Welcome to this introductory episode of Unfolding Maps, the new podcast, in which we accompany passionate border crossers and world wanderers on their expeditions and gain exciting insights into distant places and fascinating cultures. Guests of Unfolding Maps include adventurers, travel writers, photographers, filmmakers and other curious globetrotters who look behind the obvious. Book author Erik Lorenz talks to them about their expeditions and the experiences that shaped them. Originating from the German podcast WELTWACH with more than 120 episodes released today, Unfolding Maps aims at inspiring as many people as possible to leave familiar spaces of experience, not to be suspicious of differences, but to value them, to overcome one or the other supposed or actual border, and to consciously savor the small and big magic moments on the way. In this episode, host Erik Lorenz speaks of what is to be expected of Unfolding Maps. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy