hike – Pieces of Infinity

20.01.2019//19.01//now

Posted on 2020/01/20 by Maja Li

When I went for that hike, I walked through a dark, grey landscape, not able to see anything bc of all the fog. I had no idea that already after a few kilometers walking up the mountains, there wouldn’t be any more fog….and so I ended up on a sunny mountain top above the clouds. Well…I had to head back to the cloudy landscape afterwards…but now I know, that there’s sun above the clouds – and I know how to get there. It doesn’t mean, I’ll always be able to reach the sunny mountain top..neither it means, all my problems are solved, when I’m up there…but it’s so important to know that there’s so much more than what we see in our daily routine, what we call “normal” in western society, that we sometimes just don’t know how beautiful and crazy life can be, as long as we’re not leaving our home and start to follow unknown paths, facing challenges and experiencing adventures, loosing the path sometimes…but finally arriving at the sunny top of the mountain…and as we look down, our life back then seems so small and unimportant, so boring and without any adventures, without any possibilities to reach something or to loose something, it seems like we’ve not been alive at all before. Right now I’m back home, and enjoying the safety of having a job and studying, of having a place to live and of having the same people around me each day…but missing that sunny mountain top badly…and actually I’m not sure, if I can keep going like this, living in this capitalist system, as if everything in the world was fine, or if I have to leave once again, to return to the sunny mountain top – and this time forever.

Fullmoon

Posted on 2020/01/10 by Maja Li

That fullmoon I captured weeks ago in the city where I study…Together with the pumpkin field in the front and the houses in the back, it was a magical view, short before darkness.

Camping in the woods

Posted on 2020/01/06 by Maja Li

My lovely dog and me, camping in the forest at the 1th of August last summer. It’s a place near my home, deep in the woods and with a small stone circle to make a campfire, only reached by very few hikers. Also these days, in winter, I’m hiking up there often and planning to camp there again, but also to go on more and longer backpack-tours in nature this year, maybe also in other countries…

Kasol, and why I went another time to India

Posted on 2019/12/26 - 2020/01/02 by Maja Li

A lovely street dog and me, in Kasol, India, few weeks ago.
Sometimes I still wonder, how I ended up spending 4 months in India…as I had planned only two months, feb and march, mostly to do a yoga teacher course…India itself didn’t interest me that much, back then.
But from the first day on, it completly overwhelmed me with all the places full of beautiful, pure, chaotic life.
I still remember how thick the tropical air was when I left the airport, and this strange, different smell, the sounds of this – for me – new piece of earth…
I guess this was when I realized, that it would be damn different than my journeys before.
And so it was.
I travelled around, together with a lovely friend from home, explored, learned and mostly learned how less I knew because I were always staying in safe, clean and grey europe.
And I learned, that all my expectations how the people would be here were clearly influenced by stupid german media, western media.
So, forget all the western stories about this country and go and explore by yourself!;)
About how I came back to India…
I couldn’t get enough in these two months, feb and march, I couldn’t get enough of the nature, the mountains, the jungle, the sea, the fruitshops, the markets and rikscharides, the sunsets and coconuts, yogalessons and meetings with other travellers, culture and food, and all these people living here, and especially one of them, so that’s why I am here again.

Penacova – Way to the people in the mountains

Posted on 2018/11/08 - 2020/01/02 by Maja Li

Last days were kinda hard; we went away from every ‘safe’ space, away from our friends in Vila Nova de Cerveira, away from Coimbra, away from all bigger cities, completly abroad, sleeping in our tents or in abandoned houses, only hitchhiking or walking, and even if the usually short way took us almost a week, it was worth every second of it…and I realised that I really don’t need much more than little bit of good food, water and something to keep me warm now in autumn, and some lovely people around me, everything else isn’t necessary to be happy.
The picture was taken on the roof of an abandoned hotel where we slept and shows the valley of Penacova, a magical small city placed on and between some mountains, separated into two parts by a huge river flowing through….

Vila Nova de Cerveira

Posted on 2018/10/30 - 2020/01/02 by Maja Li

Yesterday noon in Vila Nova de Cerveira, hiking up to the “Cervo”, and finally felt that autumn arrived…