It is now approximately 3 months that I am back from Peru and I cannot even count ahow many times I´ve been asked: “So, how did you like Peru?”. Located within 3 different landscapes the country is 3,598351476056086 times bigger than Germany. According to Wikipedia and my calculator. It not only inhabits the spring of the Amazonas,…
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FairMail
Ich bin jetzt seit knapp drei Monaten wieder aus Peru zurück und kann schon gar nicht mehr zählen, wie oft mir die Frage: „Und, wie war Peru?“ gestellt wurde. Dabei fällt mir dann immer wieder auf, wie wenig ich eigentlich von den typischen Reisezielen gesehen habe, von denen Peru Unmengen zu bieten hat. In 3…
Travelphorography – soccer with the Fairmail team
In Peru I worked with Fairmail. A small organization helping kids to earn money with photography. One day we organized a fun little soccer game with another NGO called Mundo de ninos. A lot of the teenagers in Fairmail are recruited from Mundo de ninos. This day has helped to bring the kids of both…
Travelling with Cystic Fibrosis
I hate it. I hate talking about my medical condition. On the one hand I do not enjoy satisfying people´s curiosity and on the other hand, which is the bigger part, I do not wish to give this sickness any room. I refuse to let it determine my every day live, I refuse to let…
London, Rickman and broken glasses
In the year 2002 I took a quite rickety overland bus drive to London, just to see Alan Rickman in the award-winning British production of Noel Coward’s play „Private Lives“. Having just developed a huge crush on the actor after seeing him in „Sense and Sensibility“, nothing was going to stop me from this live experience….
What to do in Huanchaco
Today it´s been one month that I am living in Huanchaco and once again I am sitting at my favorite place, famous little Chocolate Café. When arriving here on the 28th of February from chaotic, noisy Lima, this quiet little surfer town felt like a huge relieve. The sound of the ocean, the wind blowing…
Peruvian bus rides
Today, for the first time, I have used one of these battered, little VW busses for a drive between Huanchaco and Trujillo and first of all I would like to take the opportunity here to very briefly describe this experience as the following: What. The. Actual. Fuck. These busses are literally the live equivalent to…
Alternative Peru – english version
Lima grows and grows and grows and probably „rampant growth“ would be a much more exact choice of words. According to the German Department of Foreign Affairs the average yearly growth of population is around 1.13 percent. Within the last 50 years the population of the inner city octuplicated and two-thirds of the overall population…
Eine Busfahrt die ist lustig…
Heute habe ich das erste Mal einen dieser kleinen rumpeligen VW-Busse für eine Fahrt zwischen Huanchaco und Trujillo genutzt und möchte zunächst die Gelegenheit nutzen, um diese Erfahrung wie folgt zusammen fassen: Oh. Mein. Gott. Diese Busse sind quasi das reale Äquivalent zu der Zirkusnummer „Wieviel Clowns passen in ein Auto“. Im Internet findet man…
Cats, Wifi and Ceviche
While on worldatlas.com Lima is #27 in “Populations Of World’s 100 Largest Cities” with roughly 9 million inhabitants, enchantedlearning.com has a “Table of the Biggest Capital Cities” listing the it as #10 with approximately 7 million citizens. As various as information on Lima is in the world wide web, as various is its appearance in…
Alternative Peru
Lima wächst und wächst und wächst und vermutlich ist „wuchert“ die passendere Wortwahl. Laut auswärtigem Amt liegt das durchschnittliche jährliche Bevölkerungswachstum bei ca. 1,13% Prozent, innerhalb der letzten 50 Jahre hat sich Bevölkerung der Kernstadt verachtfacht und etwa 2/3 der Gesamtbevölkerung des Verwaltungsgebietes Lima leben in den sogenannten Elendsvierteln, den „Pueblos Jovenes“. Ein großer Teil…
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