A true challenge would be to pack for a trip leaving all your electronic stuff behind. It might be possible, but I must admit I find it hard to believe there were times when I wouldn’t take my phone (simply because there were no mobile phones) or when my camera […]
If I hadn’t thrown away used notebooks, I guess I’d find many travel bucket lists scribbled down somewhere. They were short or long but all of them mentioned faraway well-known destinations that seemed totally inaccessible. I knew the names from the TV, some travel stories of my friends (not many), […]
Filled with dismembered rusty locomotives and cars, this cemetery is the place where trains found their final resting place. Located just 3 kilometers outside Uyuni town (3670 m. above see level), where most Flat Salts trips start, the train cemetery, a weird tourist attraction of leftover train skeletons is a […]
It might be hard to get from A to B through C: you can buy a ticket from A to C, you can get on in B, but you need a ticket from A, and it has to be bought in A… So we were standing in B, close to […]
If it hadn’t been for Charles who convinced us that the weather in the Simien Mountains might be good, and if it hadn’t been for our desire to do a mountain trek, and finally, if I hadn’t forgotten that the probable weather conditions in the Simien Mountains in July were […]
More and more people ask me what I eat here, in Peru and Bolivia, complaining that I don’t post enough food photos. Peruvian cuisine is considered to be one of the best on the continent, and to be honest I kind of regret I hadn’t stayed there longer. Here in […]