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 it’s churches and squares. But the main reason why this place attracts so many people is the Inca site Machu Pichu. It might even be the biggest must see place in whole South America. Something ... read more

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 Liberia. On our way the bus was stopped and some policemen went inside to check peoples identification. When he looked in my passport he said I had to leave the bus. I had no idea ... read more

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 the change in Belizian dollars. An easy and cheap way to change money. With my new Belizian dollars I paid the busride to San Ignacio and found very quickly a place where I wanted to ... read more

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 landscape passing by. Besides that it feels good to travel and to be on the move, not staying a minute to long at the same place. Being joyful in a rotten place When I arrived ... read more

Arriving in the Hood Departing on Sunday evening from Taiwan and arriving on Sunday evening at San Fransisco. Because of the time difference my Sunday was a long one. From the airport at San Fransisco I took a train to the location of my hostel. Walking through the neighbourhood made me soon realize this was one that makes you walk a pace faster. It is what you see in movies. People hanging around looking not so nice and the atmosphere was not very pretty. But well, I just walked and eventually reached the hostel, which is really good by the way. Very clean, nice people (the travellers as well as the staff), good breakfast with delicious bagels and everything very clean. Eventually I became to be a sort of thankful to stay in this neighbourhood because ... read more