So on Friday 26th June we went into Colombia really being amazed from the friendliness of the people from the very first moment on. First we made a stop in the City of Cali which is said to be the salsa-mekka of Columbia. Indeed it has a sprawling nightlife and people love to dance. And the really can dance, which would have required more salsa-skills from us. However we did our best and had a lot of fun there... So on Sunday we even got early and went on a 12 hours busride to Bogota - a real highlight. We got a couchsurfing host by Hernan. This really great guy offered us more than just a place to stay over for 4 nights. We had a lot of fun with him and he showed us really ... read more

Finally I managed it to re-upload the lost photos of Bolivia one... Ok we left Sao Paulo on the 22nd of June and went on 20hrs busride to Corumba at the boarder to Bolivia. The border crossing was literally like stepping into another world. I never experienced a difference like that between two neighbour countries before, as we suddenly found ourselves in a much poorer country with a significantly different culture and lifestyle. We only spent the afternoon in the bolivian border village of Quijarro in order to watch the Champion's league finals (which was actually quite difficult to manage there) and then we went on a overnight-train-ride to rainy Santa Cruz. Nice city, but due to the bad weather we only spent one night there and then we went on a really exhausting 16hrs bumpy-overnight-busride ... read more

We just spent a night in Copacabana after arriving and got up early the next day to catch the 8.30 boat to Isla del Sol. This little Island in the huge lake Titicaka is really very nice! Landscape is really beautiful - just have a look at the pictures. We did the nice one-day walk from the northern end of the island to the southern end. It is not really a long one and even though the Lake and the Island are at some more than 3500m the walk is not too strenous. On the way back the boat stops at some floating island (set up as a demonstration only). Floating islands on the Peruvian side are supposed to be much bigger tough. All in all a really nice walk on isla del sol surrounded by ... read more

We arrived in La Paz on July 4th not having seen the saltflats due to the roadblocks. The city of La Paz is quite nice and interesting. I was pretty impressed when we went the way down from the nearby city El Alto having a great view over the whole city situated in a bowl surrounded by a stunning landscape. Life in La Paz is quite vivacious with a variety of cultural offer and lots of markets. On Saturday the huge folk festival "Gran Poder" took place with loads of colorfully dressed people dancing and marching down the streets accompanied by loud brass bandas from about 7am to 11pm. On the same day we went to watch the World Cup Qualifying Game between Bolivia and Venezuela to see how football feels at an altitude of 3650m ... read more

The Iguazu Falls: Some of them say they are marvellous... some of them say they are just another bunch of waterfalls. I have seen a lot of waterfalls so far on my travels and before I got to Iguazu I was not sure how impressive this would be gonna be. Actually it is another bunch of waterfalls. But it is a bunch that big, that it really impressed me a lot. It is like a whole landscape of waterfalls sourrounded by beautiful woods, rivers and valleys (I just uploaded a lot of different waterfall pictures as there are so many different ones. However it is difficult to show the beauty of the National park in pictures). And once you get to the viewpoint of the main falls, you get stunned by that impressive big waterfalls - ... read more