Act I: Masked Dance at Hemis Festival The Hemis Festival in Ladakh, India, is a vibrant two-day celebration in the beginning of June, marking the…
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Around the Planet into the Pocket
Transcript of the interview, published on Radio Študent, 6. 11. 2024 In the circus-focused broadcast Jutranji padec (Morning Drop) fellow circus artists Oton Korošec and…
Over high passes from Zanskar to Leh
At dinner in the homestay in Padum, sitting around low Tibetan tables on the kitchen floor, I meet Amelie, social worker and yoga teacher from…
Into India: Punjab & Kashmir
Finally I’m holding my passport again, with Indian visa stamped inside. I got only 3 months, although I asked for more time. And I’m already…
A strange paradise along Indus
After a week in Karachi I started to feel headache and sore throat. Pollution was entering my veins. Time to leave! Cityscape didn’t want to…
Eagles in Karachi’s skyline
In the dense traffic of motorbikes, rickshaws, decorated trucks, buses with passengers on the rooftop, taxis and donkey carts policeman waved goodbye. Entering the city…
Pakistani Escort Report
We‘re moving on our bikes from one check point to another, escorted by armed men on pick-ups. For last few weeks I’ve been travelling together…
Persian Islands
A saying goes No human is an island. There was a young man starting a long overland bicycle trip from Europe towards East. On the…
Across the deserts of Iran
After biketouring for 5 months and reaching 6371 km, radius of our planet, I am resting in a hammock beside the ocean and recalling memories…
Iraqi Kurdistan by bike
The air often smells of oil. There are fires in the distance and sometimes next to the road. Among them plenty of checkpoints with armed…