Since I had planned to start Spanish classes in Cusco around Monday, I left Lima saturday on a 22 hour busride through to Andean mountains to get to Cusco. I had read about altitude sickness but I had no idea what it would be like and if I would suffer from it. Turns out going… Read More Peru: Cusco, Pisac, Maras
Getting to my next country wasn’t the easiest task. I did not realize how insane the Sao Paulo traffic would get and calculating to be 3 hours in advance for a 40 minute trip to the airport was apparently not enough time, so I ended up missing my flight. I arrived 10 minutes late for… Read More arriving in Peru: Lima
I had been warned about Sao Paulo by countless people that I had met in the previous weeks who had visited the city, but also by natives that came from Sao Paulo. Don’t go there, it’s boring, it’s dirty, it’s full of cars, it’s for businesspeople, there’s no beach, there’s only museums… blablabla. Things Flemish… Read More Brazil: São Paulo
Chapada Diamantina is one of Brazil’s largest nature park. It used to be a diamond mining area but those activities were abruptly stopped by the government in the end of the 80’s. When we were in Lençois, the largest town at the Chapada, we heard this traumatized many people for who the diamond mining business… Read More Brazil: Chapada Diamantina
We were going to go to Morro de Sao Paulo, an island on the other side of the bay (Salvador has the biggest atlantic bay by the way!) There were two ways to get there, a direct boat for tourists which was really expensive (but a lot shorter, only 2 hours) or going all… Read More Brazil: Morro de sao paulo & Itacaré
Salvador and to a larger extent Bahia (the state) is definitely a different kind of Brazil than what I had seen the week before. I felt quite often like I was in Africa, a feeling that a lot of people we met shared. Part of the feeling was because of the kind people that walked… Read More Brazil: Salvador
And we’re OFF to South-America!!! In an attempt to keep a travel blog I’ll try to keep updating where I am and what I’ve done in the past days. It’ll probably be quite detailed since I don’t know how to NOT be detailed, which also means it’ll be updated with a certain delay, but i’d… Read More Brazil: Rio
I’m at a total loss for words. 4 months with one bag and I have SPACE LEFT and there is nothing that comes to mind that I’m thinking; okay, so I can now take this too! I never thought someone like me would say this but; starting on time works! 3 weeks ago I started… Read More packing… like a boss!
Moord en brand werd er de voorbije weken wereldwijd geschreeuwd over onze privacy. De recentste onthullingen van het Cyber Command van de VS, onder leiding van de National Security Agency (NSA), laten dan ook een wrange smaak na over wat er allemaal te grijpen valt online. Dit waren zaken die we al in 2001 na… Read More Snowden leaks: de VS’s geheime Offensive Cyber Effect Operations
Day 7 After almost 4 days of only having talked to Palestinians, or Israeli which were critical of their own politics, we went to the Jewish settlement Alon Svut in the westbank. Maybe not the best timing…. But maybe also not bad to see a total juxtaposition of viewpoints. When we first came in, it… Read More Israel and the Palestinian Territories: the last days
Nathalie Van Raemdonck 