We landed on Easter Island with the excitement that one normally feels arriving at one of those places that you know you’ll most probably be at once in your lifetime! The team from Tea Nui knows how to receive eager tourists and introduces them to the Island in a way that … more »
If you liked yesterday’s photo of the day with the little Andean girl and her apple, here is another kid we met in the same colectivo ride, just a couple of KMs ahead. She definitely stood out by wearing a different cap from all of the other girls. She looked … more »
Sometimes, while traveling, you plan a lot how to get to do adventurous activities, go to new places and experience exciting things. Some other times, you just jump into a colectivo (small shared vans that work as buses) and have the time of your life chatting to locals and people … more »
Most people think that I am too lucky to be traveling long term and that I might have been blessed by some power from above. I am lucky in many ways indeed, but it took me a while to get here and some effort too. We’ve been traveling full-time for … more »
We met this fella in a monkey reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon. As the cities around the Amazon extended, part of the Amazon was deforested and the animals found their natural habitat destroyed. Furthermore, electrical lines where placed in nearby towns and roads and monkeys didn’t instinctively understand that they … more »
I love the feeling of flying to a new place and getting the aerial view of a new land from from up above! You’d think that after traveling for a while this feeling is not as intense and in those first trips in the earlier days, but the truth is … more »
Hanga Roa is the one and only town in Easter Island. It’s not a big city but, due to the influx of tourism, the ratio of citizens-restaurants is quite high. After spending one week in Easter Island eating all around, here are a few places that I would suggest you … more »
When you visit historical monuments, like Sao Jorge Castle in Lisbon in this case, you often get this feeling that, inside those places, time has remained still. This cat napping by the entrance to the castle is a metaphor of that: he is sleeping the afternoon away like the crazy … more »
Our flight to Punta Arenas, one of the most Southern cities in Chile and in the World, was a great intro to the freezing but beautiful time we had down there. Sometimes people pay great amounts of money for aerial tours and some other times you just get lucky and … more »
Allow me to introduce myself: I am a seasoned traveler, I have been around for so long that I don’t even belong to any specific country anymore. But experience carries good AND bad things! I’ve grown sick and tired of websites and travel blogs that picture the world as if … more »