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Photo of the Week: Indian Girl at the Train Station

24 May 2011

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Pictures like this one is why I love looking out the window for hours on end when I ride the train in India. It is just such an eye-opener how life is unfolding in the rural parts of India…a world that is far away from our daily western reality. Here, the little girl is waiting […]

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Photo of the Week: Making Indian Saris from Scratch

22 May 2011

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Staying on a $25 a day budget is easy when you can buy new clothes directly from the manufacturer. In this case you could actually watch the guy making the Saris all day long. In case you wonder, the prices for a beautiful sari started at $8. Pretty cool present with a good story, don’t […]

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Photo of the Week: Sunrise at the Ganges in India

20 May 2011

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I took a paddle boat out onto the Ganges to watch the sunrise when this dad and son duo paddled by us and offered their little tourist trinkets. It was just after 5AM when I took this picture, so no wonder the little boy is almost asleep. Gee, I was in a gaze all morning […]

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Photo of the Week: Western Wall and Dome of the Rock

17 May 2011

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Two of the holiest places in the same picture: The Western Wall for the Jews and the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount for the Muslims. Only in a city like Jerusalem would you find such important places so close together.

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Photo of the Week: Her Holiness Waiting at the Beauty Parlor

15 May 2011

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I have no idea why this holy cow was waiting outside the Beauty Parlor every single day I was in Varanassi, India. Doesn’t she know that she’s pretty enough already? What do you think?

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Photo of the Week: Morning Blues at the best Wave in the World

10 May 2011

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This is what I found before sunrise in Jeffreys Bay: Firing waves at the Supertubes section of the best wave in the world. I was tired as hell after an overnight bus ride from Cape Town, my twisted ankle was hurting and I almost fell asleep while taking this picture. Which made my first wave […]

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Photo of the Week: Burning Sky in Germany

7 May 2011

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Who says the best sunsets are always at the Ocean? I took this picture in South Germany and couldn’t believe how red the sky was. What do you think, pretty good for a German sunset, right?

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Photo of the Week: African Donkey Riders

5 May 2011

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I was relaxing at one of my favorite spots in the world, the point overlooking the Ocean at Mdumbi in the Transkei in South Africa, when two little boys came riding by on their donkeys. From what I understood it’s what they do every evening for fun…chase their donkeys up and down the rolling green […]

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Photo of the Week: Crazy German Witches

28 April 2011

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The Carnival in Germany is one crazy party, with amazing parades and even better costumes. The so called 5th Season (the party season that is!) starts at the 11th of November (11.11. is a Schnapps-Number in Germany meaning you are supposed to drink up) and slowly gaining momentum until the grand one-week long non-stop party […]

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Photo of the Week: Perfect Waves in Morocco

24 April 2011

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The waves in Morocco are world class and uncrowded.Well, uncrowded it usually is if there isn’t a local contest going on and all the guys who got kicked out of the contest decide to give the spot you choose to surf a go as well. But hey, what’s better than sharing a few waves with […]

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