We never really felt home sick during our trip. However, during the end of our stay in South America I felt a bit nostalgic about my home country Austria and was very much looking forward to coming back. One thing I was dreaming about was spending a few days hiking through the Austrian mountains. Once... Continue Reading →
15 countries in 10 months - our dream of travelling the world came true. Now we are back home, pondering what to make out of all those impressions, memories, new friendships and pictures we took. As part of this process we would like to try and summarize a few thought concepts that seem more important... Continue Reading →
The last country to visit during our close to 10 months trip was Colombia. Its beautiful landscapes and warm and friendly people definitely put the country in a top spot of the places we liked most. As with most other countries we visited, we would like to collect our thoughts and observations about Colombia in... Continue Reading →
Here we go again... Our top impressions for the last country of our current trip. Last but absolutely not least: Viva Colombia!
Through a series of "coincidences" I ended up scrapping the last week of our travel itinerary in Colombia and spontaneously bought a flight to Putumayo, a province bordering Ecuador and Peru in Colombia's selva or rainforest area. (Thanks again Niki! 🙂 ) My plan The one thing I am planning to do hear: drinking a... Continue Reading →
Colombia has two coastlines, the Pacific to the west and the Caribbean to the north-east. Due to lack of time and also some security concern we decided to skip the Pacific and focus on the Caribbean. It turns out this was a fantastic choice! 🙂 We had an amazing time in Cartagena, Santa Marta, Minca... Continue Reading →
Mompox - a place of history, literature and imagination. Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez is said to have used it as a reference for Macondo, the main town of his classic novel 100 Years of Solitude (defitine reading recommendation by the way!). Visitors of Mompox can easily imagine sitting here, right next to the beautiful river, letting... Continue Reading →
Cartagena is a beautiful town of about a million people on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Once an important harbour, many people came here during the domestic crisis of the last decades to find peace. Nowadays it is a bustling city of about 1m people as well as (at least the old town) a magnet... Continue Reading →
Chile was one of the countries we never really planned to visit during our trip. However, when we tried to find the cheapest flight from southern Bolivia to northern Colombia we ended up with a flight from Iquique in North-Chile. It was not the best connection, given we had to fly 1.500km into the exactly... Continue Reading →
Bolivia, a country of striking beauty is any photographer's dream. We certainly had an amazing time exploring various parts of the country and getting to know the people. Below we include some more and some some less stereotypical impressions of our three week journey through Bolivia:
Tanja & Christoph on the Road 