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 […]
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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 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 […]
West Africa 2012 (part III): Bobo-Dioulasso
Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso: We arrived in Bobo-Dioulasso with the train from Ouagadougou. Although we heard that it might be possible to see wild elephants from the railway line, we didn’t […]
West Africa 2012 (part I): Pendjari National Park
Cotonou & Pendjari National Park, Benin: In February 2012, I flew to Cotonou, the capital of Benin, to visit my girlfriend who had spent a couple of months in the […]
China 2015 (part XVII): Beijing
Beijing: Our journey along the Tibetan border had finished at the Leshan Giant Buddha, south of Chengdu. But our stay in China continued for a few days in Beijing, where […]
China 2015 (part XVI): Leshan
Leshan, Sichuan: On our last day in Sichuan, we took the public bus from Chengdu to Leshan, 130 km towards the south (for a map click here). Visitors from all […]
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