From Potosi I went to Sucre and stayed there two nights. It is three hours from Potosi by bus and a very nice town with crisp white buildings. It is funny because I noticed the confidence of the people. They are proud of their town. Usually when I search for a place to stay I look in my guidebook and pick one where I want to go. This time there was no place that responded to my interest. So when I was at the busterminal I asked the taxidriver to drop me off in the center of the city. The first [View Full Entry]

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On my way to Bolivia From Puno I took the bus to Bolivia. It was an incredible ride alongside lake Titicaca. After crossing the border I had to change buses at Copacabana. So I had a walk around and found a place to sit and chat with other travellers. It is a nice peaceful place, but my plan was to go to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. So after a ride we finally entered La Paz and it was beautiful to see the center of the city lying there in the valley surrounded by mountains. The bus dropped me in [View Full Entry]

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Reaching Machu Pichu turns out to be an adventure by itself From Nasca I went to Cusco and this took me fifteen hours by bus. Luckily I could sleep during the night for a couple of hours during the ride. After arriving at Cusco I met a Dutch girl who wanted to go to the same hostel as me and we shared a taxi to get there. The hostel was quite nice because it was situated in an old colonial building. It was also a nice place to meet interesting people. The town Cusco is a special place as well. With [View Full Entry]

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Comfy flight in Business class to Peru From Panama I flew to Lima in Peru. I was given a seat in the business class section. So during the flight I had a full three course meal. It was so delicious. They asked if I wanted extra peanut crumbles on my desert or some more chocolate or caramel sauce and if I wanted to eat something extra. I really enjoyed it. Nice to have such comfort for once. The seats were twice my size and I had nice company sitting next to me. It was a lady from Bolivia and she told [View Full Entry]

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Happy after finally receiving the right stamp Just when I was about to leave Leon in Nicaragua I met a guy from the U.S. He liked my plan of taking the local buses to Costa Rica. So he decided to join me. We had to change bus several times before we got to the border with Costa Rica. At the Nicaraguan side we got the exit stamp and on the Costa Rican side we received the stamp to enter Costa Rica, at least that is what we thought. From the border we took a bus in the direction of the town [View Full Entry]

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I was only for a short time back in Guatemala. From Livingston I went by boat to Rio Dulce. The beauty of the forest passed by and I enjoyed the boatride a lot. After spending one night in Rio Dulce I went back to Guatemala city to catch the international bus to San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. The next day I walked into the old part of the city center. It was quite a long walk but I liked it because while walking you can see what is happening on the streets. There was a huge market covered by [View Full Entry]

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Tourist hassle From Lanquin I went to a small town Flores. This was the first time I took one of the tourist shuttles. So the busride was less interesting but surely much faster. After six or seven hours we reached the destination. But just before the busdriver stopped at an ATM nearby and said the ATM’s at Flores didn’t work. Kind of strange, especially when I saw later that the ATM’s did work. The guy that stepped in the bus said he was from the same company and wanted to drop us at a hostel and most people followed him. Of [View Full Entry]

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Welcomed by lightning The day after visiting Tikal I went to Belize. In the early morning I walked to Santa Elena, a small town near Flores, and took the bus to the border of Belize. In the bus I met a girl and a guy from France. It was interesting to hear about her stories when she worked for a couple of years in Africa for an NGO. We crossed the border with Belize and had to walk for a while to get to the bus terminal. At the busterminal I bought a coffee by paying with American dollars and received [View Full Entry]

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Keep on moving In Quetzaltenango I met a guy from Switzerland and we walked around the city the same afternoon. One of the most interesting places was the marked. With so many stalls with food, shoes and clothes. In the evening we met two English girls and we went to an Indian restaurant. I was surprised there even was one. The food was delicious and it was fun to talk about travelling. The next day I went by bus to Huehuetenango. Every time on the bus it is so much fun to look around what’s happening and look at the beautiful [View Full Entry]

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Flying on probably the safest day of the year. Hola! At this moment I am in Guatemala. Yes, I can hear you thinking: a new continent every week? Well it sure lookes like it. But probably I will stay for a while in Central America. In the late evening of the 10th of September I left San Fransisco and flew on the 11th of September into Guatemala City….This is the second time I hear you thinking. Flying on 11th of September in the States?? Well probably it is the safest day, because when you are a terrorist you wouldn’t plan an [View Full Entry]

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