India 2016 (part XL): Manali
Manali, Himachal Pradesh: After the epic road trip from Kaza on the previous day, we explored Manali before finally leaving the Himalayas and returning to the hot plains of northern […]
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India 2016 (part XXXVIII): Spiti Valley
Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh: After four long days of driving, we finally reached Kaza, the main town within the Spiti Valley and our base for the following days. While Kaza […]
India 2016 (part XXXVII): Tabo-Kaza
Tabo-Kaza, Himachal Pradesh: Compared to our thrilling drive to Tabo (~3300 m) on the previous day, the journey to Kaza (~3600 m) was much more relaxed. Before breakfast, we went […]
India 2016 (part XXXII): Rajaji
Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand: After our hectic day of sightseeing in Haridwar, we were happy that we had booked a safari to the adjacent Rajaji National Park and could escape […]
India 2016 (part XXX): Rishikesh
Rishikesh, Uttarakhand: After several weeks of work in Jaipur, I took a weekend off and jumped on the night train to Haridwar. Upon arrival, I left my luggage in a […]
India 2016 (part XXIX): Sights of Jaipur 5
Jaipur, Rajasthan: Following the walks through the city centre of Jaipur and the small town of Amber, I visited the temples of Galtaji together with a friend. We started our […]
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 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 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 […]
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