You can email me if you have any questions!

giovanniaureel@gmail.com

A few basics about my person:

I live in Austria and I’m 28 years old. I grew up in a small village in Upperaustria. I'm very interested in human evolution/behaviour, every kind of movies and of course - travelling!

Giovanni Aureel is not my real name, so how did I came up with that? Sounds Italian - right? I love Italy - I've been there about a dozen times and my favourite city is Venice. Giovanni is the Italian translation of my real first name (Johannes) and a lot of people use it as a nickname . Aureel - sounds also a bit like my real second name. I choose it because I love writing and was inspried by Marc AUREL (The Philospoher Emperor)- a roman emperor who died near Vienna in Austria.

A couple of years ago I thought my dream of visiting the USA would never come true. Then I went on a trip to South England and London in 1998. London was the first place I explored on my own. I found out that travelling on my own dosen’t mean to be alone or getting lost or robbed.

When I came back from UK it was time to make the next step – I started planning my first trip to the USA – on my own – for the very first time. Luckily my lovly cousin decided to join me – so I had the best company I could get. We started in LA, gambled in Las Vegas, hiked in Arizona and Utah, took the elevator up to the World Trade Center, travelled through the country by Greyhound busses and finally finished our trip in Chicago.

I never was thinking a lot about what I could see in the states. I wanted to meet my friends. I went to Chicago in Spring 2000 to just meet a chat friend. Of course I saw a lot of things, of course the city was amazing, but I wouldn't fly all the 4500 Miles just to see the Sears Tower or the Chicago Bulls. – I wanted to meet this friend. Later that year I decided to fly to Florida. Florida is amazing, and of course the “Kingdom of Tourism”. It had always been a a dream to visit Disney-World since I was a little boy. I guess because I always wanted to be as rich as Uncle Scrooge (Dagobert Duck – for the Germans!).This dream came true – and I also had the chance again to meet a friends.

Why am I’m doing all this? First of all, its kind of a hobby, basically to share my pictures with friends around the globe. It’s my personal place in the web.

In the year 2001 I won an online competition at www.worldsurface.com, with one of my pictures and was able to fly as a Global Reporter three months to Thailand and Australia. I wrote a permanent Online-Diary and took pictures which are published on the website. It was an awesome feeling to report for a whole community about my experiences in travelling and I didn't regret one day of the whole trip.

There is a "sitemap", which gives you an quick access to all pages and "Geo-Guide" which is a clickable map to all countries and places I've visited so far.

In 2003 I visited South Africa and Costa Rica, 2004 in Mexico, 2005 New Zealand, 2007 to Cuba.