mundolandia

So now it has been over eleven months and we are actually in Chile. Another one of those border crossings where a lot has changed. Here it is not only much more expensive, but...

From La Paz we continue to Potosi, a former important mining town that still retains some of the old splendor and wealth of ancient times. The city is characterized by cerro...

Choro

From Corumba we cross the Brazilian-Bolivian border and wait on the Bolivian side for our train, which takes us from Puerto Quijarro to Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The train moves...

The Pantanal is a large wetland consisting of rivers, lakes, and lagoons. It is located in the southwest of Brazil in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Currently, it is the dry...

Here in the Brazilian state of Paraná, we are at the tri-border area of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. In the southern part of the country, you can feel the strong European...

We spend a good week in Rio and at the beginning we get an endorphin rush when we arrive. We have chosen accommodation in one of the many pacified favelas, and it's a hit again!...

We have decided to fly from Manaus to Salvador da Bahia as the journey over land or water is very long and our trip is slowly coming to an end. Flying saves a lot of time in...

Bogota

Our journey takes us to Campoalegre, a small town in the province of Huila in Colombia. Here, we will spend almost a month as volunteer helpers in a foundation named...

What comes to mind first when you think of the city of Medellin? Probably something related to Pablo Escobar, drugs, and high crime rates. All of that is in the past, and...

Here our journey ended in the sailboat from Panama. Cartagena is a city in the Colombian Caribbean, located in the northern part of the country. The main attraction is the...

From San Jose, the three of us continue to Panama City. Unfortunately, Christian had to fly back to Germany from San Jose, but Bina is still accompanying us until Colombia. The...

We spend one night in the capital city of San Jose and experience a small cultural shock. Because here in Costa Rica, and especially in the capital, everything is a bit...

We only get to know Honduras and Nicaragua briefly because we don't have much time until our date in Costa Rica 😚 In Honduras, we head straight to the Caribbean island of Utila...

From Antigua we take a chicken bus to Lake Atitlan, a beautiful lake surrounded by volcanoes and mountains. We have chosen the village of San Juan La Laguna, where we can take...

From Semuc Champey we drive to Antigua. Again, a long and very exhausting journey. The traffic in Guatemala City is insane, we are stuck in traffic for about 4 hours. Our...

Tikal Ruins

Belize is a tiny country on the Caribbean coast, south of Mexico. Besides the coast, the country is mainly jungle. We made a quick stop here on our way to Guatemala. From Belize...

We didn't warm up to Tulum... maybe it was because we both had a stomach infection or maybe it was the unfriendly hostel (the first unpleasant hostel in Mexico) or maybe it was...

So this is it - our first Caribbean island! You can reach Cozumel from Playa del Carmen (which is terrible, like the little sister of Cancun, absolutely awful) by ferry, and the...

In the middle of the jungle in Chiapas are the ruins of a once powerful Mayan dynasty. Given the size of the ruins, it's hard to believe that only a fraction has been uncovered....

A night bus takes us from Puerto Escondido over a well-paved but very curvy road to Chiapas, the neighboring state of Oaxaca. Our destination San Cristobal de las Casas is...

Our school with accommodation

Nach einem horrorlangen Flug von Christchurch über Sydney und L.A. landen wir totmüde in Mexikos Hauptstadt. Wir sind voller Vorfreude und unser Couchsurf-Gastgeber Arturo holt...

This time we are doing wwoofing near Christchurch on Banks Peninsula. The campground where we work and live for 2 weeks is located in Okuti Valley, next to the sleepy town of...

Oamaru is a small, very Victorian town north of Dunedin. It is definitely the most beautiful town we have seen in New Zealand. The Victorian and steampunk-influenced theme has...

Lake Wakatipu Glenorchy

Wellington is the capital of New Zealand located in the south of the North Island. It is small but we like it much better than Auckland because it is more colorful and dynamic....

The four-day northern circuit hike in Tongariro National Park starts in Whakapapa village. We are in New Zealand's oldest national park and the fourth oldest in the world. The...