13. + 14. April 2025     It was time for a change of location. A flight of just over 2 hours took me to Bagdogra. This is the airport from which you travel to Darjeeling or Gangtok. Everything went great – except that I had the best seat (1A), but the magnificent Himalayan mountain … Continue reading Darjeeling – The Yaks are exhausted → Read more

13. April 2025     The Diamir famtrip is over and I’ve just arrived in Darjeeling. From 40 degrees plus to maybe 12 degrees now in the evening. Sounds exhausting? It was! The 40 degrees, that is. And a lot more besides. 10 people, 9 female, 1 male 1 German-speaking guide from Agra, highly praised … Continue reading Famtrip Diamir- The horse dances at 40 degree → Read more

29. March 2025       I have been to the region 5 times so far: 1995 Darjeeling with Singalila trekking and a short visit to Sikkim 2000 Darjeeling with Singalila trekking, which got shortened in the rain 2013 quite a long time in Sikkim with Goecha-la-Trek 2015 Kamerakidz project in Sikkim and a tourleading … Continue reading Darjeeling-Sikkim – Before the trip → Read more

End of December 2024     Start with what? Perhaps the way I travelled. On the one hand, it stressed me out, but on the other, it was chic and comfortable. It was a hybrid: I was on holiday, but Diamir gave me a few extra days for exploring and socialising. There are several agencies … Continue reading Gujarat – Afterthoughts → Read more

21. + 22. December 2024     During my preliminary research on the internet, I had found pictures of piled up large rocks and a fort. That looked like something I wanted to see. This structure is located in Idar, a ‘zero point’ on the tourist map. All the more exciting to go there once. … Continue reading Polo -> Idar -> Ahmedabad -> Delhi – The best comes at the end → Read more

20. December 2024     The distance to the next accommodation wasn’t that far. I had thought of something, but they were against it, they wanted me to travel differently, so to speak. So we travelled quite leisurely with stops to the Polo Forest. The first stop was at a Hindu temple, where probably nobody … Continue reading Poshina -> Polo – The discovery of the temple ruins → Read more

19. December 2024     Darbargadh has been in the family for 8 generations and is a chic estate. The son of the house was there all alone, parents, wife and children all gone (Just these days). Unfortunately I didn’t take any photos of him, he only appears in a video. They have quite a … Continue reading Poshina – The place of the sacrificed horses → Read more

18. December 2024     The next day, another building was on the agenda: the Sun Temple in Modhera. It dates back to the 11th century and is no longer used as a temple. There is only a small one on the grounds with a man:     The large one consists of a kind … Continue reading Patan -> Poshina – The temple of the waterbottles → Read more

17. December 2024     What’s a bit bad about Bhuj is that it’s a bit out of the way and you drive a similar route to the east again. The good thing is that you can see the industrialisation of this area again in an impressive way. And at some point it stops again … Continue reading Bhuj -> Patan – A village named Nana → Read more

16. December 2024     So the next day my new driver Deep arrived, an older, very pleasant gentleman, originally from the Udaipur area, but who works from Ahmedabad and is very experienced. We now have a much smaller car – and somehow I find it quite comfortable. We drove back to the villages that … Continue reading Banni Villages – New friends far away → Read more