22nd December 2014
Blog posts from 2014
4th December 2014
Day 13 – Ushuaia
Today 3 of us went on a 4×4 escursion throught the mountains of Ushuaia, which ended up in a lake where we got to canoe and then in a lodge where we got a Parilla ! , at one point our driver even got out of the car while it was still running, and was […]
3rd December 2014
Day 12 – Ushuaia
Today we went to the port to take a boat through the beagle channel, where we got to see , sealions and penguins, aswell as a landmark of Ushuaia ( the lighthouse) !
2nd December 2014
Day 11 – Ushuaia
Today we took another bus to go to Ushuaia the southern most city in the world, the bus took us throught the argentinian border ( where i got my 11th argentina stamp (they love to stamp) ) and on a little ferry , finally 12 hours later we arrived in Ushuaia !
1st December 2014
Day 10 – Punta Arenas
Today we took a 6 hour Bus to the city of punta Arenas , where we were suposed to see penguins, but since they hadent migrated yet, we went on a city tour, and got a little talk by our ceo about the history of the region, and how to drink mate the national drink […]
30th November 2014
Day 9 – Torres Del Paine
Today i was woken up by the wind in my tent, that was super strong , you almost felt as if the tent would fly away! after a quick breakfast we headed out to the French Valey, but unfortunately it was cloudy so we didnt see a lot of the landscape when we were at […]
29th November 2014
Day 8 – Torres Del Paine
Today we woke up from our very confy tents and grabbed breakfast, we then got to make our own sandwiches and made our way to the ferry for today’s hike, we hiked 4 hours to the Grey glacier ( which wasnt grey ) but the lake was, because of the sediments. after the hike, we […]
28th November 2014
Day 7 – Torres Del Paine
Today we left our hotel early and took a bus to the torres del paine national park, where we started our hike, to see the torres , a 8 hour hike, when we got to the top it started snowing, so we didnt see a lot , but it was still pretty cool ! after […]
27th November 2014
Day 6 – Puerto Natales
Today we took a 6 bus from Argentina to chile, and to our next stop Puerto Natales,. in puerto Natales, we took a quick city tour before going to an amazing pizza place, and then for the briefing of the next 3 days, in torres del paine .
26th November 2014
Day 5 – Perito Moreno Glacier
Today we visited the Perito Moreno glacier, near El Calafate, and got to witness it caving and pieces falling off the size of apartement buildings, making a really loud noise , we also got to get up close to the glacier by going on a little boat ! At night we went to a restaurant […]
25th November 2014
Day 4 – El Calafate
Today we were supposed to go ice climbing, but unfortunately due to to much wind, we were unable to go , and therefore decided to go hiking to a local waterfall, after getting a breakfast crepe ! after the hike, we took a bus to the city of el calafate ( the city where we […]
24th November 2014
Day 3 – Glacier National Park
Today we met up early at 8:30 to go on our first hike of our trip to go to Fitzroy mountain , a 22 km round trip, we got really lucky because when we got to the top , the mountain was completely clear, and aparently this only happens every 3 days, so only 30% […]
23rd November 2014
Day 2 – El Chaten
Today we woke up super early and took a bus to the airport at 5 am ready for our flight at 8 to el calafate !, when we got on the plane there was a lot of free places, so i got to sleep on a whole row of 3 seats !, we landed next […]
22nd November 2014
Day 1 – Buenos Aires
Today was the First day of my tour, so i packed my stuff and headed to the hotel, where i met my group. after an introduction the the trip we would be taking, 5 of us went to a good parilla, before going back to the hotel, ready to wake up at 4am the next […]
28th July 2014
Day 68 – Flight to Buenos Aires
Today was the last day of my tour, and after having said goodbye to everyone i went off to the airport where i boarded my flight to buenos aires, where i moved into my apartement, the one i willl be staying in during the duration of my study abroad session, from august to december
27th July 2014
Day 67 – Rio De Janeiro
