Bunaken Playlist: Diving and a fundamental question

I find it particularly hard to write about experiences which are nothing but incredibly wonderful, because I am running out of words to describe this world out and down there in the sea, the joyful village of Bunaken, the days in the sun and the evenings at the fire on the island. And happiness in this quality raises a fundamental question ... Click to read more.

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The jungle of my childhood dreams

At the age of eleven it was crystal-clear to me that I wanted to become a researcher in the rainforest. I had a quite pronounced idea how a rainforest would look like, probably inspired by some books I had at that time, and for sure inspired by the Jungle Book. So how does it feel to enter a picture that you may have had on your mind for many years, that you may have seen in your childhood in a book? How does it feel to enter King Louie and Mowgli’s territory? Click to read more...

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