Journey

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.

Wasabi as far as the eye can see. Nordic Wasabi's ultra-modern greenhouse is heated with geothermal energy. Irrigation and lighting are controlled fully automatically / © Photo: Georg Berg

Iceland, where wasabi grows

Wasabi is a demanding plant. Two Icelandic engineers boldly choose the Japanese pungent ingredient to create Iceland’s first export vegetable

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Calls of "Vive Sainte Sara" ring out thousands of times during the procession through town to the beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (France) in 1978 / © Photo: Georg Berg

Flamenco in Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

Every year in May it gets crowded in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Roma families make a pilgrimage to Black Sara. Flamenco of the Camargue Gitanos resounds in the narrow streets

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The green Muggio Valley in Ticino. A Swiss cultural landscape like in a fairy tale / © Photo: Georg Berg

The green Muggio Valley in Ticino

The sparsely populated Valle di Muggio above Lake Lugano is the southernmost valley in Ticino. Chestnut forest alternates with dry meadows and orchards

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Sion with the castles Valère and Tourbillon surrounded by vineyards / © Photo: Georg Berg

Sion: city – country – wine

Valais is the largest wine-growing region in Switzerland. Whether on a city tour, an e-bike tour or hiking tours, Valais wine is always a big topic

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Village street of Waldeck in the Upper Palatinate / © Photo: Georg Berg

Waldeck in the Upper Palatinate

Once Waldeck was situated between Franconia and Bohemia on a trade route, which today is a hiking and biking route. A vacation resort with nature experiences for city dwellers

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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

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Flag of Bougainville / © Photo: Georg Berg

Bougainville: Emergence of a Nation

The flag is something to remember. In the 2019 referendum, 98 per cent of the Pacific island voted for independence from Papua New Guinea – but Port Moresby is hesitating.

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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.

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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

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Basel City Hall / © Photo: Georg Berg

Basel on the Rhine

The Swiss border and trading city of Basel is home to Switzerland’s oldest university, 46 museums and has served as a refuge for many a maverick thinker

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Children of Panasia Island love the rocks of a cave as a natural diving tower / © Photo: Georg Berg

Meeting in Papua New Guinea

The island nation of Papua New Guinea is considered the country with the greatest cultural diversity in the world. About Polynesian deep-sea sailors and traces of cannibalism

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The museum of the sacred Mount Fuji in Kakegawa, Japan. The virtual ascent of Japan's highest mountain is possible all year round at the Mount Fuji Heritage Centre / © Photo: Georg Berg

Fujinomiya, city at the foot of Mount Fuji

Sake, Soba, Satoyama. Three typical Japanese terms can be associated with the visit to Fujinomiya, the city closest to the sacred Mount Fuji.

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