today we wet for breakfast close to the beach before going to visit the sugar loaf , but unfortunately it was covered in clouds, so we couldnt see much , but it was also the last time we could visit it ! just as we were about to leave it started pourring down with rain, […]
26th July 2014
Day 66 – Rio De Janeiro
Today we decided to go on a tour of the favelas , and got to walk down the streets and go onto one of the roofs and oversee the whole favela, we even visited a pinting workshop, where locals sold paintings they made ! since it was raining we decided to stay in until dinner […]
25th July 2014
Day 65 – Rio De Janeiro
today we took the boat again , but under the pourring rain and got drenched to go to the mainland and then a bus to go to rio ! once in rio we decided to visit chris the redeamer just before it closed and got to see it in the dark , which was even […]
24th July 2014
Day 64 – Ihla Grande
today a few of us got up at 3 am and started hiking up to Parrot’s peak ( one of the highest peaks of the island – 980m) through the jungle in the dark until we arived at the top 3 hours later just in time to see the sunrise and get amazing pictures, before […]
23rd July 2014
Day 63 – Ihla Grande
today we hiked the island for about 2 and a half hour, crossing different beaches to get to one of brazil’s top 10 beaches , which was amazing , once there we just relaxed and swam in the sea but every time we did the currents would be so strong they would push us further […]
22nd July 2014
Day 62 – Ihla Grande
today we took a bus and a boat to get to ilha grande, our next destination , there we dropped off our stuff and went to a great burger place before visiting the island a little bit, we walked to a viaduct and natural swimming pools ( but they were freezing ) and then back […]
21st July 2014
Day 61 – Paraty
today we walked down to the pier and got on this massive boat, where we all sailed around the bay and stopped a few times so that we could jump into the water and look around, on the first stop we swam to a little island , and the second one we got to jump […]
20th July 2014
Day 60 – Paraty
today we had to meet at 4:30 to go to the airport , but since my alarm didnt ring , i woke up at 4:28 and had to run everywhere to get ready ! when we got to the airport, we took a plane to sao paulo and then changed to a private bus to […]
19th July 2014
Day 59 – Iguassu Falls
today we went back to argentina to visit the argentinian side of the falls, but due to a flood about a month ago, half the bridges were broken and we werent able to see everything, after some walking around, we went on a 4×4 through the jungle to the bottom of the river where we […]
18th July 2014
Day 58 – Iguassu Falls
today we finally finished the last night bus of our trip and arrived in Foz de iguassu, the city the closest to the iguassu falls on the brazillian side, we went to our hotel dropped our stuff and grabbed something to eat quickly, before going to the falls on the brasilian side. once at the […]
17th July 2014
Day 57 – Estancia Stay
today after breakfast, where we finally got to try our bread we had made the previous morning, we took a minibus to the argentina, where we passed the border and went to grab something to eat before waiting for our 16 hour night bus to iguassu , unfortunately the bus was an hour late but […]
16th July 2014
Day 56 – Estancia Stay
Today we got up and had breakfast and made our own bread shapes ( i made a turtle and a snake) that we will get to eat later, afterwards we learnt how to milk a cow and were split in two teams to see who could milk the cow the most and win ! after […]
15th July 2014
Day 55 – Estancia Stay
today we took a really uncorfotable private bus to the estancia ( not enough spaces to be confortable) and got to the estancia, just before lunch where we were given barbecue sausage . after lunch we hiked for 2-3 hours to the river nearby ( rio negro) under the rain and got drenched, when we […]
14th July 2014
Day 54 – Montevideo
Today we took bikes and rode around the seafront of Montevideo from the city center. stopping on the way to take pictures at the city’s sign (a little bit like amsterdam’s but smaller) and at a lighthouse. after the biking we went back to the center of the city to eat a giant pizza .
