Dani's Travel Photo Blog

Saving a life with 60 Euros

Dani — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:13:46 +0000

Many things have been happening this past week. You might know that I have had a bad cold, just like many of us living here in the orphanage. This gave me the chance to experience a visit to a Nepali doctor. Of course do I have travel insurance and I could have gone [...]

Helping orphanage children in Nepal

Dani — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:33:58 +0000

A bit more than a week I am now in Nepal. While I informed myself well about the situation of orphanages here in Nepal before I came here, the truth is that nothing ever written could prepare me for the real life happening here. I have been thinking a while on what to write [...]

This year your gift could touch a child’s life

Dani — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:10:11 +0000

In January I will travel to Nepal in order to volunteer in orphanages in the area of Kathmandu. The organisation I’ll be volunteering for is called VolNepal. Their labour consists of finding and organising resources for different NGO’s which are active throughout Nepal. VolNepal is working completely independently, meaning that they don’t get any [...]

In the kingdom of the blue sharks

Dani — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:12:23 +0000

Blue, everything is blue. Light blue where the sun beams penetrate the surface a few meters above me to dark, almost black blue when I look down. Out of sight but down there, at about 1000 meters, is the sea floor. The next coast 12 nautical miles away. Here I am, in the middle [...]

Fiestas and bulls in Terceiras wonderful capital

Dani — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:24:01 +0000

There’s a fantastic ambient in the road. People on the sidewalk, on the terraces of their houses and some have even climbed on top of the roofs. Small stalls are selling beer and tapas, young men with a basket in each hand walking the street up and down offering with loud voices the sweets [...]

Lakes of tears and a cup of tea

Dani — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:35:06 +0000

The border of the road we are driving uphill is skirted by giant bushes of hortensias and beautiful trees. Every time the dense vegetation permits our gaze wanders over gently curved hills, covered by green fields and the blue sea in the background. After a little while we arrive at a viewpoint overlooking a [...]

The best bread in the world

Dani — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:53:00 +0000

We are anchoring in a nice little bay with withe sand enclosed by hills with green bushes and trees which are standing so close together and whose branches are so fine and crocked that from a distance they seem like a giant broccoli. Our plan for this morning is to take the dinghy in [...]

One hand for the boat, one hand for yourself

Dani — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:36:45 +0000

This is one of the most important sayings I have learned during this crossing from Lanzarote to the Azores. Low pressure and high pressure systems are the main responsible forces in creating wind. The atmosphere tends to equalize those pressure differences and for this reason air is flowing from the high pressure areas towards [...]

Singapore, the heart of Asia

Dani — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:54:51 +0000

The air is hot an humid. Each step I take I get the sense of yet another smell so different, new and unknown. Fragrances of incense sticks and exotic foods are mixing up with the traffic and the noises of the metropolis. Singapore… Where the ancient traditions of the continent of the rising sun [...]

Mystic Island Lanzarote

Dani — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:41:36 +0000

“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.” When walking through the volcanic landscape of the Timanfaya National Park this passage out of “The Lord of the Rings” often comes [...]