One of my picture sorting tasks consists in assembling – using software – various “special scenes”, which I’ve been shooting during my round-the-world trip. Fiddling with “High Definition Range” (HDR) photographs and panorama shots is a good past time...

    “It was in July, 1911, that we first entered that marvelous canyon of the Urubamba, where the river escapes from the cold regions near Cuzco by tearing its way through gigantic mountains of granite. From Torontoy to Colpani the road runs through a land of matchless charm....

Cusco is the tourist capital of Peru. This city boasts with tour groups, hawkers, nice restaurants, cafes, hotels – and: splendid sights in and around town. Although prices are obviously more expensive than in the rest of Peru, it is still possible to maintain a budget. I splurged a bit...

  “Puno is a hole.” This is the answer I’ve got by a weird traveler when I asked him the smalltalk question “Have you been in Puno?”. Honestly, I did hope to get some information about this town situated at Lake Titicaca – or at least get into a casual...

La Paz is Bolivia’s administrative capital city. Don’t overlook the word “administrative”, as this country is one of the few one’s being able to finance two capitals (the other being Sucre). There is one major road leading into the center of town, which is located...

The constitutional and judicial capital of Bolivia, Sucre, is a small town of 200’000 people which boasts beautiful colonial buildings everywhere. The city’s name doesn’t refer to the sweet ingredient, but to the revolutionary leader Antonio Jose Sucre. He was one of Simón...