Philippines – Manila
Philippines - Manila On the main island of Luzon, Manila is the political and economic hub of the Philippines. Manila is a magnet for residents from all over the country. Manila is loved and cursed, Sündenpfuhl and Moloch, provided with slums and ven [...]
Philippines – Luzon
Philippines - Luzon Like a fragmented bridge, the islands of the Philippines lie between Taiwan in the north and Indonesia in the south. Volcanoes, shifts of the earth plates with consequent elevations and subsidence and melting glacial glaciers have [...]
Philippines – Bontoc
Philippines - Bontoc The image of the Philippines is shaped by the geographical and climatic conditions. On one side there are beach idylls on palm-fringed islands, on the other side majestic mountains up to almost 3000 m ("Mont Apo"), colorful iride [...]
Philippines – Jeepney
Philippines - Jeepney A special feature in the cities are the Jeepney's. The jeepney was once a jeep serving the American forces. He was saved from scrapping by the Filipinos and provided with wildly romantic pictures. Now Jeepney's are the cheapest [...]
Philippines – People
Philippines - People The Filipinos are friendly and helpful and always ready to smile. We captured some moments in the lives of these people with our camera. On the way we see an Ifugao hunter from the northern Luzon area of the Philippines. In a [...]
Philippines – rice terraces
Philippines - rice terraces In the high mountain regions, the world famous rice terraces can be found on the mountain slopes in the north of Luzon. After a dizzying journey through the spa town of Baguio, the commercial town of Bontoc is reached. Ric [...]
Maldives – Diving
Maldives - Diving The Maldives are located in the Indian Ocean and consist of 1090 individual palm islands, which move from north to south on a 900 km long atoll chain. The islands are located about 500 km south of Sri Lanka and India. Individual isl [...]
Maledives – Meerufenfushi
Maledives - Meerufenfushi After the first dive on the Maldives, we now have time to spend a lot of time on the island exploring what has changed in the last few years. The island is one of the larger of its kind. However, there are no cars or other m [...]
Singapore City
Singapore The Southeast Asian island state off the southern tip of the Malacca peninsula consists of the island of Singapore (573 km²) and about fifty smaller islands with a total area of 45 km². However, these areas increase from year to year, as [...]
Singapore – China Town
Singapore - China Town The "Lion City" on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, just one degree north of the equator, has always been a melting pot of peoples. Even today, there are traces of Chinese, Malay, Indian and British cultures in Singapor [...]