Bhutan, December 2024
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!…
Category Archives: Sightseeing
Kyūshū, October 2024
A family road trip on the most southwestern of the main Japanese Islands, the warm and friendly Kyūshū.
Taipei, October 2024
A few busy days during a rainy stop-over in the capital city of Taiwan.
Kōya-san, November 2023
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.
Kyōto, November 2023
Spending a momijigari week in Kyōto. Nothing more and nothing less.
Hurtigruten, October 2022
The classical Norwegian postal ship route from Bergen up north along the coast and back.
Fjord Norway, September-October 2022
Before embarking one of the Hurtigruten ships we spent a week in a typically Norwegian house by one of the furthest branches of the Sognefjorden by Marifjøra, making trips around the area.
Vestfirðir, August 2020
In the second half of our trip to Iceland in 2020 we went to the majestic Vestfirðir, the Westfjords, where we enjoyed an exceptionally stable fair weather.
Snæfellsnes, August 2020
We spent three nights in Hellnar on the Snæfellsness peninsula in the western Iceland and made a few trips around: views, waterfalls, beaches, churches, cemeteries, cafés…
Kaldidalur, August 2020
After a day in Fjallabak, we drove from the Þjórsá river valley to the Snæfellsnes peninsula via the majestic Kaldidalur route between the huge Langjökull glacier and the Ok mountain (its glacier had already melted…), visiting on the way three fine waterfalls.
Fjallabak, August 2020
At the very beginning of our road trip to Iceland in the strange year of 2020, we have made a short side trip we have always wanted to do since 1990. Landmannalaugar, in the Iceland’s Fjallabak, the land behind the mountains.
Mauritius, December 2019
A short spontaneous family Christmas trip to Mauritius, the neighbour island to La Réunion in the Indian Ocean.