As soon as the stressful Transamazonica is over and Shujaa undergoes a thorough wash - which this time lasted a little longer than usual…
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Transamazonica Adventure – Can we beat the challenge?
What have we not already heard and read about the Transamazonica: Murderous tracks that you never want to do again, impassable in the rainy…
Four days trekking tour to Ciudad Perdida
The “lost city” trekking tour - Ciudad Perdida - in the Sierra de Nevada de Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast in northern Colombia…
On the road again – from Bogota to the Colombian Caribbean coast
After our one-month stay in Germany, due to the sale of our house, we are again on the road with Shujaa. Germany was stressful…
The Galapagos – sailing through paradise
The Galapagos Islands were at the top of our priority list of detours from the South American mainland. Our expectations were correspondingly high, and…
Back in the highlands of Ecuador: Mindo and Quito
After our wonderful days in the Sacha Lodge in the Amazon jungle, we drive from the snorting volcano Reventador on over the highlands with…
The Oriente: Ecuador’s Amazon Jungle
From the volcanic highlands we drive down to Baños and along many large waterfalls into the Amazon lowland. Ecuador, together with Peru, has the…
Again over 4,500 vertical meters: The Chilean Altiplano with the Salar de Surire
We stayed for just one day on the Peruvian coast, so as not to lose our painful developed altitude acclimatization, because we will go…
Arequipa and the Colca Canyon – the deepest gorge in the world
From Titicaca Lake we drive on good tracks and roads to Arequipa - the second largest city of Peru, which is located at "only"…