Diving in Malapascua – home of the thresher shark (2of2)

From Palawan we have a direct flight to Cebu. The plane leaves 30min ahead of schedule, they were done with the boarding 🙂 From Cebu it’s a 3.5h drive to the northern tip of the island and a 30min boat ride to Malapascua. We’re back at Ocean Vida and diving with Martin at Sea Explorers. […]

Diving in Malapascua – home of the thresher shark (1of2)

From Palawan we have a direct flight to Cebu. The plane leaves 30min ahead of schedule, they were done with the boarding 🙂 From Cebu it’s a 3.5h drive to the northern tip of the island and a 30min boat ride to Malapascua. We’re back at Ocean Vida and diving with Martin at Sea Explorers. […]

Seydisfjördur to Myvatn part 1

Best morning in Iceland! We drive from our fjördur to Borgarfjördur Eystri. It’s a super tiny village (luckily though including a petrol station, it would have been a long way to push the car back to town) with about 30’000 pairs of nesting puffins. There is a small harbor with a viewing platform where you […]

Skaftafell to Seydisfjördur – part 1

To avoid the rain in Skaftafell we drive another 8km and pitch our tent in Svinafell, another nice campsite and without rain. The weather is very local here, especially close to the glaciers. Luckily it stopped raining in Skaftafell overnight and we get back there in the morning for the walk to the Skaftafellsjökull glacier […]

Cuernos del Paine

this is the final post of the patagonian trip. We hiked for 121km with a total ascent of 6’000m, can’t wait to go back. unfortunately i didn’t get the light i was hoping for but i’m pretty happy with these results

Mirador Torres del Paine

end of the hike was promising the second best view of the cuernos. we arrived up there after a steep hike, rather windy, took my time to find a location and this is the only picture i managed to take before a sudden mist follow by snow kicked in. it snowed all night long till […]

Torres del Paine – the W hike

the famous hike around Torres del Paine , the “W hike” due to its shape is about 90km long, takes 5 days of moderate hike, sure it could be done in 4 as well. the treks are so nicely marked i really cannot understand why some hikers had a guide with them. anyone that likes […]

Torres del Paine

i’ve been obsessed with Torres del Paine ever since childhood when i read “Toate panzele sus!” (sails up) with Speranta crew’s(Hope’s) adventures around the Tierra del Fuego, the name was just inspiring. some years later when i’ve seen a sunset picture of the cuernos i knew i will end up there sooner or later, even […]

Fitzroy and Cerro Torre

time to say goodbye to El CHalten, the nicest mountain village i’ve ever seen, yes a swiss said that, 2nd class swiss as some say 🙂 on the way out still clouds, what else, but at least this time the view was far better than few days ago. Coming back to El Chalten and drop […]

Laguna Los Tres

the trail from El Chalten to Laguna Los Tres is the most popular hike in the region. the hike is pretty decent, 5 hrs each way with a total altitude difference of just little over 1’000m through an amazing landscape…that’s how is advertised, when you have to do the hike in pouring rain that even […]

Patagonian landscape

close to the entrance in the national park Los Glaciers lays this amazing farm. we stopped there for lunch an will definitely spend some night next time we’ll be there

Perito Moreno and Los Glaciares National Park

home to 47 big glaciers and 200 small ones Los Glaciares National Park is a must see in Argentina. we took a ferry ride, full day to see some of the biggest glaciers and what a sight that is. The size of these glaciers puts the european ones i’ve seen to utter shame. the most […]

El Chalten

the home of the Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre hikes, El Chalten lays few hours away from El Calafate. along the route you get to see the Fitz Roy closer and closer driving the last kilometres in a agonising slow speed, believing after each next curve the famous view will lay ahead. the weather hasn’t […]

Mythen (grosse und kleine)

last weekend was the first hike of the season and when reached this place i thought it would make a nice picture, luckily the farmer was kind enough to let us camp on his ground. It was a rough night with a…hmm…best described as dry storm, now we know the tent can take heavy winds

Creux du Van

Seealpsee

first try, second to come shortly

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Bachalpsee

camping! finally, the best way to be there for THE light and curious marmots won’t be bothered too much about you…

Day 46 – Diving in Sipadan (Barracuda Point)

one of my favourite images: a shoal of jack fish swarming, a tuna in the middle and 5 sharks at the bottom

Day 45 – Diving in Sipadan (Barracuda Point)

depending on what diving magazine you read, the Barracuda Point in Sipadan is considered to be the best place in the world to dive. we returned here after 2 years and for sure we’ll come again. the white-tip fin shark – the world’s laziest shark, i took this picture from about 1 1/2 -2 m.

Day 44 – Diving in Mabul

Day 43 – Diving in Mabul

Day 37 – Diving in Bohol (little things)

Day 36 – Diving in Bohol

the parent trigger fish is known to defend the surroundings of its nest even from divers, by no means this is a little fish, its bite can be rather painful, the guide needed to jump in my defence as of a wired reason it targeted me as potential predator…

Day 35 – Diving in Bohol

Day 33 – Diving in Malapascua

Day 32 – Diving in Malapascua

Day 31 – Diving in Malapascua

everyone loves Nemo squat shrimp mating tobbies

Day 9 – Diving in Palau

with the bigeye jacks on this island they shot the first season of “Survivor”

Mantis shrimp *

really cute tiny creature, extremely shy and so colorful. after i went so close to it to get these macros was i told that very often they hit the camera dome so strong with their claws that they are responsible for a lot of camera floods…

Moraine-eels *

my favourite underwater creature

Cuttle fish *

believe it or not is the same one in all pictures, all happening within 4-5 seconds

Sulawesi – Crabs (3/3) *

these two ones, i don’t think they were more than 4 mm big, the power of macro lenses

Sulawesi – Crabs (2/3) *

Sulawesi – Crabs (1/3) *

Sulawesi – Anemonefish (2/2) *

Sulawesi – Anemonefish (1/2) *

after a very very long break I start to post way overdue pictures. I will begin with the diving pictures in Sulawesi, best dive ever, two weeks, 1563 good pictures (after each dive any missfocus or missfiring of the flashes or just bad picture, was immediately deleted). It took me almost 3 months to come […]

Maldives UWP last post and gallery published

to see the entire Maldives gallery hover with the mouse over the Menu, then over Travel and click on Maldives.

Maldives UWP – little tiny ones*

Blue Ribbon and various Moraines

Blue Ribbon above, my favorite picture of the Maldives series       Golden moraine, initially i thought it was a baby moraine, to find out in the end it is very rare specie of moraine Honeycomb-Moraine

Maldives UWP – Tobby*

Maldives UWP – blue striped snappers*

Maldives UWP Close-ups and Macros*

from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post

Maldives UWP Juvenile yellow boxfish*

from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post

Maldives UWP Turtle and the paparazzi*

from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post

Maldives UWP Clown and Anemone fish*

from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post perhaps the most photographed fish

Riffelsee 2

actually it seems there are two lakes, next to each other with the same name..i like this most

Riffelsee

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