Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Germany

Feline therapy

Feeling stressed out? A visit to a cat café could help. Stroking a cat can have a calming effect, something that resourceful businesspeople in Asia have been exploiting for some time. The first cat café opened in Taiwan in 1998, and the trend continues. In Germany, cat cafés have opened in several cities, including Hamburg and Munich, allowing cat lovers to unwind by snuggling with a moggy. The cats in turn have their very own rest room. All very cat-friendly!

Kenya

Beest intentions

Every summer, safari fans gather in the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya to see one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles: the mass migration of over a million wildebeests across the Serengeti savannah.

London, Great Britain

Feet, meet floor

Sebastian Erras travels the world with his eyes on the ground, taking pictures of fanciful mosaic floors and snapping characteristic patterns in Paris, Barcelona and London (photo). The signature detail is the German photographer’s stylishly shod feet at the lower edge of every picture.

Jaipur, India

Palace of the windows

The Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, India, was built in 1799 for the sole purpose of allowing the ladies of the royal household to watch processions unobserved. Hence the 953 intricately screened windows in its facade.

Mr. Know It All

Daily boat

Summer and water sports are a perfect combination of fun and activity. But why not take it up a notch by building your own surfboard, sailing boat or raft? See you in the water!

Timber!

At a top speed of three kilometers an hour, a rafting trip on Sweden’s Klarälven River is a leisurely drift. But first you have to build your own raft – using whole tree trunks.

vildmark.se

Boat ahoy

Build your own kayak, row- or sailboat in only a week at the Great Lakes Boat Building School in the U.S. state of Michigan. Then set sail straight into the water sports arenas that are the Great Lakes on the doorstep.

glbbs.edu

Against the grain

Foam surfboards are a dime a dozen. At Patrick Burnett in Cape Town, you can make your own beautiful, ecofriendly, custom wooden board – and then test it at South Africa’s top surf spots.

burnettwoodsurfboards.co.za

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