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Here you can read short updates of our whereabouts.
Corruption is (hopefully) not the first thing you think about when you think about Latin America, but everybody knows it is happening here. Before we arrived here, we were a bit worried about it expecting to encounter it all the time. But all the way from Mexico to Colombia we … Read more
At the 2nd of February when Binkie didn’t need to go to the vet for a whole week we finally had the opportunity to explore Ecuador. We first went to Mitad del Mundo. Here you can find the equator, point zero between North and South. They have build a small … Read more
January started festive with a New Years carnival in Pasto. We enjoyed the music, the rhythm and the bright colours! Although neither of us can dance, we couldn’t help but move to the rhythm, although probably completely off beat 🙂 After this cheerful encounter we moved on to our last … Read more
After we left Bogota our first destination was the town Guatape. This colourful town has 3D murals which made it different form the many other towns with the regular murals without any dept or relief. But this town is mostly famous because of a very big rock called El Penon. … Read more
Los Nevados is a national park in a high altitude volcanic area and has an area of 583km2. The volcano Nevado del Ruiz is the most prominent one. We didn’t go in to the NP as it is very expensive and you are only allowed to access a small part … Read more
Since Guatemala we have seen coffee plants on a regular basis. sometimes in small coffee fields, and on other occasions in huge coffee plantations. So, effectively in all of Central America coffee is produced, and Colombia is no exception. in fact, Colombia is one of the biggest producers of coffee. … Read more
Our first tropical xmas, not missing the cold 😉
After we left Playa de Belen we drove more inland, we went off the beaten track as they say. Online we had found a nice road to drive so we did and it lead us to the small town of Cepita. A cute little town where tourists, especially foreigners, are … Read more
Mid October we left Central America (CA). So time for some evaluation 🙂 We arrived in Mexico on the 20th of January. Now, Mexico isn’t counted as being part of Central or South America, officially it belongs to the North American continent. But it is considered part of Latin America … Read more
The first 10 days of October we spend in and around Panama city. We finally received our parcel with our new drives licences, phone and tablet, even though DHL managed to cause a delay of a week in Panama city, because one employee was sick… Import fees and custom fees … Read more