goingsouth-america

27.12.2018 - 04.01.2019 After an endlessly long flight journey via Casablanca and Cairo, we finally arrive in Dahab. We spend the last days of our trip in a relaxed manner in...

December 19, 2018 and December 20, 2018 We are facing another long flight with an almost 10-hour layover in Santiago de Chile. Unfortunately, it's in the middle of the night and...

13.12.-18.12. 2018 We take the bus to Iquique via Calama to relax. The first time ever that we have nothing planned - except lying in the sun and reading. The...

December 8, 2018 Uyuni, a city in the sand. We take the first bus we find and store our luggage in the hostel. Immediately after, we look for our next excursion. It will be to...

12/03/2018 As mentioned before, Carsten has done his best convincing and thus sealed our attempt to climb Huayna Potosi ('young mountain'). In the morning, we meet Owen and our...

30.11.2018 After enjoying a small but delicious breakfast, we embark on our first journey with the Teleferico. This network of cable cars stretches across the entire city with...

November 25, 2018 Arequipa, the always warm and very dry city, welcomes us early in the morning on the bus. Once again, we were able to split up on the bus so that each person...

16th & 17th November 2018 After 15 hours of winding roads, we arrive in the afternoon at our hostel in Cusco, feeling a little weary but with a great view. We decide...

13.11.2018 The small desert town of Paracas is completely geared towards tourism. The agencies line up side by side on the main street and compete for customers. After our...

10.11.2018 Halb sechs am Morgen kommen wir mit unserem Nachtbus in Lima an. Direkt nach dem Erwachen müssen wir den Bus an einer Haltestelle im Stadtzentrum verlassen....

03.11.2018 2 o'clock in the morning. The bus suddenly stops and we wake up. 'VAMOS' echoes. Let's go. We have arrived at the border to Peru. The view from the window reveals the...

11/01/2018 We crave Banana Pancakes! Unfortunately, it's not that easy to find a shop in Cuenca that is open and can give us change of 20 dollars, especially in the 'early'...

October 27, 2018 We met up with three of our dive buddies the night before. A couple from England and a Belgian. Together, we're going to explore the island by taxi. There's so...

UPDATE: Under 'Map' (see entries and photos) you can now track our travel route geographically. UPDATE: Our inquiries with Avianca regarding ticket refunds have been partially...

10/20/2018 The journey to Baños goes smoothly. After breakfast, we immediately catch every bus. We don't go to the ticket counter anymore, but straight to the buses. There, we...

16/10/2018 The next morning, we set out in search of a sports shop. A little birdie had told us that trying to buy snorkeling equipment on the Galapagos Islands would either...

11.10.2018 We spend a relaxed day in the Parque de Carolina, which houses a small but beautiful botanical garden. Several greenhouses there focus on different themes. ...

Center of the world? Why? Are they megalomaniacs here? No. In fact, Quito is located almost exactly on the equator as the highest capital in the world at 2850 meters (Zugspitze...

Tja, so wirklich können wir hier gar kein Fazit ziehen - außer: Wir kommen wieder! Kolumbien ist einfach ein riesiges, unglaublich abwechslungsreiches und schönes Land, dass man...

08.10.2018 After our own cooked breakfast, we set off for the border town of Ipiales. We had originally planned to travel with the 'Engländers', but they had decided to leave...

Parque Caldas with the Cathedral

10/3/2018 In the early morning, after a rather sparse breakfast, we set off westward - towards the mountains. On the way out of Bogota, we got our first live glimpse of the...

01.10.2018 After leaving Berlin Tegel, we make a stopover in London. 3 hours layover. Enough time for everything. Think again... While processing our paperwork, the nice...