India 2016 (part XXII): Kushinagar
Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh: Together with my colleague, I went from Lucknow to Gorakhpur. While our purpose was to visit the city’s university, I also had the chance to explore nearby […]
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India 2016 (part XXI): Lucknow
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh: One week after my return from Pune, I left Jaipur again to visit a colleague in Lucknow in order to discuss some projects as well as give […]
India 2016 (part XX): Pune
Pune, Maharashtra: Following my weekend trips to the nature reserves of Ranthambore and Tadoba in May, I had the chance to visit colleagues and their research institutes during June. My […]
India 2016 (part XVII): Sights of Jaipur 2
Jaipur, Rajasthan: I already did some sightseeing and birding in Jaipur, but still the Pink City had many corners for me to explore. On the first day of May, I […]
India 2016 (part XV): Sights of Jaipur 1
Jaipur, Rajasthan: One week after the festival of Gangaur, I used a lazy sunday to explore some sights of Jaipur together with a friend. First we visited Galtaji, an ancient […]
India 2016 (part XIV): Gangaur in Jaipur
Jaipur, Rajasthan: The weeks following my journey to Kolkata and the Kaziranga National Park were filled with work in Jaipur – but that did not exclude interesting new experiences! One […]
India 2016 (part VI): Kachchh 2
Kachchh, Gujarat: Following my adventurous visit to the Gir National Park and a long drive via Junagadh, I finally arrived in Bhuj, the capital of Kachchh. In the coming two […]
India 2016 (part II): Abhaneri
Abhaneri, Rajasthan: Following my arrival from Kachchh, I joined friends/colleagues on a day tour to Abhaneri, approximately 100 km east of Jaipur. This little village is famous for an enormous step […]
West Africa 2012 (part VIII): Dakar
Dakar, Senegal: The flight from Conakry to Dakar took only 1.5 hours, but brought us into a new world. All of a sudden, we were within one of Africa’s most […]
China 2015 (part IX): Yushu
Yushu, Qinghai: Since we knew that our bus from Xining would arrive in Yushu in the middle of the night, we had already booked a hotel in advance. Although information […]
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