Part of a trip that brought me to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Palau, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands before being cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic in Fiji. United Arab Emirates: Sharjah – visited February 2020 – I prefer travelling overland to flying. Airplanes are faceless and look […]
Part of a trip that brought me to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Palau, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands before being cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic in Fiji. Saudi Arabia Part II: Medina, Al Ula, Riyadh, Hofuf – second part of my visit to Saudi Arabia in January/February […]
Part of a trip that brought me to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Palau, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands before being cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic in Fiji. Saudi Arabia: Jeddah, Abha, Jizan – First part of my visit to Saudi Arabia in January/February 2020 – Passing […]
Eastern Turkey In some ways the May 2012 visit to Eastern Turkey is complementary to the trip to Armenia two years earlier. We had always seen majestic Mount Ararat in the distance and this evoked the desire to get closer to the mountain. The trip also had a political dimension. The border between Armenia and […]
Mad Dash Home: Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary In the autumn of 2003, I took a three-month trip travelling back to Germany from Hong Kong overland via mainland China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan and Georgia. In mid-December, I had only reached Georgia and had to make a decision how to get back in […]
I visited Iran in 2003 on a three-month trip travelling back to Germany from China overland that also brought me to Hong Kong, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Georgia before ending in a Mad Dash Home to make it back in time for Christmas. A word of warning. The quality of my pictures from this […]