Travelogues 
Travel stories from around the globe. The individual posts are part of the blog and the oldest date back to 1999. Popular favorites include My trip to Russia and The Afghanistan diaries.
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GlobalJungle (18197 views)
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Zim-Zim at Kariba (12950 views)
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Eastern Highlands trip (11842 views)
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Independent investigation (11348 views)
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Old friends and loads of Duvels (10344 views)
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Going to see the Cape (9492 views)
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Visa run to Laos (8396 views)
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Sail (7840 views)
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More Eastern Highlands (7645 views)
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Crabwalk (7457 views)
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Berlin - Gdansk - Malbork - Warsaw (5742 views)
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The in between days (4650 views)
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North of France (4375 views)
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In Sickness and in Health (4116 views)
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Venice in pictures (4046 views)
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Cyprus: where Turkey and Greece meet... with guns (3753 views)
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Uganda business trip (3220 views)
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Giants in Belgium (2488 views)
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Beach bumming in Tanzania (2284 views)
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Working for Twaweza in Dar Es Salaam (2085 views)
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Kuala Lumpur and Melaka (1945 views)
26 July 2009 - 29 July 2009
Brieven aan mijn vader
11 July 2006
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When he fell ill, I quickly changed my plans and went to Iran, where he was living. I arrived a day too late.
I spent about four weeks in the country of my birth where I was extremely well taken care of by my family.
During those four weeks and the months after, I wrote imaginary letters to my father. Combined with a bunch of photographs, these are those letters. "Brieven aan mijn vader" is Dutch for "Letters to my father".
If there's enough interest, I might translate them to English someday.
The reason why it has taken me so long to put these texts on-li... read more














After obtaining an M. Sc in maths, Babak Fakhamzadeh started with an office job at a major blue chip company but soon realised he'd do better on his own. Babak is a traveling web guru with a penchant for doing good and a love for visual and experimental art. Together with Ismail Farouk, he won the prestigious Highway Africa new media award in 2007 for