13th July 2014
Day 53 – Montevideo
Today we went back to the ferry port to take a 3 hour bus to montevideo, our next stop . once in Montevideo we went to the port, in a giant hangard where there were lots of little stands acting as restaurants, where we ate food that was cooked on a massive grill . after […]
12th July 2014
Day 52 – Colonia
today we took the ferry ( 1 hour) to colonia the first city in Uruguay , there we quickly visited the city center and tried dulce de leche ice cream , which was delicious , but after a while it started pouring down with rain (almost for the first time since our first week, so […]
11th July 2014
Day 51 – Buenos Aires
today i was met in the morning by the g adventure ceo i had talked to the night before who owns an apartement, and after a brief introduction we started walking towards the apartement ( a 20 min walk from the hotel ) during which i was shown the important places on the way and […]
10th July 2014
Day 50 – Buenos Aires
today i spent the day on internet looking for accomodation online and had almost given up until my previous tour guide gave me the contact details of another g adventures tour guide who owns an apartement and planned to show me his apartement the next day . in the afternoon, i went to the 4th […]
9th July 2014
Day 49 – Buenos Aires
Today we woke up super early (4am to take our 6am flight) to buenos aires, but unfortunately it was cancelled so we had to wait until the next flight at 10 am which was 30 min late, but at least we got a free breakfast. once we arrived in buenos aires, we took a private […]
8th July 2014
Day 48 – Salta
Today we were met by taxis to take us to a ranch about an hour outside of the city, where we got breakfast and started our horserinding tour around the village and fields for 3 hours , starting off by walking and then learning how to trott, after that just before going back, we got […]
7th July 2014
Day 47 – Salta
Today we took a bus n the morning to argentina , which took us 12 hours including a 3 hour stopover to pass through the argentinina border, which was torture as it was super slow, and super boring . we finally arrived in salta at 10pm argentinian time and had just enough time to go […]
6th July 2014
Day 46 – San Pedro de Atacama
Today we got up and improvised a breakfast which we had to cook ourselves and then went on to our morning expedition , Biking to a laggon so salty its almost the dead sea , on the 20 km way to the lake , we were followed by 3 dogs which just ran along with […]
5th July 2014
Day 45 – San Pedro de Atacama
Today was the last day of the salt flats expedition and we stopped in many lakes which are supoosed to be different colors ( red and green ) but were so iced up , or hidden by the effects of the wind that we didnt see anything ( all this because we are in winter […]
4th July 2014
Day 44 – Salt Flats
Today we got up early for breakfast and continued our expedition to our next stop , Fish Island an island full of cacti , which looks like a fish, after the island we left the salt flats to visit the galaxy caves a weird set of caves formed by bubbles in the lava of a […]
3rd July 2014
Day 43 – Salt Flats
Today i went to an internet cafe in the morning to upload the last version of this website, after this we went to the local market , where you could buy everything from fruits and vegetables to tv’s and toys , there we bought more snacks and toys for the salt flats and went back […]
2nd July 2014
Day 42 – Uyuni
Today we took the bus from Potosi, to our next stop and the start of the salt flat expedition , Uyuni , a city that was abandoned and repopulated and now looks a little bit like a ghost town once in uyuni we went to grab something to eat at a local restaurant, which was […]
1st July 2014
Day 41 – Potosi
Today i woke up ealry still feeling sick, but wanting to visit the silver mines i pushed ahead we first went to the miners market to buy gifts for the miners ( juice and coca leaves) and got dressed in the miners uniform, once we were dressed up we went to the silver refinery to […]
30th June 2014
Day 40 – Potosi
Today we took a private bus to Potosi a miner town situated at 4070 m high, and the highest town with a population of more than 10 000 inhabitants apart from the bus, i did nothing all day but sleep and be sick from altitude sickness/food poisoning/ or the flu
29th June 2014
Day 39 – Sucre
today we got up to the center of the city to go rockclimbing we first took a bus to the outskirts of the city and walked about 15 minutes to a rock cliff over seeing the city , where our guides set up the ropes for us to climb we did different levels from 5A […]
28th June 2014
Day 38 – Sucre
today we arived by night bus early so we went to get breakfast in a restaurant close by after breakfast, we wondered around the city for a while, and i decided to go find legos for pictures in the bolivia salt plains which are coming up soon, finding that lego took me about an hour […]
27th June 2014
Day 37 – La Paz
today we went to a mexican restaurant to grab a quick lunch , before i headed to one of the tallest buildings in the city and abseiled down it for most of it, before being let go and drop the final bit ( dressed as Super Mario of course ) after the abseiling, we headed […]
26th June 2014
Day 36 – La Paz
today We got up early to be welcomed by our tour company, ready to bring us to death road ! we were brought to the top of death road, which is made out of tarmac and last for 21 kilometers, there we had our meeting and snacks before heading down the road with cars overtaking […]
25th June 2014
Day 35 – La Paz
today we took a bus to La paz , and passed the Bolivian border which took ages, when we arived we went to a dutch restaurant which served really good food !
