Here come the long-awaited pictures, panoramas and movies from our three-week trip to Japan in March and April this year. We travelled from Tokyo via Kyōto and Hiroshima to Kagoshima and spent the last days on the remote island of Yakushima. In each area we visited many of the local attractions and collected interesting and […]
Roundtrip through the Scottish Highlands
This picture gallery is a selection of pictures from a ten-day and 1450-miles roundtrip through northern Scotland starting and ending in Edinburgh. The SPIE conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation was held in Edinburgh this year – a can’t miss opportunity for us to visit Scotland for the first time. After the week of the conference in the City we rented a […]
New picture and panorama galleries from Iceland and East Greenland added
These picture and panorama galleries are a selection from our three week-tour to Iceland and East Greenland in August and September last year. After we had circled Iceland by car already in 2010 we concentrated this time on some of the areas we had to skip like the highlands around Kerlingarfjöll and Landmannalaugar. Of course we rediscovered a […]
New gallery from Laguna del Laja added
End of March we visited together with our friend Guido from Switzerland the Laguna del Laja National Park near Antuco in the Bío-Bío Region some 500 km south of Santiago. We spent the long weekend at the Antucalhue Cottage right at the entrance to the park. On our first day we explored the park along the main […]
New picture gallery from Southern Africa released
Here comes the long-awaited picture gallery from our tour to Southern Africa. We spent three exciting weeks in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe in August this year. We drove with a rental car 4300 km from Windhoek, Namibia, to Kasane, Botswana, passing through the Namib Naukluft, Etosha, and Chobe National Parks. After some amazing first days and […]
New picture gallery from Iguazú Waterfalls released
The first new picture gallery released on this site is from a short trip to the Iguazú waterfalls end of February this year. I participated in a scientific conference in Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil and Angelika was able to accompany me. During the week we had the opportunity to visit the Brazilian and the Argentinian […]
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