Tibetan prayer flags are flattering in the wind. Their colours are in high contrast with a white background of Himalaya, the home of gods. Red…
Yak blood drinking festival
Yaks are grazing at the Sekong lake in the Kali Gandaki valley. While sitting there, a shephard approaches us. His name is Hom. He asks…
Language of faces
We are staring at each other and our language is silent. More and more people, young and old, are gathering in the small square in…
Black and white world II: Annapurna
We are already walking for a month. We carry our small world on our backs and have smelly feet almost all the time. Our hair…
A walk
After the rainy night fishermen sit on their rocks under the cliffs. El Teide, the heighest peak of Tenerife, is covered with snow, glittering over…
Land of cactuses
There are dragon trees and woody trunks of cactus crowns behind them. A place full of surprises and blooming flowers in early spring. Let’s go…
Carnival on the lunar island
After 4 months in Africa I felt as a lost stranger, walking with a backpack through the first drops of rain. Trying to remember: what…
Hospitality in the mangroves
The landscape of red and green. We walk under the burning sun bypassing the villages where people are gathering under the rich treetops. We greet…
Plastic Coast
In the evening women are coming one by one from their houses to the water, carrying buckets on their heads to empty daily household trash…
Bird Culture
While immigrating birds fly over Sahara first water on their way is river Senegal. City of Saint Louis is partly an island on the river…