Nathalie Van Raemdonck

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  • Cyberinterventie in Syrië, een potentieel gevaarlijk precedent

    (voorheen verschenen in Mo*) Sinds enkele dagen woedt er een grotendeels geheime discussie in de Amerikaanse veiligheidsraad om Amerika’s cyberwapens in te zetten in de burgeroorlog in Syrië. Er gaan in de VS al langer stemmen op voor een humanitaire interventie in Syrië, en toen er chemische wapens gebruikt werden tegen de bevolking, stond de…

  • the improbability of cheap healthy food in America

    Going grocery shopping in the US has given me a new perspective on the perverse effects of a TRUE free market system that I never fully experienced in Europe. I have been absolutely shocked by the quality of food. Here the logic applies of “you get what you pay, if you pay less, you get…

  • Brazil: Belo Horizonte

    Belo Horizonte was a special part of my trip to Brazil, and I stayed about a month in total with my friend Luiza’s family after travelling through Peru and Bolivia. So it was Luiza who planted the seed of going to Brazil for me. There were other influences as well, but after living with Luiza…

  • Bolivia: Salt Flats

    Salt Flats I left for Uyuni alone on Saturday evening, since I absolutely still had to do the salt flats and time was starting to run out. The busride to this middle of nowhere was absolutely dreadful. I was quite ill, feverish and had some stomach problems, the bus broke down at 3am (apparently not…

  • Bolivia: Death road

    After hearing so many backpackers rave about it in La Paz, me and my travel companions decided to cycle the Death Road. The death road used to be the “Most Dangerous Road In The World”. Several hundreds of people die every year falling into the ravine from the narrow road that is really not made…

  • Bolivia: La Paz

    It was time to go to La Paz, at 3.600m the highest located capital in the world. They say La Paz is a bowl, you could almost say it’s located in a very wide canyon, and driving into the city from the top gave an incredible view that immediately woke you up.  I took the…

  • Bolivia: Copacabana & Isla del Sol

    When I decided it was time to leave Cusco, I had found 2 other solo travellers that would be my travel companions to Bolivia. Alek, a lovely Canadian that had been staying in the Kokopelli hostel for a few weeks as well, and Elle, an American girl who amazed us with her beer pong skillz…