KOZHIKODE: Two German youngsters are exploring India in an autorickshaw which they bought from Chennai after they landed there from Sri Lanka. They are on a low-budget tour and have already visited Varkala and Alappuzha and come to Kozhikode. The two friends, Rico Tiebeljhr and Florian Amadeus, 19, from Berlin have found Indian culture and way of life very different from that of Germany.
Rico said, "we have worked for some time in our country and it is with that money we started off our gap-year tour. On January 7, we reached Sri Lanka and then came by the cheapest flight to Chennai. From there we bought a Tuktuk, that is called an autorickshaw in India," he said. They have named it Flo(w)mobile. "Every time we visit new places, we write about it in our blog 'Photodyssee.com. We also write down the names and other details of the interesting persons we meet. We keep a photo bag containing our Sony Alpha 7 camera with which we capture all the images we come across," he said.
They don't overspend and save for their future days in the country. They take a gap year for the tour as once they join the college or work, they don't get time to make such long trips. "We get to learn a lot from India which is different from Germany in all ways," opined Florian, who is known among his friends as Flo. The two will head for Udipi from Kozhikode on Friday.
