Incredible India

Muselland Kaschmir













Shafi, history academic and present runner of the biggest stitching leather dynasty in Srinager, shows me around, tells me everything about the history of Kashmir, about Islam and the holy book. Of coarse we talk about marriages and relationships also...
It was back in time in the days of the second prophet after Adam. The prophet was thinking and what if after 3 or 4 years of marriage man sees a more beautiful woman? Well, if he can handle it, he shall have many women the prophet thought. Though a woman came up to him and asked and what if the woman finds someone she likes better? The prophet tumbled. Let me think about it over night, come back tomorrow, he said. In the night he was enlightened. Next morning he asked the woman: If you have a glass of water and one containing milk and you mix them up in a big bowl, will you still be able to separate them? And if a woman now has two men, how will she know who is the father of her child?
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On my second day in Srinager I was invited to a engagement party including lamb slaughter, preparation of at least 15 meat dishes and the gay entertaining the folks with their dances.

Tar for road construction



Sadic, my gipsy mountain guide, couldn't keep up with my pace so he rode the pony instead















Gipsy women and kids




Where Indira Ghandi used to come when in need to empty her mind


Praying towards Mekka









free as an eagle




Little Tibet Ladakh


In the meanwhile I'm so famous that they make reliefs and drawings of me everywhere









fifty in the monastery, bounce
















Curious elder didn't like the picture so I had to make another one. I liked it though




Monk on bike with Ronaldo T-shirt


















Celebrating Dalai Lamas birthday in the himalayan heights. More on to come...



The fellowship on the trekVasiliki the greek gipsy Heidi, her friend Joanna on prohibited grounds, Asaf the israeli without warm socks and our guide Karma, tibetan refugee with good karma
not to forget horseman and cook living in the high altitudes








and of coarse Andi and his loyal companion even on 5500 m above sea level










Where Indus the holy river is still a stream


Not one single ride without breakdown

Stories when I'm back from the breathtaking roads in the himalayan mountains


Where I'm sitting in this publishing moment












thumbs up

TINTIN and the monks

Rising in the high altitudes of the Himalayan mountains little boy doesn't find the buddhist buddies as serious as expected. Playing games and chatting on their cell phones, relaxing and sniffing tabacco in the sun they are getting ready for the long and cold wintertime.

However he tries to stay as serious as possible on his path to enlightenment. Kneading sempa dough for breakfast, teaching them french, serving them tea, chatting in the sun, enchanting them with guitar tunes, and meditating to their powerful mantras in the mornings he shares a lot of happy moments with the monks. Considering the belches and sneezing during the prayers, the monk going mad for hours on the drums every morning and the otherone spinning the wheel of fortune from early morning till late at night, boy never figured wheter he found himself in a highly spiritual, a mental care or a insanity center. He was however deeply impressed and touched by the trueheartedness of all laughters and gestures.

I'm just sitting here watching the wheel go round and round...

Hindustan - Holy Cow

India wasn't India if it wasn't for the dirt, the noise, the heat, the howling, the chaos, the yelling, the fight for each rupee, the no sex before arranged marriage, the perverts and not doing everything to get close to western women, the gurus, the belief noone understands, the superstition, the big buisness of selling karma and spirituality, the beggers, the cripples, the little girle and her younger brother sleeping peacefully in the middle of traffic, though every now and then being enchanted by magical mystical, melancholic tunes and dreams of beautiful eyes and eternal love and the magic of a few growing in their hearts out of misery inspiring millions - Life and Death as natural and close as they can get

Begging with style