English After four months and a half we have finally got back home! We arrived at Venice airport safe, tanned, and thin (-5 kg Alvise, -2 kg Chiara). It was really strange to be back at Venice airport and listening to people speaking italian rather than spanish. Many feelings and thoughts are occupying our minds. We think we had a fantastic trip and met really interesting people, but actually we are happy to be at home after all this time. Of course, as soon as we arrived in Italy our first priority was guess what? Food!... anyway, before getting fat again, let’s update the blog about our last stop: Cuba. 'Vamos bien!' These are the first words we read on an advertisement, as soon as we arrived in Cuba, while going by taxi from the airport ... read more

English La Paz Our visit in Brasil was really a relaxing break before going back to the less confortable country of Bolivia. We enjoyed a lot the beaches, the atmosphere and the people in Brasil, but we had to go on with our trip. Actually, we were really looking forward to the tough life on the Andes at 4000 meters of altitude... we missed Bolivia. From Salvador Bahia we decided to catch the plane to Sao Paolo instead of going through a bus trip of 33 hours... actually the plane ticket turned out to be even cheaper, so why not? The plane, in reality, was so cheap for some reason: departure from Salvador at 3.00 a.m. and arrival at Sao Paolo at 6.00 a.m. In Sao Paolo of course we stopped again at Toninelli's place, we ... read more

English With “only” six hours of bus we could reach from São Paolo one of the best attraction we were dreaming of during our trip. However, it took us two days to leave the comfortable Toninelli’s house and the Parmigiano… Rio is called the cidade meravilhosa by the Brazilians for some more than justified reasons. In this city nature and civilization combine together in a dramatic and harmonious setting. Rio is made of contrasts: astonishing beaches and mountains of unusual shape, tropical forests and horrible concrete buildings, luxurious neighborhoods and favelas, peace and caos, happiness, music and violence. It is difficult remain indifferent to such an disordered and amazing scenario. In Rio we chose one of the best neighborhoods to stay: Ipanema, famous for the beaches and the song “The girl of Ipanema”. In comparison to ... read more

From the last time we have showed you the most amazing part of Bolivia, the Salar de Uyuni, lagunas, all landscapes that we have visited with a jeep tour from Tupiza. Now we are still in Bolivia, we have seen some cities, Potosi, Sucre (with the market of Tarrabuco) and arrived to Santa Cruz. This last one is not really a great place, near the jungle and with a very humid climate, but the reason to be here is to catch a flight to Brasil. Bolivia is very beautiful, but not so easy to travel. We will talk here about the other side of Bolivia... When we arrived in Uyuni from the tour we decided to rest for a day because sitting in a jeep for 4 days in a row at this altitude and with ... read more

English We are now in Bolivia! We arrived here by crossing the border with Argentina from La Quiaca. Visiting La Quiaca, the northest part of Argentina, is one of the cool (or maybe silly?) things that one could do together with visiting the southern most part of Argentina, Ushuaia (more than 5000 km far south). Argentinian buses do not dare to cross the border and have problems through the bad gravel roads of Bolivia, so they left us before the border just to say 'And now on foot!'. So we grabbed our backpacks and started to walk for about one km to cross the border (after having our last argentinan milanesa con papas fritas of course...). It was a bit hard since we were at 3500 meters of altitude and with so much weight you can ... read more