Ethiopia – Cradle of mankind
Without doubt East Africa is the cradle of mankind and also Ethiopia has its stake in this unique development. The country’s beauty isn’t as apparent as hay swimming on the surface; it has to be discovered by big adventure. Buckets with Sangria, animators jumping around uncoordinatedly and parties for singles are foreign words here. On the other hand you get the chance to see worldwide unique cultural and natural sights with your own eyes: lava lakes, hostile deserts and acid volcanoes approach you hand in hand with globally inimitable rock churches and the monumental Simien Mountains, which is the source of the life-bringing Blue Nile »»
Sulphur-mine and acid lake – Indonesia sits on a volcano
There are only a few places on our planet, where our civilized world is colliding with the earth’s forces. Indonesia undoubtedly belongs to those places, as nowhere else in the world human life is daring to sit on a volcano the crowded way. An offshoot of the Pacific Ring of Fire is transporting the seismic heartbeat literally like an artery to the doorsteps of Java, Sumatra & Co. Catastrophes with an apocalyptic dimension happened there: the explosion of lake Toba, of the volcanos Tambora and Krakatoa, as well as the seaquake and the dramatic Tsunami on December 26th 2004 »»
Iceland – Elves, Hákarl and boiling Earth
“Elves, Hákarl and a boiling Earth” – That’s how Hollywood could have headlined and promoted my Icelandic road movie. At the end of a journey almost all around the island, I travelled more than 3800 kilometres through landscapes that nowadays still appear like at the time of God’s creation. For some people Iceland automatically means something like an Artically cold island with all-season mulled wine service. It’s so much more. I was lucky to have weather, spring and the midnight sun on my side; two major ingredients to put the following photo documentary of a worldwide unique place, located at the interface of American and Eurasian continental plate as well as Atlantic and Artic Ocean in a perspective of God’s eternal creation »»
Morocco – Orient or Africa?
One time in my life I always wanted to cross into Morroco the traditional way, from Europe to Africa, from Gibraltar to Tanger »»
Categories: Dossiers
Between Orient and Occident
Who hasn’t heard about Stories from One Thousand and One Nights before? Without doubt there is no other region in the world as mythic as shrouded in legends Orient. For centuries it was a cultural centre of then known world, but also birthplace of civilisation’s achievements. Its proximity to the Holy Land and its wealth in terms of trading and resources quickly brought the Orient into the focus of Western civilisation. Conflicts came up, ebbed away or are persisting until presence. Empires were built and broke down again. Hence, one of the most enthralling and most misconceived areas of our planet. »»
Categories: Dossiers