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Las Galeras. The small inconspicuous fishing village on the tip of the Samana Peninsula is reached by a small pickup truck. If you're not claustrophobic, feel free to try it,...

Unser Flug von Santiago de Chile nach Punta Cana hatte es in sich. Erst war da die Verspätung von drei Stunden am Flughafen von Lima...ich könnte jetzt behaupten, daß es kein...

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September 11, 1973, not in the United States, but also a Tuesday. La Moneda, the government building in Chile's capital, is bombed by rockets from its own military. Salvador...

Imagine driving into the driest desert in the world and what do you definitely not expect? First: Few tourists and low prices and Second: Rain! Well, the first didn't happen,...

Irrigation channel in Santa Cruz Where the yellow sand slowly transforms into brown soil and fir trees compete cautiously with tall palm trees, there is a place that only...

'People love twilight more than the bright day, and it is in twilight that ghosts appear' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Even as a child, I loved ghost stories. The...

The gaze of innocence. But the soul is demonic. The Chilean dove, the feathered evil! At the terminal in Tacna, on the Peruvian side, the collectivo is waiting to take...

Traditional Carnival clothing to entertain tourists on the train to Puno Now sitting in a very pretty and completely overpriced hostel in Santiago, the capital of...

The true rulers of Machu Picchu. Llamas I have thought for a long time whether and what I should write about Machu Picchu. The reason for my doubts... There are already a...

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Arequipa, our first city at the foot of the Andes. The white city, as it is also called, we reach with the night bus in the early morning after a delicate three hours of sleep....

'I have always loved the desert. You sit on a sand dune. You see nothing. You hear nothing. But something shines in the silence... ''It makes the desert beautiful ,'' said the...

Cruz del Sur, die wohl teuerste Buslinie in Peru überzeugt mit einem Bus der Superlative. Koyen, die sich in kleine Schlafgemächer verwandeln laßen. 180 Grad Neigefähigkeit...

The Pan-American Highway. South America's jewel of road construction.

After a good meal, you can forgive anything, even your own relatives.Oscar Wilde From elegant to simple. The prices also vary in South America. A simple lunch with...

Alausì! Shout it out of the bus driver's cabin and he kindly lets us out on the highway so that we can walk down the wonderful road to the small town. Our almost last stop in...

Cuyabeno Lagoon at sunset

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Love life! I saw this sentence for the first time on a police vehicle in Ecuador's capital city, Quito. And indeed, it seems to be some kind of motto here. Although sometimes it...

The FARC becomes a political party and a ceasefire agreement is reached with the ELN. And we... we celebrate the last evening in Colombia with our friends. It can't get any...

Karma ist ein hinterlistiges Biest. Im Schnelltempo zischen die mahnenden Worte meines alten Physiklehrers durch meinen Kopf, während der Rest meines Körpers in Schockstarre...

'This is probably the worst time of year for the coast, and I have to come here now.' Cursing a thousand curses, I decide to commit mass murder of potentially stinging or biting...

The Plaza Trinidad in Cartagena. Church service inside. Meeting point for everyone

Main street up to the upscale neighborhood of the city. Serving as a silent border, the monkey head on the skyscraper. Medellin is considered a model city for successful...

Die Straße in der wir wohnten könnte genau so gut ein Vorort von Zürich sein. Das Viertel ist umgeben von Grün, alles ist sauber, sicher und...teuer. Das war nicht immer so....

Cali, you ugly! It's hot, my back hurts again, and I'm tired as we reach the city entrance of Cali. Almost automatically, my hand goes to the bus window. I draw the...

This year is the first Independence Day in 15 years that the people in southwestern Colombia can celebrate without fear. Even if the peace with the FARC rebels seems very...

July 20, 1810 Colombia fights to free itself from Spain. And today, in 2017, it fights again. For the freedom from corruption, drugs, and violence. I have decided to incorporate...