Starting the ninth grade I came up with the plan do engage in a student exchange to an English-speaking country. To be away from home for a while, to get to know new people, places and cultures and to gain
When I was on a Skype talking to my sister, who was spending a gap year in Ecuador doing some volunteer work. In a couple of weeks, she would go to Columbia to travel with some friends, and we started
A few hours drive through the snowy highland roads brought us to Scotlands smallest city. We arrived around midnight and walked around the little town for a good while, because my phone had died, before finding Student Hostel Inverness up
More than a year ago I had met my partner in Barcelona and scraping the bottom of our wallets we wanted to go on a trip down memory-lane if nothing else to try to patch our crumbling relationship by reducing
It has been six months since I moved from, the now awfully dismal seeming Manchester, up north to Scotland. It is a beautiful city with loads of history, culture and stunning views. Some of my favourites about this place I
In a few weeks my adventure starts, here is how a got (kind of prepared) for the six months I would travel Mexico. I had booked the flight to Cancun for the beginning of September and am majorly exited at
I have now spend around a week in Cancun and surroundings and I have never seen anything like it. Get yourself away from this and into the downtown you will find a very different city, that of locals, expands
I have now spend around a week in Cancun and surroundings and I have never seen anything like it.
To be able to see more of the smaller towns and secluded places on the Yucatan in a short time, a few mates I met in Merida and I decided to rent a car. We went off to discover the
To visit my dear friend Lucia, I took a flight from Merida to Monterrey and spend 10 days in to upper class uni circles of the city and their house
I spend a week around Mazatlán. The sun, the beach and everything there was beautiful.
There are several smaller and bigger towns in the bay close to each other and well connected I think in saw most of them during my time here.
Two neighbours on the stunning pacific coast with very different vibes and ways of life
Within three days in experienced some of the big City, the village Tequila and a distinctive distillery as well as the traditional suburb Tlaquepaque.
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In the middle of Mexico, at around 2500 meters elevation lays the state Zacatecas with its capital city also called Zacatecas. Enrichened in old times by the nearby silver mines the city is a collection of ancient indigenous villages due
An abundant area with waterfalls, jungle, caves and masterpieces of architecture. One of the areas most worth visiting so far. For the first two nights we chose Ciudad Valles as a base, within a few hours drive many natural phenomena
A wallflower city near Guanajuato transforms to a huge Festival. With a friend, I hitchhiked from Guanajuato to León and from the city we had to take another car to the festival grounds.
Travelers often call it the hippy town, and so it dwells in its existence with many artisans, Yoga meetups and hostels.
Despite the official warnings to travel this area I had a most amazing time on the pacific coast of Colima. I couldn’t really find an affordable place online, so I booked a hostel in Santiago, a few Kilometres away. Neither
How I saw more butterflies in one glance than I would ever see in the rest of my life combined
Several weeks I travelled this part of the Mexican coastline visting Playa Azul, Puerto Vicente Zihuatanejo, Troncones, Saladita and Paya Linda. I had a purely amazing time with the local low key surf community in Zihua’ and Troncones and the
A little shock dropping myself into a city of 22 million People coming from a tiny beach town, but I had a great time. I walked around the huge Chapultepec park, wondered around the streets lined with cafés and small
On my travels the first impression I get of the place is very important. How inviting is the atmosphere, how friendly are the people? Arriving in Tepotzlan it was one of these places where everything just seems to happen
To escape a mass of people visiting Puerto Escondido I decided to stay in La Punta. But the new year celebrations brought them anywhere on the coast.
Zipolite is separated in two very different extremes. To the west there are resort like big hotels, there is a vivid night life attracting locals and travelers from the whole bay area. Towards the east there is a calm authentic
Oaxaca is the capital city of the equally named state and a very popular destination for backpackers and Holiday goers alike. The Oaxacan cuisine is one of the most significant ones in Mexico and many are taking the opportunity to
Around a week of my time in Mexico I spend in the jungle just outside Palenque. I was staying in a hostel across the road from El Panchan jungle base, I a small partially closed wooden hut in the beautiful
My new favourite place in the world. A City full of beauty and villages full of traditions.