24th June 2014
Day 34 – Puno
today after 11 hours of sleep we were woken up at 7:30 for breakfast and after breakfast we went to our family’s sheep pen , where we attached ropes to the sheep ankles and brought them to a field and attached them there, but one or two of the sheeps kept escaping and we had […]
23rd June 2014
Day 33 – Lake Titicaca
today we were welcomed at the hotel by a bunch of touk touk’s ready to bring us to the port where we boarded a boat to visit the peruvian side of lake titicaca we first went to the uros islands a set of loating islands where we got a lesson about how the islands are […]
22nd June 2014
Day 32 – Puno
today we took a day bus to Puno , Near lake Titicaca . we arived there at about 3 pm and went around the city to visit a little bit , after a quick visit we headed to the supermarket to buy food for our host families after our shopping we went to a restaurant […]
21st June 2014
Day 31 – Cusco
today I spent most of my day in bed recuperating from the inca trail, since my legs are dead for dinner we went to a restaurant where we got to try guinea pig, they first showed us the guinea pig cooked on a plate, before bringing it back sliced and diced
20th June 2014
Day 30 – Machu Pichu
today we got woken up at 3 am to go on the final stretch of our journey to machu pichu , because the porters needed to pack everything to grab a train back to the valey we got a quick breakfast and headed to the final gate of the inca trail where we were let […]
19th June 2014
Day 29 – Inca trail Day 3
today after an other early wake up call we headed off as a group visiting different ruins along the way to our lunch campsite which was on the top of a moutain where we could see the whole valey behind us and the one ahead, there i even tried to carry one of the porter […]
18th June 2014
Day 28 – Inca trail Day 2
today we were woken up at 5:30 with a cup of coca tea and a bowl of hot water to start our day , the hardest day where we climb to 4215 meters high from 3000 m we all started off as a group but seperated depending on our different speeds to get to the […]
17th June 2014
Day 27 – Inca Trail Day 1
today when we woke up we realised that the electricity and shut off in the whole town and had no hot water to shower or light to see but we still got ready and grabed our stuff ready to start our adventure ! we took a bus to the start of the inca trail where […]
16th June 2014
Day 26 – Ollyantaytambo
Today on our way to the Ollyantambo we decided to visit the secret valey and stopped off in different places for tours of the ruins or stopped to take pictures with llamas. after the first city we continued to ollyantambo where we dropped our stuff off and went to see another set of ruins , […]
15th June 2014
Day 25 – Cusco
Today 2 of us got up early to go rafting about 2 hours away from the city, we were brought to the campsite where we got our training and took pictures before going in the water . once we were in the water we went down a beautifull valey and got super splashed . at […]
14th June 2014
Day 24 – Cusco
Today our night bus arrived in cusco quite early at around 7 am, and we all went to our hotel to drop our stuff before going to go to a breakfast place near by which served amazing food, and english breakfast for the many british people in our tour. afterwards we went to the city […]
13th June 2014
Day 23 – Colca Canyon
Today we woke up early to take our bus back to arequipa, where we are supposed to spent the day on the bus we stopped at the highest point of this part of the trip 4910 m to take pictures, before continuing to arequipa in arequipa , we all went for lunch on top of […]
12th June 2014
Day 22 – Colca Canyon
Today we woke up at 6 to go see the condors in colca canyon and sat there for 2 hours and got to see great shots of the condors even though they were far away about 30 meters away, but just as we were about to leave ( and all the other groups had) we […]
11th June 2014
Day 21 – Arequipa
today we woke up early at 8 to take the bus to our next stop Colca Canyon , a 4 hour bus ride that took us to 4910 m high, halfway through the bus ride , we stopped in a little area where we could go drink coca tea, which is tea made out of […]
10th June 2014
Day 20 – Arequipa
Today we arived early in arequipa and droped our stuff in the hotel , before going to the center of the city for an orientation walk to see what is in the center of the city, after the walk we went to a little coffee place in the afternoon we went to a terrace restaurant
9th June 2014
Day 19 – Nazca
Today we went to the nazca airport where we boarded small planes to fly over the nazca lines , even though the plane right was bumpy and made you want to vomit . after the plane rides we went back to the hotel where we assisted to pachamanca ceremony, where the locals create an oven […]
8th June 2014
Day 18 – Nazca
Today we woke up early to go to the port where we boarded a boat to the balesta islands , to see all sorts of birds and sea lions . after the boat we came back to our hotel to take a private bus to pisco , where they make the pisco a sort of […]
