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 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 Spitsbergen (Svalbard) published
Eventually I was able to prepare and publish the picture gallery from our circumnavigation of Spitsbergen with the Schooner bark Antigua in July 2013. We spent three exciting but also relaxing weeks sailing along the coastlines of Spitsbergen, exploring the islands and shores through extended hikes, and watch the fauna and flora of the arctic. The ice […]
New picture gallery from the Island of Chiloé released
Here comes the picture gallery from our Xmas/New Year tour to the Island of Chiloé in the South of Chile. After a few days in the northern part of the island where we strolled the beaches looking for fossilised dinosaur poop, we visited in particular the Tantauco park which extends over 118,000 hectares in the southernmost […]
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 […]
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