Category: South-America
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Peru: Inca Trail
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…
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Peru: hopping around
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…
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Peru: Cusco, Pisac, Maras
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…
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arriving in Peru: Lima
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…
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Brazil: São Paulo
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…
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Brazil: Chapada Diamantina
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…
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Brazil: Morro de sao paulo & Itacaré
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…
Nathalie Van Raemdonck 