After four exciting, stirring but cold weeks in South Korea and Japan I was happy to feel some warmth of the sun on my skin. It was late afternoon when I arrived in Hong Kong and right away I strolled down towards the bay. But where am I? The same questions asked the British East Indian […]
For some travelers a city like Shanghai with its population close to 25 000 000 might appear tremendous, intimidating or even overwhelming. Others appreciate the anonymity in such a metropolis, enjoying its variety and feel a vast extend instead of tightness. The spectrum why whom and what each individual enjoys or attracts to this huge […]
Being here in Penang feels like… another life, no wonder because my last visit lays back 36 years ago when my mother took me on a adventures journey around the world. Back then it was really cool (if the word cool existed already) for a sixteen-year-old boy to travel and I was on the same spot, […]
After traveling four weeks through the Philippines, Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia is quite a cultural change and challenge. The Philippines are a Christian-majority country. More specifically the people, the Filipinos/Filipinas are by majority Christians. Here in Malaysia, it is conversely, the majority is Sunni Islamic and the chief of state or the so-called Yang di-Pertuan Agong gets voted...
The fourth and last Blog about the Philippines is meant to be a colorful storybook into a world of macrocosm with marvelous creatures like the Tarsier, sea tortoises, butterflies and seductive sounding places such as Chocolate Hills and Balicasang Island. So please do not expect (this time) a meticulous blog based on intense investigation and rhetorical […]
The ocean is rough, unpredictable and without compromises and I can feel how my grip on the railing is getting tighter while I lower my head towards the neck. My nose is pointing to the clouded sky, unconscious like if I would like to see, taste, touch, smell and listen to it at the same time. The wings […]
The last weeks I travelled through mega cities such as Seoul, Osaka, Kyoto, Shanghai and Hong Kong. All those cities have a tremendous speed, density and its own kind of automatism which catches you whilst staying there. You feel subjected to the dynamic of the city like you are captured in an endless ribbon of time. Unless… […]
Nara / Japan, part III With a population of 377.000 Nara is a small town besides most of the other big cities in Japan. It is a ‘quiet’ city but it was not always like that because Nara was, in the Nara time where it was known as Heijō-kyō, the capital city of Japan. That was between 710 […]
Kyoto / Japan, part II The agreement of the Kyoto-protocol decided on the 11th of December 1997 by the United Nations become effective in February 2015 with the goal of climate protection and to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions within the first declaration of obligation (2008 -2012) by 5.2 % average compare to the quote […]
Osaka / Japan, part I 99 hours Osaka and… not everything that is pinky and smells like cherry blossoms are worth gold! Japan is fighting at many different fronts and with more than 127 million people, the Hikikomori issue is just one of many battles let to be fought (more about the Hikikomori phenomenon you […]
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