It is over and it has not even started. This years trek to the holy mountain to Mt. Kailash is over and has not even started. The original planning were that by today we drive up to Bhaktapur, stay there a night to be early at the border to Tibet by tomorrow. But things have changed. We got rolled over by the news. Just a view days ago it happened that the protests by Tibetean monks at the Kirti Monastery happened, which ended up by locking down...

It happened to me: I had my first trip to India for business reasons. I was scheduled to go to the Wind Power India 2011. My presentation at the conference was not accepted so I just visited the fair ground. The fair ground was one main hall and a one small hall. In the main hall a huge space was devoted to a shared space for companies from Denmark. That was then also the main message as seen on the other booths: distributors from...

It’s been a long time, almost a year, that I was here. But coming back feels like to have left only yesterday. It’s weired coming back into such a city. Because even that I arrived very late in the evening and been driven through the city during a power outage, which means everything is dark, I’m able to recognize the streets and things like that. Monika just said yesterday “partly it feels like coming home.” Yes,...

Until now, I was two times in Ecuador and Galápagos. The first, it was just for the reason I didn’t know what to do else. The second time I came back, because I wanted to leave Germany and wanted to be as far away as possible. I don’t wanted to meet any Germans even in my holidays. But it happened to become different than expected. But first things first. In 2005 my colleague hinted to me to 16 day travel experience to Ecuador and...