Ik werd thuis veel over Colombia gewaarschuwd. Uitgenodigd door een vriend die in Bogota woont, en nieuwsgierig naar dit land waar ik zo weinig van weet, reisde ik toch af naar het land van magico realismo. ik genoot intens van de prachtige natuur. Colombia heeft het allemaal, de bergen, de caraibische stranden, de jungle, de… Read More [COLOMBIA] Veiligheid, de grens tussen gevoel en feit.
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. 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 in Amsterdam, I wasn’t ready to… Read More Brazil: Belo Horizonte
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 hell hole was absolutely dreadful. I was quite ill, feverish and had some stomach problems, the bus broke down… Read More Bolivia: Salt Flats
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 of amazed us with her beer pong skillz… Read More Bolivia: Copacabana & Isla del Sol
Volunteering at the hostel in Cusco was incredibly fun, and gave me a certain routine. Having a homebase and a steady friend circle of people that were also volunteering or staying a longer time felt comfortable. I couldn’t (and shouldn’t) stay too long however, since it wasn’t real life, and was almost too comfortable that… Read More Last Days in Cusco
On Wednesday very early in the morning my Inca trail started. The Inca trail is a 50km hike through the mountains towards the well known Inca site of Machu Picchu. It is not the only Inca trail, there are thousands of kilometers of paths created by the Inca all throughout South-America, but this is the… Read More Peru: Inca Trail
So as I mentioned in the previous post, I had made the decision to explore Peru instead of staying in Cusco to learn Spanish. The hop-on-hop-off bus had only been running for a few months but it was a really nice company. It went from Lima to Cusco in 7 days and then ran from… Read More Peru: hopping around
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
Nathalie Van Raemdonck 