Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Asia, Southern Africa on May 12th, 2011
It´s been already two years since I finally handed my diploma-thesis and managed to get my exam – 24 months of great work and life experiences abroad in Asia and now in Southern Africa. And during this time I realised how much I owe my motivation and experiences from non-formal education but especially how much [...]
Posted in Southern Africa on Dec 19th, 2010
As I am working already nine months in the GTZ Transboundary Water Management programm supporting the SADC Water Division with monitoring activities, donor-harmonisation and diverse public relation activities I wanted to share some results and impacts of our work for better understanding. Often regional integration is not easy to explain and benefits are indirect and [...]
Posted in Southern Africa on Nov 30th, 2010
Southern Africa is a great place for holidays – especially, when the grey November-days starting in Europe and Germany. That why my father and my brother and his girl-friend decided to visit the region for a two-weeks roundtrip to South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique and Botswana in the beginning of November and I joined them for [...]
Posted in Southern Africa on Oct 30th, 2010
The Okavango-delta in Botswana is famous all round the world as one of the pristine areas with an overflow of birds, mamals, trees and flowers – also it is one of the rare areas, where a strong river simply silt up with an enourmous delta in the middle of the Kalahari desert. As I am [...]
Posted in Southern Africa on Oct 10th, 2010
We made it to the “Mother City” – Cape Town and its beautiness. Last time when I was there – four years ago – she was hidden in clouds and rain but this time the capricious city showed herselfs from her best side. We had an amazing week caught between the majestic table mountain and [...]
Posted in Southern Africa on Aug 30th, 2010
As my probation period ends I am now officially allowed taking holidays again and so the next months are packed with diverse get-aways and proper leaves to all the exotic countries around us to dive deeper in the African adventure. As I liked the amazing Namibian country-side in March so much we started end of [...]
Posted in Southern Africa on Jul 18th, 2010
FIFA World Cup in South Africa: So many words have been written and so many stories told but these were some extra-ordinary weeks over here in Southern Africa with great games & people, freaky vuvuzelas, amazing hospitality and most of all a great team-spirit. Before the games started everybody was nervous and also a bit [...]
Posted in Botswana, Southern Africa on May 24th, 2010
Now it´s almost three months that I arrived back to Southern Africa – to this amazing continent full of extrems: amazing people and hospitality – chaotic and ineffective organisation … incredible landscapes – poverty and health problems … lots of work – but also great short-time holidays. Even if my pictures speak different languages and [...]
Posted in Southern Africa on May 24th, 2010
Rain, rain, rain – these were the first impressions that Jona got, when he finally arrived on 22nd April from Germany in Johannesburg. As this time of the year in Southern Africa the short autumn starts and will be followed by winter in June and July – it is getting pretty cold in the morning [...]
Posted in Southern Africa on Apr 18th, 2010
Shortly before Easter my car, Toyota RAV4, arrived and so I therefore decided to spend these days with friends in Namibia. That was mainly an adventure for the car and me, as we didn´t know each others at all before we departed for this 3.000km journey from Gaborone to Windhoek, from there to Sossusvlei and [...]