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Travel

Encounters with people and the discovery of regional peculiarities are the focus of our travels. Research often leads us to a second level in the story, providing historical, scientific, social or political insights. If you are just looking for information on a particular destination, you should definitely enter via the countries page. Then everything we have ever written about a country is presented, no matter how absurd, such as the Icelandic leader sheep or the eating habits in the Japanese Kabuki theater.

The Cresta Palace is a luxury hotel in Celerina, Grisons, Switzerland / © Photo: Georg Berg

Cresta Palace Hotel in Celerina

Celerina, the place where the Cresta Palace Hotel is located, is not far from Sankt Moritz, but is known as an independent place only in Switzerland

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The Hotel Lenkerhof is located in the middle of park-like grounds on the outskirts of Lenk. 80 rooms have a south-facing balcony / © Photo: Georg Berg

Healing luxury hotel Lenkerhof

Lenk is an insider tip because the place is remote and almost only known in Switzerland. When the road ends you reach the village and the hiking paradise Lenk

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In the rainy season only accessible by air: The outback behind Darwin is crisscrossed by many watercourses. Bridges are scarce / © Photo: Georg Berg

Australia’s Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is almost four times the size of Germany, but has only 250,000 inhabitants. In the tropical climate there is only rainy season and dry season here

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Country house in Tuscany landscape with blooming rape field / © Photo: Georg Berg

Tuscan scenery in Val d’Orcia

The Val D’Orcia is located in Tuscany and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004. Popular are the thermal pools of Bagno Vignoni already known to the Etruscans

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Using the full-size model, a scientist familiarizes the group of lay scientists with the activities they have to perform themselves on a living sea turtle in the dark of night / © Photo: Georg Berg

Expedition to giant leatherback turtles

Biosphere Expeditions’ citizen science project researches endangered leatherback sea turtles in Costa Rica. Active vacation and species conservation project.

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Hotel Blow-up Hall 5050 is located in the building of the old Stary Brewery in Poznan / © Photo: Georg Berg

Art and luxury in Poland

The most extraordinary hotel in Poland “Blow Up Hall 5050” can be found in Poznan. It is an interactive work of art with a bar and an excellent restaurant

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The Celtic bath at the Ferme du Vent in Brittany / © Photo: Georg Berg

La Ferme du Vent in Brittany

Beautiful cottages in a former farmstead give city dwellers new energy away from meetings, business meals and mobile permanent availability

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The green hilly landscape of the Upper Palatinate and in the middle of it in the morning mist lies Wernberg Castle / © Photo: Georg Berg

The Upper Palatinate and its Zoigl culture

If there is anything regionally typical besides the lush green hilly landscape of the Upper Palatinate, it is the Zoigl. Thomas Kellermann, top chef at Burg Wernberg near Weiden, strongly recommended a visit to a Zoigl pub during our stay at the now-closed Hotel Burg Wernberg. At the time, he had been living in the Upper Palatinate for ten years and often visited the Zoigl himself, occasionally dreaming of having … [mehr]

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The center of attraction in the evening: the Pudelbar. At least as noteworthy as the poodle is the bar's cladding. It consists of the rusted sheet metal of an old barn, which Rainer Holzhauer discovered on horseback during a ride / © Photo: Georg Berg

Renthof in Kassel – history and zeitgeist

In June 2017, the Renthof Kassel opens as a hotel, restaurant and event location. Throughout the house there are finds that have appeared during renovation

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Aerial view of the Endsleigh Hotel / © Photo: Georg Berg

Luxury and country life at Hotel Endsleigh

Endsleigh is a listed property in the county of Devon on the Dartmoor nature reserve. In 2004 it was established as a hotel by Olga Polizzi

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Endsleigh Hotel Garden in West Devon, England / © Photo: Georg Berg

Hotel Endsleigh in the fairy tale forest of Devon

Endsleigh lies on the edge of what is now the Dartmoor Nature Reserve and is nestled in rolling countryside on the Tamar, England’s best river for fishing

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Women cross Freetown's old railroad bridge, the Tengbeh Bridge, carrying goods on their heads / © Photo: Georg Berg

Destination Sierra Leone

After eleven years of civil war and the subsequent Ebola epidemic, the West African country wants to become attractive for international tourists again

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