OLIVER JOEST

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  • Visitor from afar

    Visitor from afar

    While I was crossing Canada on my own I was looking forward to the moment I’d meet my old friend from Germany at the Toronto International Airport for another week of shared road trip experience. Despite a small delay I picked him up without any problems and we checked in for a assimilation night in…

  • Settlers and Mennonites

    Settlers and Mennonites

    The first heritage village I visited was located in Moose Jaw. The village was huge and had over three dozen buildings that tried to reflect the reality and everyday life goods of a settler village at the beginning of the 19th century. It took me hours to see all of it but the highlight of…

  • Ignace Airways & Outpost

    Ignace Airways & Outpost

    One day I woke up the on the shore of the Agimak Lake after being attacked by hundreds of mosquitoes on the spot I chose before. I was preparing my dinner when the hordes came in and started their bloody attack. The only way I saw to get rid of them was eating my dinner…

  • The gold mine of Maligne Lake

    The gold mine of Maligne Lake

    Whenever you’re captive audience at a certain place you don’t have many options instead of saying yes when in reality you feel more like saying no. This is even more so true for the Lake Maligne where the highlight of the lake is only accessible by a narrow passage and a 11 kilometer boat ride…

  • Exploring British Columbia

    Exploring British Columbia

    The van turned out to be a great investment. The travel through British Columbia is a very relaxed and plentiful ride. We stay overnight wherever we feel it’s appropriate to pull out. The car is well equipped and the comfort increased little by little towards a stagnating maximum. We come across forest fires in the…

  • The long way to Panorama Ridge

    The long way to Panorama Ridge

    After cruising all across the beautiful Vancouver Island it was time to take the ferry back to the mainland of Canada. While cruising all the way up north to Jasper we came across the Garibaldi Provincial Park where we thought to climb our way to Lake Garibaldi. Approaching the Rocky Mountains After we arrived late…

  • Ho Chi Minh City

    Ho Chi Minh City

    The two days I spent in the southern Metropole of Vietnam were super relaxed. Some walking around at night time, a visit to the unification palace and admiration for the unwritten laws that keep the traffic participants alive. From this point onwards I am on my own once again. Heading to Bangkok to meet my…