http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/2Brothers3Continents/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from 2Brothers3Continents en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:31:14 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:31:14 +0000 It has been long since we last posted something here. There is a reason for this The brothers are not on the road any more but it doesn't mean we don't travel at all So let's go for one more tripSince we split in Berlin October 2008 Claudio has been in Puebla Mexico. He moved in with his girl friend studied spanish started to work as a math teacher and study a master course on business ad http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/blog-452500.html Do you believe in the MEDIA The classical Greek philosopher Plato describe in his work The Republic a fictional dialog between His Teacher Socrates and his brother Glaucon. In this dialog Socrates uses the Metaphor of the Cave to describe that the reality is not always what you see. He exemplify with Prisoners in a cave that can only sees shadows during their whole lives not knowing they are s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/blog-399199.html Only a couple of minutes waiting in the special Hitchhiker spot at Vilnius and we got a ride. We were happy. Our destiny was showing it's bright side. It wasn't until afternoon it started to show it's dark side. The couple in the car took us a few kilometers ahead and dropped us off a few minutes latter they passed again by the same spot and decided to take us further. We were advancing very qui http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/blog-399162.html Our ride took us to the center of Vilnius just next to an Internet cafe that we could use to contact our host. Thanks for the ride. We checked our host phone number and and went for a night walk trying to find a public phone. The city center at night was beautiful the weather was great wasn't raining and wasn't very cold but the public phones were calling card only and we couldn't buy any http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/blog-399161.html We always heard about students backpacking around Europe in very low budget below 10 Euros a day. Even thou we heard all this stories we could never understand how they did it since Europe has the most expensive costs for transport and accommodation we have seen. So what is the enigma Only after 90000Km traveled in 3 years on the road we finally found outWe left Tallinn early in the morning http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Latvia/blog-371644.html We approached the border frightened was only when we got on the bus that we thought about the visa for Estonia. We checked the requirements for Latvia and Lithuania but not for Estonia A friendly girl on the bus called some friends to ask but couldn't get any information. If we needed a visa we were going to be in trouble Russia for sure would not let us go back and we would be locked in the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Estonia/blog-368691.html Early in the morning we ended our transsiberian journey. After 3 days in Irkutsk near lake Baikal and 4 great days and nights in the train enjoying beautiful scenarios over the windows we had to come back to real life or more precise backpacking life. As soon as stepped out of the train in Moscow we had a mission. Find a cheap place to stay. Soon we discovered why Moscow won the title of one of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/blog-346858.html The Transsiberian Train is a journey by itself. There are many travelers leaving their countries just to take the longest train ride in the world. To be precise we didn't ride across the Transsiberian line this one connects Moscow to Vladivostok. We crossed the Transmongolian line from Beijing in China over Mongolia finishing in Moscow The Transsiberian and Transmongolian join they journey arou http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/blog-336569.html I'm sorry Mongolia. I know you offer so many beautiful places to visit your people are so hospitable your plains so vast your lakes so clear in the summer horse riding festivals and in the winter ice skating on the lakes. So much to do so many square kilometers to enjoy. But after so long on the road we are tired with the expectancy of arrive home and restarting our jobs we have our minds http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-328058.html Claudio during the whole trip was the one worried about buying guide books checking information and planing the next part of the trip. Fernando was always more relaxed I don't think we have to buy them We can change our guide books with other travelers once in China. Convinced by Fernando we entered China without guide book. It would made a difference afterwards.Our trip to China started i http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-327763.html Four months later... we are together again Fernando and Claudio now in their world tour. Since Claudio went back to Brazil and Fernando studied in England a lot has happened.Claudio went back to his job and worked more 3 months all the time teased by Fernando's pictures about trips he did in Europe and north Africa. In our minds the image of the Australian backpacker from Portugal and the Eng http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-328055.html Happy anniversary In Vietnam we commemorate 3 years on the road and 50 countries visitedEveryone had told us that the traffic in Vietnam was crazy. From the border to Saigon you will take 3 hours for 100km They said. But as we have been in India before we wondered how much worse it could be. From the border to Saigon or Ho Chi Minh we did took 3 hours but the traffic was a surprise. Althoug http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-317065.html This entry we couldn't publish earlier because we were afraid of getting in trouble in the many Arab country's we have visited after Israel.Now is time to tell about our journey to the center of the 3 biggest religions in the worldThere is something very important we must state here before describing our experience in Israel. We write about injustices from the Israelis towards the Palestinian bu http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/blog-317235.html Since we started to travel around people told us Cambodia would be the most beautiful country on South East Asia. We're curious to see itWe entered in different dates since Claudio and Lili were driving Tzarina the motorbike slowly and Fernando Malin and Flavia were taking fast buses.After the the adventure of the transport over the border Fernando's team took buses after buses all the wa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/blog-309974.html Lets tell about our times in the most bombed country in the worldThanks again for the kindness of USA We left Thailand expecting a bit more adventure since there is no challenge in traveling Thailand. Thai is not bad just not challenging Laos started a bit different. We decided to do everything on our own we would save some money and have more exiting stories to tell. Stories about gettin http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/blog-302593.html There is a question that nontravelers always ask to the backpackers The famous Q What do you do the whole day I used to answer Nothing But it is not quite truth. We have at every single minute something to do. And if we don't we find something to do.One of this occasions we had to find something to do we started some researches. Actually we have many of themAfter staying in so many ho http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/blog-249090.html The first thing we noticed when we crossed the border was the difficulty of the Thai people to speak English. We didn't have any language trouble in Singapore or Malaysia. Communication outside the touristic places was bad. Just after the crossing we spend a few hours walking around the border city trying to find the bus station. If wasn't for an English speaking guy that took us on the back of hi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/blog-280963.html Walk from Singapore to Malaysia wasn't near as hard as we imagined. The subway takes you almost all the way to the border and the remaining part is like walking in a nice park. The immigration was also easy stamp out cross the causeway and stamp in. No surprises and no visas Ahhh... South East Asia I'm Loving it.We new that South East Asia was a backpacker paradise. But now we are finally un http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/blog-280955.html It's amazing how you can get used to situations that you thought impossible to handle before. Was like this with the dirt in India after our third month we couldn't almost even see it anymore becomes part of you. This is broken only when you change situation. And what a change From a country with piles of garbage and sewage everywhere to a country that bubble gum is forbidden because the stree http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Singapore/blog-268012.html Reading the book 11 minutes from Paulo Coelho there is a passage where the protagonist and her husbandtobe shit I shouldn't tell the end come up with a discussion about sacred sex. They mention about times in ancient Greece or Rome where sex was treated as sacred. Religious rituals included sex even girls to be able to get married had to make sex with a stranger before the marriage I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-245152.html