Christine and Yves are traveling around the world. We will post our experiences and impressions from our stages and would love to hear your comments or suggestions if you have been on any place on our route.
Lonely Planet describes La Paz as „a mad carnival of jostling pedestrians, honking, diesel-spewing minivans, street marches and dances, and cavalcades of street vendors“ and are completely right. The traffic in the city is imense and if cars should not emit more than 120 g CO2/100km in Europe, it seems to be 120 kg/100km here… Continue reading La Paz, Sucre and Potosi – three very different Bolivian cities
Dear All, Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful and hopefully relaxed holiday season. We will spend Christmas in the Atacama desert in Chile in a nice guest house near San Pedro de Atacama. We have almost no internet, therefore we have to wait to upload further blog contributions. Our current view from… Continue reading Merry Christmas – Frohe Weihnachten – Feliz Navidad 🎄
We heard a lot of good and bad stories about Bolivia; about people who lost their passports to fake officers, about criminal tour guides and drunk bus drivers. However, we also heard (from other people) that Bolivia is one of the safest countries in South America. Not knowing what we should expect, we crossed the… Continue reading Isla de la frontera (Isla del Sol)
Some months ago in London Armando told us going to the jungle in Perú is an adventure. We had no idea but we were both very keen to go there anyways. The dense jungle We now know that Armando was right. Christine and have never been to another place where so many animals can hurt… Continue reading Welcome to the jungle
To underline the large diversity of wildlife in the Manu National Park in Perú we did a list of the animals we saw while we were on our 8-day trip. Mammals Bolivian Black Hat Squirrel Monkey Toppins Titi Monkey Red Howler Monkey Light colored Howler Monkey Tschudi‘s Woolly Monkey Black Spider Monkey A Black Spider… Continue reading Fantastic species and where to find them 😉
We arrived at 4.30 am in Arequipa after a 15-hour bus ride with little sleep. We therefore went directly to our room to relax. This little cat greeted us at our hostel After some rest we headed out to explore the second largest city of Peru (about 1.5 million inhabitants). Arequipa is called the white… Continue reading Arequipa – the white, the beautiful
After spending three days in Peru‘s capital city we got a first insight into the country‘s history and especially its dishes. (Picture above: Appetizer at a lunch at the seafront in Lima) On the first day we had lunch in a market where only locals were eating. We had Ceviche and rice with seafood, which… Continue reading Lima – The eldorado for foodies
Nach zwei Tagen auf der Hauptinsel Santa Cruz haben wir uns auf ein Schiff gewagt - besonders gewagt für Christine, die (noch) nicht ganz seefest ist. Unser Schiff „Reina Silvia“ ist benannt nach der schwedischen Königin und hatte sechs Kabinen mit je zwei Gästen. Mit uns an Bord waren zwei Amerikaner und viele Europäer, darunter… Continue reading Sieben Tage auf dem Meer
We are currently on Isla Isabela (Galapagos) after a 7 day cruise where we experienced different islands in Galapagos and made hundreds of pictures. Unfortunately our internet connection is very slow right now and we are not able to upload any pictures. We hope we will be able to do so in a couple of… Continue reading Still in Galapagos – slow internet connection
Yesterday on October 24 we left on 5.40 am in Frankfurt (dark, 11°C) and arrived in Ecuador (bright and much warmer). We directly headed for the old town of Quito. There were a lot of people on the streets on their way back home and we had to take several shortcuts to avoid traffic jams… Continue reading We arrived in South America
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