Benjamin Viatte, accidentally nicknamed Ben Baba by the Indian media, was born in a cozy Switzerland setting and lovingly tended by a loving family. It seemed he had everything… yet something was also missing. Something about the deeper questions that nothing from the outside world could hope to answer: birth, old age, love, loss of loved ones, ego, impermanence, lasting happiness, death...

At his 24th year a dream shook his being, in which these questions were dramatically brought to the surface. After lying in the dark on a stone floor, the troubling void was interrupted by a barefoot monk walking calmly, peace in every step, headed eastwards...

Ben assumed the message was clear enough, and the next morning he started packing his things to attempt a journey on foot to the Indian Himalayas. He ended up crossing 18 countries and reached his destination Dharamshala 5 years later, after a 15'000 kilometer walk of which he relished every moment.

But does that even matter? Don't we all know the real journey is inwards? And India's the motherland of such a marking spiritual culture that Ben's inner journey has only begun.