detour

INTRO

If I'd try to write ..

Certainly not the end of The journey…

From the 01.January 2009 until 01.July 2009

(11.July 2009)

AUSTRALIA
INDONESIA
MALAYSIA
THAILAND
MYANMAR
LAOS
CAMBODIA
VIETNAM
CHINA
SOUTH KOREA
JAPAN
RUSSIA
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
POLAND
GERMANY

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RUSSIA

VLADIVOSTOK

Port and train station of Vladivosok the very last one of the transsibirian railway.

Lenin is full of shit...

Go Russia!

JAPAN

TOKYO

Very fancy apartments in Tokyo city!

From Tokyo i traveled by bus to the west coast to catch the ferry to Vladivostok...

Toyama

I found a skateboard in Tokyo and broad it to Berlin!

The Ms Rus the only boat that connects Japan and Russia...

South Korea

Kim Chi Korea's must eat and most traditional food.

Seoul is a nice busy city surrounded by mountains great setting!

CHINA

My brother Denis and me... Market scenes in Yangshuo

The old China.

VIETNAM

Ho Chi Minh City

I’ve got a motorbike therefore I am!

Like pretty much everywhere in Asia a giant "cable salad"Vegetarian cuisine at it's best in Vietnam they trying hard to make it look like meat - success.

Ha Noi

Ho Chi Minh mausoleum
National flag of Vietnam - where can't you see them?
The tiny allies of old town noisy bustling chaotic.An ocean of motorbikes...
Maggots for breakfast - yummy!One of many street stalls.

CAMBODIA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia

I visited Cambodia only very briefly not even for two weeks. I just went into it's capital and the ancient temples of Anchor.

Crossing a land border with Laos cutting through, from the north first to Phnom Phen and then to Siem Reap.

North Cambodia - port in Stoeng Treng.

Phnom Phen's really nice lake - a good place to stay.

The Temples of Anchor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat

The temples of Anchor are hard to comprehend and onces you there you feel like you have to learn a lot and to come back one day. To witness not just the beauty of this place today but the omnipresence of the remains of a lost empire and grand culture and their evidence is just astonishing!

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The Buddha - Siddartha Gautama.

Overgrown by jungle the very many ancient temples of Anchor.

Incredible stone carvings in the main temple Anchor.
It is still a place of worship unfortunately through restrictions by the government only marginal.

LAOS

Mekong River

THAILAND





MYANMAR

Around Mandalay





Monks study Pali Sanskrit in Mandalay.





Bagan, around 4000 temples, stupas and pagodas in all directions...
Point your finger on a random spot you'll always hit on one of them.



Inle Lake local market



Inle Lake



Schwedagon Pagoda in Yangon



THAILAND

Transfer stop for two nights to meet Maya and to catch the plane to Myanmar.


MALAYSIA

Certainly not the best reputation for Malaysia but reality and therefore true.
A shocking inside!
The National Art Gallery of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur with it's temporary exhibition called Palestine.




INDONESIA

>...So I left Australia after 51 weeks and exactly two years after I started this trip and arrived in Bali on this tropical harmonic island.
In Adelaide's airport I met the probably coolest Australian in the entire year, how ironic.
We flew together to Bali and spend the first two days in Kuta which I personally think is nothing but a shit hole.
Despite the fact that one can really easily forget about the rest of the world there though because of the quiet affordable luxury which is very tempting to let your self fall for.
After two nights in Kuta I went to Lombok, aiming the Gili Islands to get my advanced dive ticket done.

LOMBOK and GILI ISLANDS










In Lombok on the way to Gili I met Marty and Janette from Canada.
We traveled the Gilis, Bali and Kuala Lumpur together.
After The Gilis I went back to Bali to a wonderful place in central Bali
called Ubud.

BALI





KECAK DANCE





THE MOTHER TEMPLE






HOLY SPRING TEMPLE - HOLY BATH










I left this highly spiritual place quiet impressed and changed
to Java...

JAVA



GUNUNG BROMO



YOGYAKARTA AND AROUND



PRAMBANAN - ANCIENT HINDU TEMPLE SITE




BOROBUDUR - ANCIENT BUDDHIST TEMPLE




JAKARTA - CAPITAL INDONESIA









Terima Kasih dan sampai jumpa...

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA

I spend an entire year in Australia. I could say I have lived here.

I bought a car, I had two bank accounts, a tax file number and all kinds of stuff.

I enjoyed this life not all the time but most of the time even though I had to work hard sometimes.

I enjoyed the nature the vastness the beauty the emptiness the felt infinity of the country. I liked very much living in a car a home on wheels something to hide away in if you want - total independency!

When I parked my car on the countless beautiful remote spots in Australia with a stunning view I was many time incredible happy.

Life has so much to offer so much to give.

On my trip I came across many people and places and saw Australian way of life.

It indeed is easy going just as it is famous for Australians are taking life easy

a way of life where there seem to be no place for worries! Mate!

That is the biggest lesson Australia has taught me. No worries, no worries!

It’s hard to keep up with that though.

Australia has a deep spot in my heart now and forever and I certainly want to go back someday. It’s amazing nature lifestyle and remoteness makes it a tempting place to go to though I always felt this big lack of culture there which bothered me a lot.

I guess that is manly what makes it imperfect to me and is not considered as a place for ever to live in for me.

Anyways Australia is a country with not many problems great prosperity and many well paid jobs. Australians work hard and they work a lot but they earn good too.

Australia is a country and continent pretty much off the news it is not much recognized. That naturally reflects on Australians, they don’t care so much about a lot of stuff which makes some a little simple and happier and more nature bound - they love fishing.

On the down site - I came a cross quite a lot of racism, because even though all these really great facts about Australia, it also has its dark past that influences it’s present.

The indigenous Australians so many of them find them self in rather miserable situation: poverty, addiction, violence, crime many are caught between two worlds their own traditional one and our godless modern world – nothing works.

Australia has two societies in one land with very few points of contact.

Australia was good for me for many reasons, one of them was the work I’ve done and the money I earned for traveling.

The cooler jobs were the construction of a giant tent for a broken passenger aircraft,

The 9 days on a 35m pearl boat with many whales sightings and

The work and traveling with a carnival!

The very and the last month in Sydney including Christmas and New Year couldn’t’ have been any better!!!

I am a big fan of this very pretty city of Sydney.

Australia – good on ya!!!