The enthusiasm of Tobias Schorr for minerals and fossils began early: as a 12-year-old, he roamed forests and quarries in search of natural treasures. Around 1980, he met the mineral collector and artist Heinz Stempel in Hornberg in the Black Forest. Tobias spent several school holidays with him, learning how to identify rocks and document his finds. On joint excursions, they discovered pegmatites with rare beryl crystals (aquamarines), which Tobias later published in the specialist magazine LAPIS.

Together with his friend Matthias Lange, he undertook numerous geological tours in the Heilbronn region, an area shaped by Triassic rocks. They found dinosaur fossils, petrified plants, nautiloids, and rare minerals, including azurite, which Tobias also published in LAPIS.

He didn’t just want to analyze his discoveries but also preserve them visually — this is how he discovered his passion for photography. He later refined his skills at the A. Lazi School of Photography and Media Design in Esslingen.

Tobias began learning Modern Greek early and fell in love with Greece during his first visit in 1984. In 1989, he moved to the still little-known Methana Peninsula near Athens. Throughout the 1990s, he intensively photographed the region’s landscapes, culture, and nature and published his first Greece article in the magazine TOURS in 1988.

His goal: to make Methana better known and to promote sustainable tourism. After returning to Germany in 1994, he completed a tour guide training program in Berlin, worked from 1995 as a tour guide and driver on Jeep safaris in Cyprus, and from 1996 developed the Santorini hiking program for a tour operator based in Bonn.

At travel fairs such as Philoxenia in Thessaloniki, he promoted Methana with concepts for sustainable tourism, worked with architect Spyros Papaioannou to create and mark about 60 km of hiking trails, and published extensive information about the region on his websites www.methana.de

In 1999, Tobias led the first foreign hiking group to stay exclusively on Methana. Through his tours, he combined nature, geology, and culture, helping to introduce and promote sustainable tourism in the region.

In 2005, Tobias, together with his friend Tom Pfeiffer, founded the travel company VolcanoDiscovery. For over ten years, they successfully guided groups to active and dormant volcanoes — on Santorini, Milos, Methana, Nisyros, Lesbos, as well as destinations as far away as Indonesia and Ethiopia. Their mission: to make geo-tourism an immersive and educational experience.

Today, Tobias Schorr continues this work with his own company, Nature Discovery Tours, while maintaining a close partnership with VolcanoDiscovery. Travelers benefit from a network of experts, decades of experience, and unique, tailor-made tour concepts.

Tobias Schorr is not only a tour guide but also a photographer, nature enthusiast, and storyteller. Almost all the photos on his websites are his own work. During his tours, he helps guests take better pictures — whether with a smartphone or a professional camera — and reveals details that are easy to miss when exploring alone.

His motto:

“Everyone can be an explorer — you just need curiosity and an open eye.”

Tobias Schorr started to be interested in geology, minerals and fossils since he was about 12 years old.  Around 1980 he meet the German mineral collector and photographer Heinz Stempel in Hornberg/Black forest. He was a kind of teacher to him and introduced him in micro mineral collecting and photography. On hiking tours with him, he discovered rare beryll crystals which he published in the German mineral collector´s magazine LAPIS.
Later in the German region of Heilbronn/Stuttgart he did lots of excursions with his friend Matthias Lange to different geological sites of the Trias time (190-200 million years ago) and they discovered rare fossils of dinosaur and ceratites.

Because of his mineral and fossil discoveries he needed a good medium to document his minerals or fossils and he learned to take photos. He took his professional education also at the photographers & designers school A.Lazi at Esslingen/Stuttgart.

1984 he was for his first time in Greece, we he already stred to lear the Greek languagge. From 1989 to 1999 he was living on the Greek volcano peninsula Methana which got his second home.

From 1995 he started to work as a tour guide and 2005 he founded the tour operator VolcanoDiscovery GbR with Tom Pfeiffer. From 2005 to 2015 he was travelling to active volcanoes and guided many groups to the Greek volcanoes Methana, Milos, Santorini, Nisyros and Lesvos.
One of his favourite countries got already Ethiopia...