The indigenous Eperara Siapidara people, with only 3800 members left, live on the Colombian Pacific coast. This is home to the golden poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis) – one of the most poisonous animals in the world. The poison of this […]
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The Chimborazo is the highest mountain of Ecuador. It is considered easy to climb. Even beginners dare the ascent through ice and falling rocks. According to our guide, only two in ten make it to the top though. I did not.
Without the Brazilian and Peruvian rubber, the automobile could not have conquered the world in the first decades of the 20th century. On assignment for the German cooperation agency GIZ, I spent a week in the Peruvian amazonas following indigenous people who are rediscovering the knowledge of their forefathers about the rubber tree.
I spent Christmas and New Years eve with friends at the Golfo de Tribugá, close to Nuquí. This is where Colombia comes closest to its African roots. My (photographic) reportage in RONDO, the travel magazine published by Der Standard. Read […]
The Cuidad Perdida is Colombia´s Machu Picchu. I did the trail.
