#5 How my World Trip really Started
I had already been on the road for an entire week, but it somehow didn’t feel like traveling. First, I had traveled through Germany visiting friends. Then, I explored Moscow -the Russian capital- with...
Category: World Trip
#3 I wanted to travel the world – How come?
Ten years ago, I made an important and life-changing decision: I’ll travel the world – alone. I made this decision because of a deep desire to escape daily routines and expectations. This deep desire...
Packing for my world trip – a critical review
I’ve recently thought about my world trip and all the things I stuffed into my backpack. Now, three years later, I would organize everything in a very different way. So, let’s take a closer...
How I ended up entering China without a visa
Initial situation: Flight Tokyo Haneda to Hongkong a transfer in Shanghai Pudong old China visa in my passport confused people at the airport at that time no transit visa in China yet When I...
How I ended up entering China without a visa
Initial situation: Flight Tokyo Haneda to Hongkong a transfer in Shanghai Pudong old China visa in my passport confused people at the airport at that time no transit visa in China yet When I...
Never, never – The “other” jamming session in Peru
This is a story from the very end of my trip that I wanted to share. It is not the typical travelogue and not about a certain place that I’ve visited. I’ve been on...
Welcome to the jungle
One of the best things I ever did was staying/living in the rain forest for four days. I tied my hammock in a house made of bamboo without windows, no electricity and yes I...
Confusion in San Jose
After Christmas, well on the 2nd day 😉 I wanted to take a bus from San Jose to Puerto Viejo which is on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. I knew the location of...
Imprinting museum visits in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Visiting this two cities I realized what those “droppings” are really meaning. Almost everything around me had to be rebuild. Just one building, the so called Atomic Dome, in Hiroshima “survived the atomic bomb....
78 hours later – The end of a long train ride
Wow – over three days have passed since our departure from Moscow. Now I’m in Irkutsk and have travelled about 5000 km with many stops and a lot of impressions. I’m still very impressed...
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