End of March 2024     It’s been a year since I had to travel home from Nepal unexpectedly. At the time, I was actually planning to travel to the Everest region and tackle the 3-pass trek there. The photos on the internet just looked too good. I didn’t want to be put off by … Continue reading Nepal 2024 – before the trip → Read more

February 2019   India is very, very different from Germany. There are obvious differences such as clothing, architecture, it smells different and the noise is also different to ours. I find the details and communication fascinating. And the village visits in particular showed us a lot of that. At first glance, the villages in a … Continue reading South Rajasthan – Afterthoughts → Read more

February 2019   I actually prefer walking through the countryside to driving through it. But sometimes I also like to sit in the car with my camera glued to the window, watch what’s whizzing through the lens and press the shutter. For sure a bit more in areas where I think I’ll get a good … Continue reading Driving around and Landscapes → Read more

27. February 2019   I got to know a Raika family a few years ago. They lived in the Thar Desert near Bikaner and were traditional camel breeders. Somehow I had got it into my head that the Raika are only involved with camels. However, there are hardly any camels in southern Rajasthan, but many … Continue reading Godwad II – the Raika Misters → Read more

27. February 2019     In the Godwad region of south-west Rajasthan, there is a village whose name I can’t remember. A new camp has been set up in the area. It has become a nice place with large tents with comfortable beds and showers and toilets. People from the village are employed to clean, … Continue reading Godwad I – visiting Suki → Read more

25. February 2019   Ghanerao has the same number of inhabitants as my village in Germany (7,000). It is also described as a village on the internet. But after the many other village visits, it seemed more like a small town to me. What is different is that there is a Muslim community, for example. … Continue reading Ghanerao – no village → Read more

24. + 25. February 2019   In the middle of the Aravalli Mountains is Kumbalgarh, a fortress with a 36 km long wall (the second longest in the world after the Chinese wall) on a ridge around 1,000 metres high. Inside this fortress were a princely palace, 360 temples, residential buildings and many people.   … Continue reading Kumbalgarh – Fortress and Hike → Read more

24. February 2019     The village already has a name, of course – but I can’t remember it and can’t find it on the map. The story of the visit goes like this:   Even if the villages in South Rajasthan, for example, seem very similar at first, the walks are always a little different. … Continue reading Nameless Village – a Visit → Read more

23. February 2019   One village after another… Samal is on the way to Kumbalgarh. Another village with a mixture of tribals and caste children. And another focus: cooking together! We were with a family where it seemed to me that there hadn’t been that many people before. There was a large interested audience.   … Continue reading Samal – cooking Food and climbing Hill → Read more

22. February 2019   I was in Jhadol in 2010. This is a village near Udaipur in the Aravalli mountains. At that time, a couple had opened a new resort there, which is the Jhadol Safari Resort . Very comfortable, very nicely integrated into the landscape. And I was given a tour of the nearby … Continue reading Jhadol – seeing again → Read more