The picture reminds me of fairytales, old, untold secrets, but also of warm summernights next to the ocean under a nightblue sky….actually I took it around 5 o’clock in the morning in Coimbra while we where looking for a place to keep warm until the car rental company would open their doors. But it really feels like a fairytale, to be here in Portugal again, to come back to places which are connected with crazy adventures, which are connected with my journey in autumn 2018…even nothing is the same this time; I’m not on a journey to explore everything new, I’m here with my dad, who’s checking out the last things so my parents can move to Portugal in summer, to the place we all fell in love with. It’s a place full of fairytales and magic, full of strong living-beings with crazy stories, it’s a place in the mountains near the sky, it’s valleys full of fruits and burned trees, it’s coffee in the middle of the village in the morning, it’s the sound of drums, guitars and singing people sitting around the bonfire, it’s the feeling of connected souls, connected, as all of us here escaped the system.
Tag: mountains
13.01.2019//11.22//now
Everything is possible, nothing is sure.
The last week was full of new things, learning and trying, and new situations which made me feel like a first class student again, knowing nothing yet. But I’ll keep learning and trying…and then I’ll decide if I keep going like now or if I quit. So nothing is sure; 2020 definitely will be a year full of changes…However, there are a few things helping me through such days…one of them is hiking. The picture I took at the “Belchen”, a mountain near my home in the Black Forest, where I hiked with a friend yesterday.
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Camping in the woods
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…
About Kasol
Kasol is a small hippiesque village in Himachal Pradesh (Northern India), placed next to a river and surrounded by mountains, forest, and rocks. It’s full of small jewellery shops, restaurants and cafés and attracting hundreds of Hippies from all around the world each day; it’s a beautiful, multicultural place and great to meet up with other backpackers. There used to be many outdoor parties in the forest around but due to some incidents there are no more parties; nowadays Kasol is famous for it’s nature and as a starting point for trekking tours, which can be quite adventurous. Definitely adventurous is the journey to Kasol; from the next bigger village it takes around 1,5 hours in an usually crowded, old bus, on a small, wavy and curvy road (the only!) next to a highslope and a hundred of meters deep valley.
In the mountains
This is me, probably as happy as almost never before, holding the baby dog of a friend I stayed with in the mountains. I definitely will return to that place in Portugal, as I had an unbelievable amazing time there with so lovely people,…but also crazy experiences which made me think a lot and changed my point of view on life…So I’ll write a bigger post about that place and the people there on my other blog as soon as I have enough time…
Pushkar
That picture I took while we drove back after exploring some villages around Pushkar (Rajasthan). There were no other tourists at all, and I really felt like on a different planet, being stared at by the few people who were outside even it was around 40°C in the shadow. However, the landscape out there’s amazing, desert-like, but still some plants, very few lakes, grass, and endless roads,just sometimes getting crossed by goats and cows.
Coimbra – Way to the people in the mountains
Everything got even more crazy, completly crazy and exciting…the plans I had didn’t work out at all, but finally I got where I needed to go…and did what I needed to do…and found beauty in places I never searched for it…However, first stop was Coimbra, a magic city in Portugal, full of lovely young people, placed next to a huge river, surrounded by some hills…
Vila Nova de Cerveira
Yesterday noon in Vila Nova de Cerveira, hiking up to the “Cervo”, and finally felt that autumn arrived…
Matavenero
My first stop while my journey, spent there almost three weeks, instead of the planned one week…missing those days, felt like another world, living in the mountains, surrounded by wonderful humans, waking up with the sun, Yoga, coffee, never ending deep talks….I’ll return someday, for sure. Thanks to everyone over there who made those days so magical!