A long trek in the north-eastern corner of the Nepal Himalaya. It was difficult, not only due to the damages made to the trail by the heavy monsoon weather in the summer of 2025 and unexpected intense snowfall at the end of October of this year, but also because of difficult decisions to be made […]
A five night long fam trip to western Bhutan via Kathmandu, organised by Diamir, exceeded all expectations concerning the seemingly hard-to-reach Himalayan Kingdom. Taking it simply: a dream come true!…
A family road trip on the most southwestern of the main Japanese Islands, the warm and friendly Kyūshū.
A few busy days during a rainy stop-over in the capital city of Taiwan.
Three nights in the holy mountain site of Kōya-san 高野山 — Buddhist temples, monasteries, and an important mausoleum with a surrounding centuries-old cemetery in deep Japanese cedar woods of the Wakayama prefecture just south of Ōsaka and Kyōto.
Spending a momijigari week in Kyōto. Nothing more and nothing less.
Although haunted by bad luck, we made a short but beautiful trek in the Fann Mountains of Tajikistan, August 2018
Our trip to Armenia was abruptly ended by a car accident, luckily nobody got hurt. Anyaway, before the accident which forced us to leave Armenia, we managed to visit seven historically and artistically important monasteries of northern Armenia. July 2017.
A trek from Tusheti to Khevruseti — or from Omalo to Shatili via Atsunta pass — in the Georgian Caucasus. July 2017.
A week in the Holy Land, with the highlight of Jerusalem, a holy place for all three Abrahamitic religions. March 2016.
Тескей Ала-Тоо, 天山 , which is Teskey Ala-Too, Tien Shan. A trek over quite a few high passes, based from Karakol on the shores of Issyk Köl Lake, Kyrgyzstan. August-September 2014.
A reprise of our trek to Solo Khumbu, but this time in the onset of the Himalayan winter. Walking from lodge to lodge, carefully maintaining dining room ovens, with Christmas by the feet of the Everest. Returning taking a high route via Cho La and Gokyo. December 2013.