7th June 2014
Day 17 – Paracas
today we met the group at 12 to take a bus to paracas , when we go to paracas we all got together to go eat in a restaurant out on the seafront
6th June 2014
Day 16 – Lima
Day 16 – today was an inbetween day because our first trip (out of 4) finished and the second one where we meet new people in our group and have a new group leader started at 6 the same afternoon , so inbetween these times , we managed to go to a chocolate making factory […]
5th June 2014
Day 15 – Lima
Day 15 – we arived early in the morning at the bus station today and took a private bus to the hotel where we were split into rooms, and managed to catch another nap, before heading out into lima city center to watch the changing of the guards and go into the local catacombs we […]
4th June 2014
Day 14 – Huanchaco
Day 14 – since today the only thing planned was the night bus, we spent a day relaxing and talking at the hotel, but we did go out to a nice restaurant in the city center during the day. as we were about to go to the bus station to take our bus , we […]
3rd June 2014
Day 13 – Huanchaco
Day 13 – After the long bus journey , we finally arrived in trujillo, where we had to take a private bus to huanchaco to our hotel, but the bus kept stalling in the middle of the road on our way ! we finally arived at the hotel and went for a nap, woke up […]
2nd June 2014
Day 12 – Mancora
Day 12 – Today we woke up and rented surfboards and went surfing but unfortunately i didnt manage to surf any waves, even though i almost did a few times , we also decided to go on a banana boat where we all fell into the water multiple times. we then grabbed luch before going […]
1st June 2014
Day 11 – Mancora
Day 11 – Today having slept in the hammacks i woke up at 6 am because there was too much light so i went to the beach to watch the sunrise , after that i grabbed breakfast with other people from our group , nefore going to the beach the whole day and into the […]
31st May 2014
Day 10 – Mancora
Day 10 – today we woke up early at 5 to take taxis at 6 for our bus to peru , the bus took 5 hours and dropped us off in a little city where we waited for an hour for our private bus to peru , all while eating street popcorn when our private […]
30th May 2014
Day 9 – Cuenca
Day 9 – Today i finally got to get up late 11 am ! and met our group to go visit the city, we went to the place where they make the panama hats which arent made in panama but in ecuador and walked around the city to buy some food and to buy some […]
29th May 2014
Day 8 – Cuenca
Day 8 today we were supposed to take a bus early to go to cuenca but instead decided to stay in banos until 2 pm to go waterafting in the river which was really good ! , i was in the best team as our boat didnt capsize and went faster ! after the waterafting […]
28th May 2014
Day 7 – Banos
Day 7 today we woke up early to go rent buggys, which we drove around banos for an hour in search of the first place we were going to the ziplining, a zipline measuring 1 km long ! which was amazing but the rain falling down made us all soaked especially on thezipline. after the […]
27th May 2014
Day 6 – Banos
Day 6 today we woke up early from the rainforest to get ready and have breakfast before going to the bus station to take our bus to banos our next stop, to get to the bus station we had to fit 10 people on the back of a truck with a sort of little tent […]
26th May 2014
Day 5 – Amazon Jungle Homestay
Day 5 – today we went to a local school which welcomes 11 students to the community to learn more about the school and how the kids are taught, we offered them gifts we had bought at the supermarket at Quito, gifts like toilet paper, a football, and pencils, among many other things. After the […]
25th May 2014
Day 4 – Amazon Jungle Homestay
Day 4 – I woke up at 6:30 today by the chickens and the dogs living under our little hut, and got ready to go to the kitchen and make food, we prepare onions, hot dogs, tomatoes and bananas for our breakfast and cooked this hot dog tomato onion dish with soy sauce which consisted […]
24th May 2014
Day 3 – Amazon Jungle Homestay
Day 3 – we woke up super early to go to breakfast at 6:30 , before leaving the hotel at 7 to take a private bus to the quito bus station , where we took a bus to tena a city on the edge of the jungle. on the bus (unfortunately) since i was the […]
23rd May 2014
Day 2 – Quito
Day 2 – After a good night’s sleep I finally woke up at 7 Ecuadorian time, I decided to be lazy and stay in my bedroom until 10. Once I was ready I met up with Sarah and we decided to go visit the “Mitad del Mundo” or the middle of the earth in English, […]
22nd May 2014
Day 1 – Flight into Quito
Day 1 – I arrived at the airport ready for a sleepless night and somehow managed to get myself stuck in the bathroom for 15 min because the door was broken I was luckily freed by repairmen who luckily stumbled upon me after being stuck there for 15 mins. … great start to the trip: […]