t r a v e l s
If you travel far enough you will finally find yourself.
- shakespeare -
we all come from africa. in 2005 I started in germany to cycle “back home” – to africa. in two years I cycled from Leipzig in Germany to Capetown in South-Africa.
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one could name ethiopia the place where it all began. here our ancestors supposedly learned the upright walk. 3.2 million years later ethiopia still has a rough charme.
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what a thrilling imagination: the forest described in the “lord of the rings” isn’t just fiction. the forest exists, here – in north eastern corner of the DR Congo .
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congolese people say: there is africa. and then there is the congo. it is something unique. nowhere else could that be more true than at the banks of the river congo.
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one say: either you love the desert or you hate it. there is nothing between, no shades of grey. join me on a small walk through this majestic landscape.
