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  • Do you like individual travels with a rucksack to remote, exotic countries, where YOU and not a travel agency decide what to see?

  • Do you think that travelling improves your understanding of life and is an important part of your self-knowledge?

  • Do you like trekking in mountains?

  • Do you like everyday life even if the exciting things are not happening every day?

  • Do you find science of nature (especially astronomy) very interesting?

  • Are you amazed and excited at the potential of the internet?

  • Do you sometimes keep sitting at your desk half of the night at your computer, caught in the middle of your own universe?

  • If your answer is NO to more than half of these questions, well, thank's for your visit, but maybe you should push the "BACK" - button and go somewhere else in the Cyberspace. However, if you agree in most of the statements, please keep the connection and visit some of my sub-menues below.


    Just before sunset in front of Ratong Peak (6.678 meters) near Kanchenjunga in eastern Nepal.
    Read more about this in my article below.




    And right now, you have the following choice in English:


    News:

  • Check out my new slideshow from my overland trip along The Hippie Trail from Copenhagen Central Station to Kathmandu in spring, 1969

  • Check out my new slideshow from my overland trip between Beijing and Delhi in autumn 2009

  • Movie from National Geographic about the Indian railways and their history


  • Travel articles:

  • Landscapes of Cuba. In search of the soul of Cuba through photos and descriptions in 2010.

  • Kathmandu, October 2009 - a snapshot from the capital of Nepal

  • A tribute to the Indian railways!

  • Landscapes of Bulgaria, especially for nature lovers. Photos from a trek in the Rila/Pirin mountains in June, 2007 + from Plovdiv

  • Lake Baikal - the big freshwater sea in the heart of Central Asia

  • In search of Bali. Some good and alternative tips for first time visitors to Indonesia's most popular destination

  • The Hippie Trail - the Road to Paradise

  • Travelling and trekking in Australia and Indonesia

  • Sunrise on Java Island. Trekking to the top of Mount Bromo, one of Indonesia's most active vulcanoes

  • Nepal revisited. Trekking to the base camp of Kanchenjunga,
    the world's third highest mountain

  • Trekking, rafting and Elephant-riding in Thailand. Travelling as a backpacker
    with my 12-year-old daughter

  • Amazing Bangkok! A short, but enthusiastic description of the capital of Thailand

  • Trekking on Madeira Island. A marvellous place for trekkers and nature lovers

  • Ruwenzori - Trekking back to the age of the dinosaurs


  • Photo galleries:

  • Photo gallery. Selected photos, especially from my numerous travels


  • Others:

  • Wise words written about the psychology of travelling

  • Danish version of my home page





  • On my way to China with the Trans-Siberian and the Trans-Mongolean Railway from Moscow to Beijing
    during the autumn 2006.



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    This page is edited by Erik Pontoppidan, Copenhagen, Denmark.