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heraclio - Hans Klausmann

Hans Klausmann We looked at each other there and then but I don't seem to remember where and when.

Lost between worlds, lost between cultures, lost between people, religious feelings forcing an endless narrative inside my Farang skull, feeling best when on the road with my greasy old faded jeans, my sweaty T-shirt, my bulky backpack containing my woldly possessions.

Sleeping in third world rock bottom hotels, drinking cheap liqour with the locals, always in searching for a spiritual answer to my quest for peach and understanding.

Shunning away from camara hung tourists but having no problemo with the western alternatives living in self made huts on the beach of an impoverished nation.

Not really bothering to walk across the globe or move around on a rusty old bicycle with my tent and sleeping bag tied to the back wildcamping in the forest, chicken buses with roosters in cages underneath wooden benches while local passegers snort their noses openly, is the mode of transport I prefer instaed of a VIP with built-in toilet, reclining seats and a video screen showing the pirates latest releases.

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Albatros chick
Albatros chick
on Isla Española
Islas De Galapagos, Isla Hispañola/Española, 12-10-1990, afternoon. Reading the world famous "On The Origin Of Species" by Charles Darwin, I can't but wonder how much mental turmoil must have gone through this great man's mind before throwing overboard the Genesis Concept, Holy Rome's own version of the creation of species, an overnight introduction of life to an otherwise barren planet by an omni-present Deus Ex Machina, a bored higher devine being who felt lost and alone in an empty universe so he/she created Man, so God could amuse himself watching the antics of Man... [View Full Entry]

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Albatros chick
Albatros chick

Turtle
Turtle
swimming along our boat
Islas De Galapagos, Isla Española/Hispaõla, 12-10-1990, Morning. Having an early morning swim while my fellow passengers are still recovering from their first encounter with high waves and green Galapagos vomit, I'm having my first encounter with the Gapagos Islands' fearless animals...sean lions defy me to participate in their sub-aqautic play, their slender seal-like bodies all around me, dark shadows shooting past my snorkle, their acrobatic actions in their salty liquid realm would put any human professional swimmer a blosh of shame to the face... Though these stunning isl [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 27th 2009 | 22 Views | [diary=448602]

gull
sea lions

Birds..
Birds..
feeding the chicks blood red spagetti rat entrails
Islas De Galapagoas, Isla Hispañola, 11-10-1990. I spit out a big blob of red colored pleghm, the taste of metalic blood foremost in my mouth while my body is trembling, big spasms of muscle cramps rippling through my shivering body. I am covered with the red earth I am lying on, my pinkish flesh shining through the rivers left on my skin by heavily perspiring pores... I am learning a lesson here and surrounded by a crowd of locals it is humiliating, the cops who have become my friends these last few weeks, dressed in their tight-fitting brown police uniforms daring [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 21st 2009 | 31 Views | [diary=446990]

Our "cruize"  ship
Birds..

Galapgos tortoise
Galapgos tortoise
dining on cactus wood
Islas de Galapagos, Isla Baltra, 10-10-1990, Amsterdam, the ways of the Gods are incomprehensible to us humble human beings, we die after a life time of struggling the perils and trails of our excistence, the tribulations of moving through time and space, maybe all in vain, no cristian heaven or buddhist nirvana, just a dark void with no spiritual answers to our fragile minds. Try to see it from a different point of view, through the eyes of a different life form, whose young life will start without a parent or the safety of a modern delivery ward in a human [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 18th 2009 | 28 Views | [diary=445994]

Galapgos tortoise
more.....

Aino from Finland
Aino from Finland
my travelpartner and ladyfriend
Ecuador, Quito,09-10-1990. Nothing can distrup my good mood this morning walking through a still foggy Quito devoid of traffic at this early hour. These Ecuadorians are definitely not early risers. I feel a bit like hiking the streets of a past era, a pre-conquistadores time though the whitewashed and red-tiled houses, the many colonial churches reminding me that the times of complete seperations of the American continents from power hungry medieval European rulers are a far away reality. Leaving the Quito historic centre behind, I enter a residential area full with modern looking shoppi [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 11th 2009 | 35 Views | [diary=444052]


In Quito
In Quito
reading a local paper
Ecuador, Quito, 07-10-1990, I'm leaning against the entrance of the Gran Casino Hotel panting and not bothering to unleash my bulky old travel partner from my aching back, its strings painfully biting into my shoulder blades. Hating taxi drivers the world over I decided to walk the six kilometers leading me through the old historic centre of Quito, through the hustle and full of life cobblestone streets, feeling a strange ambience of the past invading my mind, weary after nearly twenty hours of near non-stop flying... Not yet a full hour on Ecuadorian soil and already my gray brain [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 5th 2009 | 28 Views | [diary=442362]

Market scêne

Galapagos frog
Galapagos frog
seen during my trip
Amsterdam, 05-10-1990. - So you really gonna do this, Hans? His question seems obsolete considering the bulky backpack leaning against the wooden table, the countless discussions we had these last couple of days about my up-coming trip...further away as ever before in my young life, all the way to Ecuador and Las Islas de Galapagos, maybe a short detour into Colombia as well... Two big pints of frothy Heineken cover both sides of our chessboard, a iron astray full to overflow and the burning spliff in James's hands adding to the already laden air heavy with the sweet aroma of Ganja [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 1st 2009 | 26 Views | [diary=441250]

Galpagos turtle

Prinsengracht
Prinsengracht
early morning in Amsterdam
Amsterdam, 30-09-2009. It is windy and a sleek rain is making life difficult for the animal life outside in the interior garden of my house here in Amsterdam. Makes me wonder if somewhere out there is a long-distance cyclist daring the elements despite his empty wallet and sh*tty equipment, a rusty mate offering a uncomfortable and not so stable leather saddle to its tested to the max owner'*ss, a leaky tent and a muffty moth-eaten sleeping bag his only company during long and dark nights wild camping in the forest, his mind uncable to deal with the hectic, the hustle and [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 29th 2009 | 43 Views | [diary=440780]

Souvenir shop
Keizersgracht

flowers
flowers
in the Flevo Polder
Almere Haven, Flevo Polder, 02-08-2001. For the last two days I have been in a haze, cycling well beyond 200 kilometers a day on sandy tracks, wild paths in the forest, along tranquil canals and forest streams, across rugged hills and gliding across the German/Dutch border pas de problem despite my vagabond appaerance, despite the wild eyed-look in my face looking back at me from the mirror of a bathroom in the very first restaurant I found once back on Dutch soil, the face of a man possessed... possessed by the sharp claws of society, paying my rent and keeping my [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 23rd 2009 | 24 Views | [diary=439145]

more flowers

Scorpion
Scorpion
in the forest
Close to Bielevelt, 312-07-2001. Despite my pot and booze addictions, despite the chaotic mental state I'm in brought about by severakl weeks of living it rough, despite my cr*ppy old rusty bicycle, no maps or travel guides, my second-hand bicycle gear, hardly any spare parts and a leaking old tent...Despite all my old stuff and bad motivation...I am avaraging close to 200 kilometers a day now with the Dutch border getting tangibly close... An intrepid and self-proficient long-distance cyclist cycling from forest to forest hoping for an undisturbed sleeping spot free of charge and h [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 19th 2009 | 21 Views | [diary=437822]

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