Who is Human Travel Stories?
We are Teresa and Dennis from Munich, the storytellers behind Human Travel Stories. With our content we want to inspire you to experience the world in the way we’ve been doing it on our trips to over 70 countries: Human & by public transport.
“Travel makes one modest: one sees what a tiny place one occupies in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert
Teresa
Ever since I lived and volunteered in a small village in Tanzania for one year after high school, my curiosity for other cultures and people has been unstoppable. During university, I tried to be abroad as much as possible and spent a few months in India and Jordan. Moreover, I studied for one semester in Argentina and learnt Spanish.
After graduation, I worked for two different international organizations as project manager.
Meeting new people and hearing their life stories is the fulfillment I get from traveling.
Dennis
My first big trip in 2014 – 3 months backpacking in Southeast Asia with my best friend – infected me with the travel bug. During university, I traveled as much as time and budget allowed me. I spent one semester in Huelva, Spain where I became fluent in Spanish.
I used to work as content guy in a travel agency, and as SEO guy in a big German company before we set out to our big trip from Germany to Australia by public transport.
I prefer people over places and counting memories over countries.
What does the ‘human’ in Human Travel Stories mean?
We understand the word ‘human’ in two ways:
Traveling is not always the picture-perfect activity that social media wants you to believe it is. Sometimes it is stressful, sometimes you get sick or lost or things go wrong. And this is normal. It is human! Just like life itself, traveling has its ups and downs. At Human Travel Stories, you will get both sides of the coin. You could call it real, authentic, or honest. But we prefer calling it ‘human’.
Experiencing new places through the eyes of humans is our motivation to travel. In our content on Instagram, we want to give humans a voice to tell their incredible stories that would have never been told otherwise.
Human Travel Stories in the media
Radio interview with 2SER Sydney
