Buenos Aires.. 25th of June I got down to the busterminal in Mendoza around 10am and heard the next bus would go at 2pm, so I settled down at a cafetaria. What I did in those hours? Eating, drinking, reading, buying food, water and a newspaper for in the bus, called KLM to varify my flight, which was still in process and that was about it.. I reckoned the bustrip would take 24 hours, but I was wrong and arrived safely and with 2 hours of sleep in Buenos Aires around 7am. Next I took a cab into the city and [View Full Entry]

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Hee mates! I´ve arrived in Argentina. Passing the tops of the Andes, through all the beautiful mountains and seeing everywhere around me, snow.. Couldn´t stop dreaming about putting on skies again and hoppa get to know those mountains. However, my destintion was Mendoza. It´s quite cold around here and the city isn´t the most pretty one I´ve seen. But I love the wine they serve here. Monday I went to some Bodegas and tried some different wines: loved it.. Today, the 24th of June, I´m starting to think about my flight back.. I´ll be taking a plane from Buenos Aires the [View Full Entry]

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Amigos! I left San Pedro last thursday 12th of June after a good night out. After a dreadful trip in the bus I finally arrived Fridaymorning 7am in La Serena, which turned out to be a very boring town, so I left the very next Sunday to visit Santiago. Santiago, wonderful Santiago.. I really love this city for its organisation although it´s enormous. The well-planned infrastructure of Santiago with its delightful metro-system make my stay here a blessing and really easy. I can go to many places in the city in a really short notice and just for 380 pesos. Sundaynight [View Full Entry]

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Monday 09-06: After leaving Arica at 10pm, I arrived in San Pedro the next morning around 11am. This day I didn{t feel like doing anything active so I settled down in a laid-back hostal (San Pedro lives on tourist-incomes so it can get quite expensive..) and booked some tours for the following two days also I reserved a place to go star-watching the same night, unfortunately, this didn{t go through due to clouds. In the afternoon, I was watching Netherlands vs Italy which I really enjoyed! Tuesday 10-06: At 9am I arranged a trip into one of the valley´s to go [View Full Entry]

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Border crossing from Peru to Chile was more official than I yet had experienced, but no problems anyway.. Well, I arrived in Arica around 5pm after which I wanted to get some chilean pesos.. But what is a normal sum to walk with? Without having a clue how much things cost and not having thought about it in the 7 hours bus and 1 hour taxi trip to Arica, because I was reading a really great book, I was standing in front of the atm and got out 5000 pesos which, after paying the cab-driver 1200 pesos for going to the [View Full Entry]

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After travelling all the way from La Paz to Arequipa I finally arrived around 8pm. The trip included a border crossing where we also had to change buses. I haven´t had such a bordercrossing as this one yet and I guess it´s good to know that it can get this badly organized. Got of the bus at the Bolivian side and hardly had I stepped on firm soil when the first ´cab´ drivers asked me if I needed a right over the border. But, first things first, getting my stamp from migration, freaking queue, lots of peruvians and bolivians wanted to [View Full Entry]

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La Paz, I have to admit that my first impression was negative: too many people, no organisation, traffic is a chaos. However, after spending some hours in the city and exploring the little streets and old buildings I certainly have to change my opinion, there is more to this city than meets the eye. This said I go to Arequipa tomorrow and so will be leaving this city a day earlier than planned. All big cities in South-Amerika, that I´ve visited, are really exhausting: Quito, Lima, La Paz.. I´m wondering how Santiago and Buenos Aires will be like. I can say [View Full Entry]

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My last day in Cusco was a great day, the whole day there were festivities going on, loads of Peruvians on the plaza, enough to see. In the evening I ended up in an Irish pub where I ate wonderful nachos and talked several hours with the people around. At a certain point we had a blackout, so that was good fun, sitting in a pub with candles everywhere. Next morning, after sleeping 6 hours, I got on the bus to the lake titicaca where I arrived 7 hours later. After dropping my bags at the hostal I walked up to [View Full Entry]

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Machu Picchu!!! woohoo! However, I´ll start by telling somthing about the last few days which also include places like Cuzco, Pisac and Ollantaytambo. after leaving Nazca with a nightbus, which was actually quite luxurious, I arrived in Cuzco arond 11am and found my hostal within an hour. After that, I walked through the amazing cobble-stoned steets of Cuzco, the whole city breaths it Inca-like past. Nowadays, the streets are filled with tourists, however, on my first day I spend a few hours with a peruvian guy which I met in Trujillo, so I had some new experiences again with the peruvian [View Full Entry]

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Nazca woohoo! The main reason for tourists to come to Nazca are the lines. The Nazca lines were made by the Nazca-culture (and later on the Wari-culture ruled over this area). Anyway, the only good way to see the lines is by plane (sobrevuelo) so I arranged that, which of course was really expensive in comparison to other things.. The guide got me from my Hotel around 7.30am and after seeing that there was a lot of fog over the desert I needed to wait before things started to get better... That´s why we were first brought to the cemetery of [View Full Entry]

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