Since my first glimpse of Mount Kilimanjaro, at the Kenyan border near Amboseli, I could not get this question out of my mind: “How the hell am I going to climb up there?” Back home when I was preparing my trip to Tanzania, I would not have dreamed to ascend Africa’s highest peak, almost twenty thousand feet above sea level. But…
Upon entering the Taman Negara reservation, I was assigned a local guide – a small, thin and very polite young man named Danny. He was a great admirer of the traditions and way of life of the indigenous people. He sometimes went hunting with them in the jungle, with nothing but a spear and a bow, and slept in the trees at…
I arrived in Bali after a long flight that took me across the Equator, to the Pacific Ring of Fire. As a first destination, I had chosen Sanur, a town on the east coast of the island. I had read that the atmosphere was more relaxed there, compared to the resorts on the west coast, well-known for their party vibe.…
Remote and untamed, Tioman is constantly rated as one of the most beautiful islands in the world… here is a little video proof.
A short video with images from my trip to Cuba, going from the old Havana to the charming colonial town of Cienfuegos and ending in the magic southern city of Trinidad… on a salsa rythm, of course!
A video about my trip to Chitwan in Nepal, a place rich in wildlife and indigenous traditions.
I was in the Sabah province, in the far north of Borneo, heading from the Kinabatangan river valley to my next destination, the Danum Reservation. After unforgettable encounters with elephants and orangutans, the time had come for a completely different experience: a descent into the bowels of the earth, into the famous Gomantong Cave. In the darkness of that cave,…
Compared to the 7-8000 m high peaks of the Himalayas, the one that I climbed (3210 m) was called by the locals a “hill”… This is a video about my trip to Pokhara and the Poon Hill trek in the Annapurna massif, Nepal.
Images from my trip to the capital of Nepal and the UNESCO monuments of the Kathmandu Valley, before they were devastated by the 2015 earthquake:
Someone was waiting for me at the airport, to drive me to my guesthouse in Havana. As it was late in the evening, the first thing that struck me was the almost complete darkness of the streets. Old images of the life behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe came to my mind instantly, and have continued to return on…
The arrival of the dry season meant that it was time for the animals of the savannah to migrate north: from the Serengeti plains, across the Tanzanian border, to the cooler and greener Maasai Mara Plateau in Kenya. When the rains would start again, they would go back the same way. The wildebeest migration is one of the most spectacular…
My adventure in the Himalayas was meant to start in Pokhara, a small Nepalese town on the shores of a vast clear lake at the foot of the Annapurna massif. The surface of the lake, framed by purple water lilies, was reflecting all the surrounding mountains – which were dominated by the 22,793 feet high Machapuchare, a razor-sharp peak always covered…
My first vacation alone had happened a year before, but not because I had planned for it. I had gone to Greece with some friends, but it turned out that our plans were diverging. I considered going back home, but I changed my mind last minute and decided to continue the journey by myself. The rather positive experience that followed…
