Travel

The Cochin Melting Pot

08/02/2014

With less than 50% Hindus, and as much as 30% Muslims and 20% Christians in addition to minority religions such as Jainism and Buddhism, Kerala is India’s most religiously [...]

Water palaces in Alleppey

06/02/2014

Alleppey, or Alappuzha, town is not noteworthy, and hardly the “Venice of India” that it is sometimes called by people who have never seen Venice. The reason it is so [...]

The wonderful Goan bubble

27/01/2014

We had just landed and were waiting for our bags, when a simple conversation with a young airport employee already revealed one difference between Goa and the rest of India. [...]

Warming up in Bombay

23/01/2014

Freshly retired and suddenly benefiting from the otherwise rare combination of time and money, my mom had given me the task to organize a family holiday in India, a country [...]

China Babble

09/09/2013

On a quick trip to China, checking out the reality of the world’s manufacturing hub Guangdong. Not having done my homework, I had expected the region’s two main cities [...]

Entwicklungstourismus

18/01/2013

Wenn westliche Touristen ein “Entwicklungsland” bereisen, dann ist oft der Name Programm: Wie sich Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft weiterentwickeln, welche Hoffnungen [...]

12 Gänge mit dem Mofa

17/01/2013

Heute berichte ich euch live – und wiedermal essend – aus dem ABC Café auf der berühmten Straße Pham Ngu Lao von meinem gestrigen kulinarischen Erlebnis, das [...]

Mr. Bean und der Krieg

16/01/2013

Ich widme den Titel dieses Berichts dem Reiseführer meines gestrigen Ausflugs zu den Viet Cong-Tunneln außerhalb Saigons – denn nicht die Besichtigung, sondern er war [...]