Narrow streets and the city hall of Basel / © Photo: Georg Berg

Food tour in Basel

Basel offers a self-guided food tour. Under your own direction, you can reach restaurants with special concepts and get a lot for 29 Swiss francs.

Fishing port in Marsaxlokk, in the southeast of Malta. There are ports large and imposing like that of the capital Valetta, but small fishing ports characterize the varied coast of Malta and Gozo / © Photo: Georg Berg

The small islands of Malta and Gozo

Malta and the neighboring island of Gozo offer a lot in a small area. Greeks called Malta the navel of the sea. Knights of St. John built it into a strong fortress

The Silk Road in Tajikistan / © Photo: Georg Berg

Pamir stage of the Silk Road

Silk gave it its name. Many things were traded on the Silk Road. The Chinese offered silk to the Kyrgyz in exchange for good horses.

In the jungle of Bougainville still lie the wreckage of the Mitsubishi G4M aircraft in which General Yamamoto Isoroto was shot down on April 18, 1942 / © Photo: Georg Berg

Airplane wreckage deep in the jungle

In the jungle of the Pacific island of Bougainville lies the wreckage of the plane of the Japanese General Yamamoto, who was responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor

Saffron harvest in Switzerland / © Photo: Georg Berg

Saffron, spice and remedy

Saffron gives an incomparable aroma. It would be too bad and too expensive to use saffron only as a coloring agent. About the cultivation in Valais and Morocco.

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