Tag: south america
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Our bus journeys in the world: from hell to heaven!
Funny enough it seems like yesterday when M and I embarked on an exciting adventure to explore 9 Latin American countries together. It is very hard for us to believe that we are now on a complete different chapter, exploring the magical African continent. After many laughs, doubts, tears and incredible encounters, we left Latin…
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Our intensive culinary exploration from Peru to Brazil
So yeah I mentioned a long story in my previous post to explain why we had to go all the way to São Paulo but it is actually a very short one. M and I decided to fly back to Europe (where I’ll attend the wedding of the year! Gosh I cannot wait tho it is…
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Cuenca: a pleasant city I could live in!
Our first “Cuencan” hour was lived with mixed feelings… Ok…no mixed feelings at all, M and I completely disliked it. We considered jumping back on a bus and skip Cuenca all at once. To start with, we arrived on a grey Sunday and the streets were literally empty. This made Cuenca’s town center look pretty…
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Baños, a city with millions (or so it seems) thermal baths
In some (most) places, I cannot stop taking pictures (borderline compulsive)… The light and the composition are simply perfect… Then you have some places (this remains rare!) where we have a lovely time but don’t get a chance to take any picture. For my defense though 1) Baños’ weather was outrageously horrible and light was…
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Megalithic Colombia: San Agustin
For once, I’ll spare you the hours spent on buses and taxis as by now you must have understood that every trip is a journey in itself and traveling in Colombia needs time. We made it in San Agustin where we found a wonderful hostel. The owners made us feel at home right away and…
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Colorful Colombia: Desierto de la Tatacoa
After an 8-hour bus journey and an overnight in Neiva, we easily found a jeep that took us to the desert of Tatacoa. What a delight to be again surrounded by heat and sun! Priceless! Our time in Salento might have been great but we were happy to leave the cooler weather behind. We reached…
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Exotic Colombia: Salento
After another long journey, 12 hours, 3 buses and an almost sleepless night (no Alex, we are still not looking into buying a bike), we arrived early (indecently early) in Salento. This quiet village in the Zona Cafetera region was very sleepy when we got off the bus but it looked promising. Our bus driver,…
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Paisa Colombia: Medellín and Guatape
What to say about Medellin? From reading books on the Medellín Cartel, I was intrigued. What could a city look like post-cartel? How could it move into a new era? We arrived with an open-minded attitude and after bumping into our German friend from our Cabo de la Vela adventure (love those unexpected encounters that…
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Adventurous Colombia: Cabo de la Vela and Punta Gallinas
When people told us that it would take time to reach Cabo de la Vela, they were not joking. Come on, this cannot be that bad, this is only 400 kilometers, we thought. It turned out that everything, up there, goes much slower than in the rest of the country. It took us three days,…
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Bella Colombia: Cartagena or the place that helped me beat my homesickness!
We duly arrived in Cartagena (what a beautiful city) where we officially started our South American exploration and Houston, we have a problem… I. Haven’t. Been. Able. To. Feel. Any. Enthusiasm. Nor. Excitement! (YET). How does she dare feeling that way, you are probably wondering. Don’t worry, many people are. They believe that, since I’m living…
Frenchie Gone Exploring 