15. + 16. September 2024   I have stress. I was already stressed before. How am I supposed to pack a Ladakh-Zanskar trip into just 3 weeks? And how am I supposed to fit the meetings with the people into just 4 days in Leh? Just get on with it…   Tundup, who is my … Continue reading Friends – in Leh / part 1 → Read more

14 + 15. September 2024     Somehow I have the impression that the flights and journeys are becoming more and more ‘exciting’ for me. And so it gets its own post here too. The situation was: heavy rainfall in Saxony and Bavaria. And I was flying via Munich. In addition, a bridge in Dresden … Continue reading Flying – From Dresden to Leh → Read more

8. September 2024     I’m dragging my feet! After all the winter trips to Ladakh, this time – if it works out as planned – I will land in Leh on September 15. And then I want to go to Zanskar, trek there and arrive back in Delhi without a flight.   The last … Continue reading Zanskar 2024 – before the trip → Read more

26. + 27. December 2018   Besides Mothakkara, the village of women, there is another one in Wayanad with great homestay experiences. Thrikkaipetta is all about bamboo. Bamboo is planted and then processed. This is done by the company Uravu. In addition to the shop with lots of beautiful things, you can also watch the … Continue reading Thrikkaipetta – The Bamboo-Village → Read more

25. December 2018     In India (and perhaps other countries too), people sometimes offer to wear the local clothes for a photo, for example. I always thought that was pretty silly.   But when I was once dressed privately in Rajasthan, I changed my mind. Dressing up and getting dressed up leads to nice … Continue reading Sari – A Wearing-Experience → Read more

December 2018     There are 2 villages in Wayanad in Kerala where Kabani Tours takes travellers. Now a third one has been added (see below). These three villages have different focuses. One has a lot to contribute to agriculture, the other is the ‘bamboo village’ and the third, Mothakkara, where I stayed for a … Continue reading Mothakkara – The Village of the Women → Read more

20. December 2018     I’m down on my luck at the moment: My piece of luggage that didn’t arrive is still missing (including down jacket, down sleeping bag, souvenirs, Kamerakidz pen pals, Kamerakidz books and calendars and so on and so forth…) and then the day before yesterday my hard drive in my laptop … Continue reading Bad Luck and Christian Encounter → Read more

December 2018     Me, the lover of dry and mountainous landscapes, in Kerala? That doesn’t fit, does it? That’s right! And also not….   2006 was my first and last time in Kerala. Although I liked the backwaters and Kochi, one of the things that bothered me was the heat. And in 2014, when … Continue reading Why Kerala → Read more

11. December 2018     I didn’t see much of Kozhikode itself because we travelled straight to the Wayanad district in the village of Mothakkara. And I’ve been there ever since.   My biggest fear before my time in Kerala was the heat. My second biggest fear was the (too spicy) food. Neither of these … Continue reading Kozhikode -> Mothakkara – up to the green hills → Read more

11. December 2018     Once upon a time…..   … during the Indian colonial era. The mountains of the Wayanad district were still unconquered by the British. There was only one path that the local Adivasi, the indigenous people, knew. An English engineer hired Karinthandam, a chief, to show him the way. He did … Continue reading Karinthandam → Read more