19. December 2025     After arriving in Leh and resting for 24 hours, we set off on our sightseeing tour. For me, it was more about seeing what had changed and what had stayed the same. We first walked through the old town to the palace. I hadn’t been inside for a long time, … Continue reading Ladakh: Leh – Flying Fireballs → Read more

16. December 2025     I still had a whole day in Trivandrum, and since I found the taxi driver quite nice, I asked him to drive me around and show me a few things. The taxi driver’s name is Asif and he is Muslim. In Kerala there are three religions: a little over 50% … Continue reading Kerala: Thiruvananthapuram – Sunglasses not allowed → Read more

15. December 2025     After one last intensive treatment, I left Somatheeram and was taken by taxi to my accommodation in Trivandrum. There I transferred to another taxi, which took me to Sreejith, and together we traveled on to Ponmudi.   Sreejith is a colleague from Kerala who arranges journeys with special encounters and … Continue reading Kerala: Ponmudi – Airy heights and dense forest → Read more

8. – 15. December 2025     On the 8th, I set off for the airport and a little over three hours later arrived far in the south, at Trivandrum Airport. The night before hadn’t been very good, and toward the end of the flight a really bad phase began. I quickly found the driver … Continue reading Kerala: Somatheeram – Meatball in Oil → Read more

5. + 14. Dezember 2025     Before I get to my reflections afterward, I first want to tell the end of the journey. Because it did not go as planned. We had a flight with IndiGo from Dimapur to Delhi and wanted to spend the time until the afternoon visiting the Hornbill Festival again … Continue reading Northeast-India – Afterthoughts → Read more

3. + 4. Dezember 2025     To reach the highlight of the trip, we still needed one more day of driving. In Dimapur we visited these ruins of the Kachari culture. By that point, all these different cultures had simply become too much for me in such a short time, so the visit was … Continue reading Nagaland: Hornbill Festival – a pig donates itself → Read more

1. + 2. Dezember 2025     The Indigenous Faith Day celebrations wrapped up around midday, and we continued our journey. This time there were no more villages, but instead a bit of scenery, including the confluence of the Siang (which becomes the Brahmaputra) and the Siyom. In that area there are still some old … Continue reading Arunachal Pradesh -> Sibsagar/Assam – Even those who are defeated are heroes → Read more

1. December 2025     No, they don’t celebrate early Christmas here, but in Aalo the decorations were already being offered in the shops. There were even little trees:       We were now in Aalo, a small town and another homeland of the Galo. There’s a nice market district there, and besides the … Continue reading Arunachal Pradesh: Aalo – Happy Celebrations → Read more

29. + 30. November 2025     In Nagaland, poof—just like that, at least 90% of the population has converted to Christianity, and they are eagerly engaged in missionary work. In Arunachal Pradesh, things are a bit different. In 1971, there were not even 4,000 people who identified as Christian. By 2011, it was already … Continue reading Arunachal Pradesh: Ziro -> Daporijo -> Aalo – the horror was in the middle → Read more

28. + 29. November 2025     The first impression of Arunachal Pradesh: more hilly, greener, less traffic, pretty. There was also a nice viewpoint:     We didn’t drive all that far, and then we were already in Ziro, with only a road repair stopping us along the way.       Ziro is … Continue reading Arunachal Pradesh: Ziro Valley – less people, less houses, less photos → Read more