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Miga-Cove: Our stay with the indigenous tribe Naso Tjër-Di
“Miga”-with this word the Naso greeted us every day. When a person said that, you answered with “cove”. It’s a friendly greeting in the language of the Naso. After a long bus ride, we arrived in the small town called… mehr lesen
Host Families
The bus stops, the sky is dark. It is late in the evening. I get off the bus, which brought us from David to Boquete. We all grab our backpacks and go to a place in front of the language… mehr lesen
At Miguel’s
“Everything that´s green is poison – good thing that I am brown all over.” ~ Flo That was our motto when we visited Miguel, a lovely, funny man who lives together with his partner Yaneth in the rainforest of Panama.… mehr lesen
New Year´s Eve
Same feeling, different place, different people. 8 am. My day started waking up in my hammock on Turtle Island and looking through palm leaves at a blue sky. Realizing that this had been the last night in 2024 brought a… mehr lesen
A very different merry Christmas
Sunshine, sea, hot temperatures, summer dresses, warm nights. Our very different Christmas. And yet: It wasn’t at all less beautiful than the Christmas we normally celebrate at home. In fact, we did celebrate at home. On the Thor, our second… mehr lesen
From paradise to pure reality
Hello dear readers. Here we are now, on the other side of the world. During our stay on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines we collected so many beautiful and lifechanging memories that there is an uncountable number of things I… mehr lesen
Suddenly in the Caribbean
Blinded by the beauty, arrived, finally there, a feeling of release, satisfied, thankful, fantastic, unbelievable, beautiful, magical, exciting, relieved, shattered, overwhelmed and surreal. These adjectives were named by some crew members when I asked them to describe the moment of… mehr lesen
The little things humans need
To be satisfied, a human being needs a few things. There are needs like sleep or food, but also other things humans need for life. For example, music. In order to fulfill these requirements on our ship, we have our… mehr lesen
How crossing the Atlantic feels like a short weekend trip
The Atlantic Ocean, a gate to the Caribbean, and we are sailing through it. Here, you really get to know yourself and your limits. Limits like going to your night watch and trying not to fall asleep because of the… mehr lesen
Our own small school
One could think that school aboard the Thor Heyerdahl is like normal school, only that you have less lessons and you are on a ship. However, if you make the mistake of comparing the Thor to a normal school and… mehr lesen