In this blog, you’ll find my fun (I hope) stories and my beautiful (there’s no denying it) photos from trips taken during the decade 2012 – 2022.
Back then, I was still a young man full of hope and… no, just kidding, no whining here 
here’s the list of posts (you can also use the menu on the right or the banner with the sliding photos at the top):
Brazil: Salvador de Bahia, Arraial d’Ajuda
Brazil: Arraial d’Ajuda, Maceio
Brazil: Olinda, Recife, and Praia da Pipa
Brazil: Natal, Fortaleza, São Luís, Belem
Brazil: Amazon River from Belém to Santarém
Brazil: Alter do Chão and a new boat trip to Manaus
Brazil: Manaus. Colombia: Bogotá and Villa de Leyva
Colombia: Tayrona National Park and Santa Marta
Colombia: In search of the Ciudad Perdida…
Colombia: Cabo de la Vela and surroundings
Colombia: Cartagena and Playa Blanca
Colombia: Mompós, Medellín, and Pablo Escobar’s nephew
Colombia: Salento (coffee region), statues of San Agustín
Colombia: San Agustín, Pasto. Ecuador: Otavalo
Ecuador: Otavalo (animal market, cockfighting), Quito, the “Middle of the World”
Ecuador: Quilotoa Lake, the Kichwa, and the legend of the lovesick condor, Baños
Ecuador: Amazon rainforest near Puyo, Cuenca
Ecuador: Guayaquil, Playas, return to Quito. Colombia: Ipiales
Colombia: Laguna de la Cocha, Medellín, Capurganá. Panama: Kuna Yala Archipelago (or San Blas)
Panama: Santa Catalina, Coiba, Bocas del Toro. Costa Rica: Puerto Viejo
Costa Rica: San José, Montezuma, Playa Santa Teresa, Monteverde
Costa Rica: Monteverde, Arenal. Nicaragua: San Juan, Ometepe Island, Granada
Nicaragua: Granada and León. Guatemala: Antigua
Honduras: Copán. Guatemala: Semuc Champey
Guatemala: Tikal, Río Dulce, Livingston. Belize: Punta Gorda, Caye Caulker, and swimming with sharks
Guatemala: Lake Atitlán
Mexico (Chiapas): San Cristóbal and surroundings
Mexico: Oaxaca, Mazunte, Zapatista village of Oventic, Campeche, Cancún
Cuba: Havana, Viñales, Trinidad
UAE: Dubai. Indonesia: Jakarta, Bali, Gili Islands, Yogyakarta and surroundings, Borobudur Temple
Malta
Open Malta 2014 Chess Tournament
Iran: Tehran, Kashan, Abyaneh, Esfahan, Yazd, Shiraz, Persepolis
Amsterdam
Russia (on Trans-Siberian Railway): Vladivostok, Ulan-Ude, Taltsy, Listvyanka, Tyumen, Kazan, Moscow
Myanmar (or Burma): Yangon, Bagan, villages on Inle Lake, Ngapali
Croatia: Dubrovnik. Montenegro: Kotor, Perast. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mostar, Sarajevo. Serbia: Belgrade
Lesser Antilles: Barbados and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Lesser Antilles: Saint Lucia, Martinique, Dominica
Porto and Azores
Philippines: Manila, Palawan (Puerto Princesa, Sabang, archipelago Coron – El Nido), Cebu, Danao, Camotes Islands
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Sri Lanka: Colombo, Galle, Tangalle, Kandy, Ranawana Temple, Dambulla Caves
Sri Lanka: Sigiriya, Polonnaruwa, Kalkudah, Trincomalee, Uppuveli (whales), Anuradhapura, Mihintale
Maldives: Malé, Thoddoo, Maafushi. India (Kerala): Fort Kochi
India (Kerala): Alappuzha (backwaters), Varkala and surroundings, Kappil, Kovalam
India: Varanasi, Sarnath, Taj Mahal
Kazakhstan: Almaty. Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek, horseback at Song Kul Lakee, Osh. Tajikistan: Khujand, Dushanbe, Hisor
Uzbekistan: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, fortresses of Elliq-Qala (Karakalpakstan), Tashkent
Azerbaijan: Baku, Gobustan, Sheki. Georgia: Tbilisi, Mtskheta, Gori, Gergeti. Armenia: Yerevan, Lake Sevan, monasteries
Russia: Saint Petersburg. Finland: Helsinki, Rovaniemi and Lapland
Albania: Berat, Butrint, Gjirokastër, Shkodër, Tirana. North Macedonia: Ohrid, Skopje. Kosovo: Pristina, Prizren
Cyprus: Nicosia, Troodos, Laneia, Limassol, Neo-Paphos, Kourion. Turkish Rep. Northern Cyprus: Kyrenia, Haspolat
Slovenia: Ljubljana, Lake Bled, Koper, Piran, Izola. Croatia: Zagreb, Poreč, Rovinj, Pula, Krk, Rijeka
UAE: Abu Dhabi. Oman: Muscat, Sinkhole, Wadi Shab Canyon, Ras Al Jinz, Wahiba Sands, Birkat Al Mouz, Nizwa, Jabrin
A big hug!