India 2016 (part V): Junagadh
Junagadh, Gujarat: On the long way from the Gir National Park to Bhuj in Kachchh, my driver and me had a short stop in Junagadh. Junagadh boasts a number of […]
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India 2016 (part IV): Gir National Park
Gir National Park, Gujarat: On the 10th of February, I took the overnight train from Jaipur to Rajkot in Gujarat. A car and driver were arranged to pick me up […]
India 2016 (part III): Pushkar 1
Pushkar, Rajasthan: Following the outing to the step well of Abhaneri, another day trip brought me to Pushkar, 145 km southwest of Jaipur. Pushkar is a small town surrounding a […]
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 […]
India 2016 (part I): Kachchh 1
Kachchh, Gujarat: In January 2016, I once again flew to Kachchh in the westernmost corner of Gujarat, India. I had come here almost yearly for research since my first visit in 2008/09, but […]
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 […]
West Africa 2012 (part VII): Iles de Los
Conakry & Iles de Los, Guinea: After our days hiking through the hills of the Fouta Djalon, we took the bus to Conakry, the capital of Guinea. Our original plan was […]
West Africa 2012 (part VI): Fouta Djalon
Fouta Djalon, Guinea: From Faranah near the Haut Niger National Park, we took the shared taxi towards Dalaba in the Fouta Djalon (for a map click here). Generally, the major […]
West Africa 2012 (part V): Haut Niger National Park
Faranah & Haut Niger National Park, Guinea: The journey from Bamako in Mali to Kankan in northern Guinea was already an adventure in itself (for a map of the entire […]
West Africa 2012 (part IV): Bamako
Bamako, Mali: When I planned our trip through West Africa during the summer of 2011, I was eager to visit the mysterious Timbuktu in northern Mali. However, at the end […]
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