“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness” – Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader and Nobel Prize Winner In 2014, while still living in Russia, I got the opportunity to work on a company-strategic project along with 14 other colleagues …
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Rwanda will always have a special place in my heart and mind. I would dare to say that Rwanda has transformed my life. You have certainly heard these phrases many times. Often they are associated with remote places in the world typically labelled as “exotic” or “a place to escape reality”. But I am not …
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If there is anything that I like more than nature is… the wild nature! We spent the rest of our 1-week vacation in Zambia in the wild, remote and beautiful Kafue National Park. Exactly what I needed after the shiny and quite touristic Victoria Falls. Zambia’s top wildlife watching areas are Southern Luangwa and Lower …
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Africa is the second biggest continent on earth and I visited only about 15% of its countries but I can already say that Zambia is a country I can imagine living, raising children and working in (something I can’t say about other African countries I’ve been to). And it took me just a week to …
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It looks like I will soon need to change the name of my blog. Writing can become addictive. My “overdue Vietnam baby” waited too long to be born and here it is – out and impatient to go around the world! To visit Vietnam while living in Rwanda may not sound quite reasonable, and many …
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An undeniable benefit of living in Africa is the proximity of wildlife and national parks. In Rwanda, a 1,5-2 hours’ drive takes you to the entrance of Akagera National Park – home to over 500 bird species, the Big 5 game animals including the lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino, and plenty of other magnificent …
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My knowledge about Mozambique was limited to just a few descriptions by a native Mozambican I shortly met in Kigali. What I heard was enough to raise my curiosity and plan a visit there. Although our stay was relatively short and didn’t include a lot of travel inland and activities as I usually like to …
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This is a story about compassion, humanity and love! A story that proves that when an individual or an organization knows WHY they do what they do, the product, or what they do, is simply a result, the outcome of the why. And my WHY to write this story is that I believe in it …
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Climbing Kilimanjaro has not really been on my wish-list until about a year ago, when I heard from several friends about their experiences conquering the world’s tallest freestanding mountain. All of them spoke about it with rather mixed feelings, focusing a bit more on the negative aspects e.g. the cold nights, the physical exhaustion and …
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After having travelled in most parts of Rwanda including Akagera National Park to the East, Volcanoes National Park to the North and a few destinations along Lake Kivu in the Western Province, we took a long-weekend opportunity to visit the largest remaining mountain rainforest in East Africa – Nyungwe Forest southwest of Rwanda. Leaving statistics …
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