In 13 months through Asia: temples and forts, beaches and volcanoes, mountains and gorges… India Landing in Mumbai ⋅ Goa ⋅ Kerala ⋅ The Indian Restaurant ⋅ Temple, Temple, Tamil Nadu ⋅ Give me school-pen! ⋅ Hampi ⋅ Hyderabad ⋅ Ellora and Ajanta ⋅ Gujarat ⋅ Udaipur ⋅ Mount Abu ⋅ Jodhpur ⋅ Jaisalmer ⋅ … Continue reading “13 months as a backpacker through Asia”
From Lhasa to Kathmandu — in one week by jeep, via Gyantse, Shigatse and Everest Base Camp
A city with thin air, pilgrims at the Jokhang Temple and the Potala Palace
A trek in Tibet from Ganden Monastery to Samye Monastery: over two high passes in 4 days
Lake Nam Tso is exactly what you imagine Tibet to be
Teahouses and pandas in Chengdu, salt and dinosaurs in Zigong, temples and mountains on Emei Shan and the giant Buddha statue in Leshan (China)
Surreal landscape in Hunan (China)
Cruise through the gorges of the Yangtze (China)
For around 2000 years, Xian was the capital of China regardless of the ruling dynasties. Accordingly, the city and its surroundings are full of ancient temples, gates and tombs. One of the most interesting buildings is the Great Mosque, it looks like a Chinese temple, the minaret like a pagoda. But the main reason to … Continue reading “Xian”
Cave temples with Buddha statues and an old town (Shanxi, China)
The city is criss-crossed by wide avenues lined with skyscrapers, but in between there are still remnants of the hutons, the old neighbourhoods of low, grey brick houses, where old people drink tea in the shade or play board games in the narrow alleys; coal sellers cycle their wares to customers… The centre of the … Continue reading “Beijing”
More or less wild sections of the Great Wall with mountainous ups and downs between Huanghua and Mutianyu
Around Yangzhou, once again, cone karst at its finest – admittedly quite similar to the corresponding landscapes in northern Vietnam or southern Thailand. The best thing is to cruise through the landscape on a bicycle (if only it weren’t so brutally hot), because between the rocky limestone mountains everything is flat. I was less prepared … Continue reading “Guilin cone karst”
Macau and Guangzhou (Canton)