Michael Runkel Photographs

Michael Runkel Photographs Michael Runkel (www.michaelrunkel.com) is a professional travel photographer with a focus on UNESCO World Heritage sites around the world.

His collection covers photos from all 193 UN countries worldwide. For more photos visit: http://michaelrunkel.com Bilder aus allen Erdteilen und Ländern. Mehr zu sehen unter www.michaelrunkel.com.

26/08/2026

Island Check: Niue, called the “Rock of Polynesia” for being one of the largest single coral islands on Earth.

Just east of the international date line inside a triangle between Tonga, Samoa, and the Cook Islands, it has some of the clearest water in the world: the island has no rivers or streams, and rainwater filters directly through the porous limestone coral 🪸 (there’s no runoff sediment- visibility can reach 100 meters).

Stay tuned for an upcoming series about my 23-territory trip across the South Pacific I did earlier this summer.

Welcome to the game of Buzkashī, a brutal equestrian sport played in Central Asia for over a thousand years. It’s been c...
24/08/2026

Welcome to the game of Buzkashī, a brutal equestrian sport played in Central Asia for over a thousand years. It’s been compared to polo, except instead of a ball there is a decapitated goat or calf carcass. In northern Afghanistan it’s considered a national sport and passion.

This game and Afghan community is featured in my upcoming book “Letzte Stimmen” (“Last Voices”), out in September.

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22/08/2026

Palccoyo Mountain 🌈 , the less-crowded alternative to Vinicunca Rainbow Mountain. I’m all alone here, I chose to come much later and it was well worth it. It’s a gentler multi-mountain alternative but with more varied scenery including the unique “stone forest” and much more solitude than at Vinicunca.

20/08/2026

BTS printing of a few of my images for Fotopark 2026 … cool to see them in large format. Looking forward to seeing you there in September!
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BTS: beim Drucken einiger meiner Bilder für Fotopark 2026… toll, sie im Großformat zu sehen. Ich freue mich darauf, euch im September zu sehen!
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14/08/2026

Would you make the journey to reach this? 👇
📍 Lau Archipelago, Fiji

Scattered along the eastern edge of Fiji, the Lau Islands are some of the hardest in the country to reach — no regular flights, limited boat access, and a way of life still shaped more by the sea than by tourism.
Raised limestone cliffs, hidden lagoons, and villages that see outsiders only rarely. This is Fiji almost no one gets to photograph.

13/08/2026

Could you pick a favorite island out of these? 👇
📍 Mamanuca Islands, Fiji

Scattered across the water like stepping stones, the Mamanucas range from tiny uninhabited motu you could circle on foot in minutes, to slightly larger islands with a single resort and nothing else. Each one sits in its own perfect ring of turquoise, separated by nothing but reef and open water.
From above, the whole chain looks less like geography and more like a hand-drawn map.

08/08/2026

Would you leave this window? 👇
📍 Mamanuca Islands, Fiji

On the descent into Nadi, the Mamanuca Islands unfold beneath the plane like a string of pearls — turquoise lagoons, white sandbars, and tiny forested islands that look pulled straight from a travel brochure.
The kind of moment you want to hold onto before the wheels even touch down.

06/08/2026

Would you know what this dance is telling you? 👇
📍 Kiribati, Central Pacific

Traditional Kiribati dance — te buki, te kaimatoa, and others — tells stories through the arms and upper body rather than footwork, often re-enacting legends, ocean journeys, or the movement of frigatebirds.
Performed at gatherings for generations, in a country where almost no outsiders ever get to see it live.

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