang Trek Tag 2 - Cold evil Mountain
Langtang Trek Day 3 - A Graveyard for 400 People
Langtang Trek Tag 4 - A Prayer for tired Trekkers
Langtang Trek Day 5 - Jekill and Hyde
Langtang Trek Day 6 - Memorial for the Dead
Langtang Trek Tag 7 – The ways of the Lord are mysterious
Langtang Trek Tag 8 - Like Sardines in the Can
From Kathmandu to Pokhara - The Prithvi Highway
Pokhara - Rediscovered
Pokhara Paragliding - The World in the Eye of the Eagle
Pokhara - Climate change in the Himalayas
Pokhara - A Fairy Tale of Peace
Bandipur - The accidental Tourist
Bandipur - Paradise in the Hills
Chitwan District - Scorched Meadows, violent Thunderstorms
Chitwan Nationalpark - Rhinos, Monkeys, Birds
Chitwan - Life and Death in the National Park
Kathmandu - Heaven and Earth
Kathmandu – The cursed last Day
Long-distance Hiking Trails
Alpine Panorama Trail – From East to West
The first steps
Another Switzerland
Wrong paths
Rain, nothing else.
Trials and Tribulations
Stones and snails and rain
The Black Madonna
The most beautiful day
Missing kilometers
The bluest sky
Sunday Morning coming down
A walk and a corpse
Long and hot and wonderful
Orange-yellow splendor in the evening
Trees from the Middle Ages
Cryptocurrencies and Saving the World
The path to the castle
Dark clouds
The weather god as artist
A special cemetery
The language border
Alone again
The mountains remain behind.
Lavaux as the highlight
A path for dreamers
The fragile human being
Van Gogh Country
The final steps
Trans Swiss Trail – From north to south
On the road again
Rain Songs
A paradise for horses
Energy for the future
Gloomy thoughts on a beautiful day
Back in Jinghong
The perfection of the day
Nomadic genes
The swaying trees
The beautiful blue Aare
In Gotthelf's homeland
Encounters
The sky darkens
The destructive power of water
Reading Nature
Postcard Switzerland
Strange people
Memories of the past
Light and shadow
Towards the Gotthard Pass
The devil sends his regards.
On Top of the World (almost)
Traveling on the Strada Alta
Between mountains and forests
A thousand steps
Continue straight along the Ticino river
Sweat, panting, and cursing
The longest stage
The end of the trail
La Via de la Plata – From Seville to Santiago de Compostela
Tough start
Distant Dreams
The endless kilometers
A long look into the past
The rain and the storm
And sometimes a shadow
Schrödinger's Cat
A feeling of humility
Goodbye Extremadura
Happiness is a warm gun
Salamanca
Once upon a time, Babylon and Nineveh…
And once again, Lord of the Rings
For the last time, the endless paths
Dark sky, black river
Emptiness in the mind
Done!
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