Toerke

The bus finds a critical balance between the rocks, the ravine and the river and after 8 hours hobbles into the Pokhara bus park. The flat tire and the two flipped wrecks at the side of the road are safely towed into a corner of your selective memory or you’ll never go anywhere again. Lakeside [...]

All of a sudden you’ve had it. You’re fed up. People approaching you, watching you. “Hasj? Opium? Smoke?”, “Please ma’m lookie, no buy only lookie” or “me no food”. All of a sudden you want to turn your head and snare at the dealer boy “Do I look like a junkie to you?”, at the [...]

Chitwan National Park. To awaken to the trembling elephant’s trumpet. To float into the jungle in a tree trunk canoe, crocodiles at bay. To walk into the nest of rhinos, birds and monkeys. To swing through the greens on the elephant’s back feeling like a king. To rock hours on end in the hammock of [...]

The monks at Ganden monastery play the opening tune to our trek across the Tibetan Plateau – 60 km from Ganden to Samye, 4 days on foot. The yakdriver on his cotton sneakers and the tough yaks waltz effortlessly through the thin air and rough terrain. We, on the other hand, need to stop every [...]