15.09.2022     In 2005 I was again on a short visit to Rishikesh and Joshimath. That was at Christmas and I wanted to give myself a special gift: skiing! There is a great skiing area in Auli near Joshimath. However, I was unlucky: it was crisp cold, but no snow had fallen yet. Skiing … Continue reading Uttarakhand – Uttaranchal, Garhwal and plans → Read more

30.03.2022   Before food there is weather. It was really crazy: when I went out in the morning it was summer and my jacket over the T-Shirt too warm. When I went at 5 pm to the dancing, it was raining snow.     I went out this morning for a lunch date with another … Continue reading Bishkek – but dancing, bit eating and even more women → Read more

29.03.2022   My first kyrgyz contactwas at Istanbul airport with two women who were also flying from Munich to Bishkek. One of them had previously gone to Miesbach as an au pair. She liked it so much that she went on to study in Munich and stayed there. She had to go to Kyrgyzstan for … Continue reading Bishkek – the colourful city and women stories → Read more

28.03.2022   Yeah, yeah, yeah – I, or better said a very nice young lady in the iStore, have solved my problem with the image transfer! So now blog expansion with camera pictures!   I arrived at the hotel tired as a dog, napped a bit and then had to start walking right away and explore … Continue reading Bishkek – grey weather, grey architecture, colourful entertainment → Read more

27.03.2022   Shit, shit, shit, what worked fine in Armenia doesn’t work in Kyrgyzstan (yet): transferring photos from the camera to the iPad. Has something changed, is it hopefully just the memory card that I didn’t use last year? I’ll keep trying.   Anyway, I arrived in Bishkek. Dog-tired. A big plane flew into Istanbul … Continue reading Kyrgyzstan – arriving → Read more

25.03.2022   Tomorrow I start. A new country. Kyrgyzstan. Since Corona, everything has to be handled and planned much more flexibly, so I had already asked for a holiday of 3 weeks in early spring, but it was only 2 months before that really became concrete. And then it was time to see where I … Continue reading Kyrgyzstan – before the trip → Read more

06.10.2021 I think this is now the last blogpost about the trip. And kind of a conclusion. Would I want to go to Armenia again? Would I recommend other people to travel to Armenia?   Armenia is as big as Brandenburg. So it is quite small for a country. I.e. you can travel everywhere within … Continue reading Armenia – how is it as a travel destination? → Read more

05.10.2021 I went to Armenia by night train. Back, I thought it would be nice to take a minibus during the day. That should work fine from Gyumri. First I needed a PCR test. While inTbilisi they are a dime a dozen in the city, in Armenia you have to look hard for one. I … Continue reading Armenia -> Tbilisi – return with a new view → Read more

04.10.2021 My last destination in Armenia was Gyumri. It is the second largest city in Armenia (170,000), just on the border with Turkey. It was built in 1837 by a fortress founded by Russians. It had many different names: Alexandropol, Leninakan and Kumajri – until the current name Gyumri was agreed upon.   The most … Continue reading Gyumri – city, black and earthquake → Read more

03.10.2021 In the Dilijan area, multi-day hiking seemed a bit too complicated for me. But there were plenty of day tours on offer and I did a few of them. Here I will tell you about two of them. First I started on the tour with the 2 churches. This gave me the opportunity to … Continue reading Dilijan – 2 hikes, 3 churches and 1 summit cross → Read more