It was located right in front of the beach and two surf spots, and at least 5 more within a 15 minutes’ drive. [
Booking a long-distance flight when you basically don’t know if you will be allowed to leave your house next week is a risky business, but to just hold back with life till this is over is even more risky I
came to this inland part of Brasil to tour some of the waterfalls and jungle beauty but that will have to wait till tomorrow. Here, most waterfalls are guarded, and you will have to pay a small entrance fee to
Agadir being the first stop on my new exiting travels is a great place to arrive in Morocco. While two weeks would probably be too much time to spend in the city for any active adventure seeking solo traveler without
My short visit in Menkés gave me the most local impression of Moroccan everyday life so far. As I was staying with the family of a friend from Essaouira i got a glimpse into traditional family life and the city
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We got greeted outside on the camping area by some brothers and sisters happy to break the silent meditation, introducing us to what the day might bring. The first time I walked into the camp, quiet and reverent in preparation
France country roads were my way for about a day and a half. After picking up a professional coffee grinder, to complete the equipment I was to bring to the artist-coffee project in Dakhla I continued to the French border
The whole summer fell into place when I got the incredible opportunity to borrow a car and therefor embark on a journey that has never been on my mind. The drive itself was absolutely incredible, days of rolling through the
a little poem about the lost of my beloved father Bruno in the place of his last, eternal journey
After picking up my little brother in Sevilla we fled the city with its 42°C as quick as possible to head to the coast. Having been driving so much each day for the past few weeks I was keen to
On my way up to Spains north coast and some more surf I make a stop in Toledo. And what a beautiful place that is. I had never heard of it before, but my lovely friend Alex recommended it me
The excitement for this part of Spain was great. Surf on almost every beach, travelsom chilled people dedicating their life to art and living, this is how I pictured the place to be, judging from the Basque people I had
I only had around two days to driving up from the port in Rosslare, where I landed after the long ferry ride from Bilbao, to Northern Ireland where the wedding of my dear friend would take place. But what a
I arrived in the Resort near Limavady on the day before the wedding with all the other lovely people from Edinburgh. Two nights I sneaked into the fancy resort my lovely friends were staying at for the wedding, got myself
A place, around three-days travel from Katmandu, five hours in a cramped jeep up the mountains along something that can barely be called a road, crossing rivers so deep the water gets into the loading deck of the jeep, all
Having obtained the E-Visa for India, I was not allowed to arrive to the country by land border from Nepal but had to fly in. A Travel agent in Lumbini had told me that there is apparently an E-Visa that
Longing for the ocean and the beach we raced down the long way from New Delhi to Goa searching for a place where we wouldn’t have to think about where to go next and how to get there every day.
Sitting in the back of the collective tuk-tuk starring out onto the dark road and forest, just that little handle dangling in front of my face I felt like I was sitting in a rollercoaster. The squeaking of the engine
Living in Hiriketiya, Sri Lanka for around six weeks now, I was well exited to go on a little trip again. For the first time here, I packed my backpack with the essentials, comfortably leaving the most things in our
I love the life on the road, the impressions, the ever new, the reduction to the essentials, all of this makes me move through the world all my life. Now I have been out and about for such a long
Keeping this awareness, an open heart and mind, and not to get caught up in thoughts, emotions or the dwelling on unreachable things. To keep up and evolve in this open conscious perception of ourselves and everything we relate to.
I want to emphasise that I’m intending to share what my personal perception on these topics was. During overall seven months I tried to get as diverse an impression of the country as I could and did see many different
The circumstances that brought me here, to this place, this point in my life and the people that I am surrounded with is a purely magical story and one to tell in its full length in a different format. The