The next day we had to get up at 3.45am as Daniel was picking us up at 4am. He drove with us for 1.5h to Nauta by car and from there another 3.5h by boat into a reserve in the Amazon jungle. Even tough we hadn’t booked a private tour, the group consisted only of […]

From Lima we took a flight deep into the Amazon jungle to reach Iquitos, the biggest city without a road connection. After we had booked two full day tours into the jungle, we enjoyed the rest of the afternoon at the pool of the Hilton – where we of course did not stay. The next […]

After two working days in Cuenca we traveled with a taxi, a 10-hour night bus, a taxi, a flight and another taxi to Lima. Peru is the 15th country we travel to on this world trip and already the 5th Spanish speaking country we entered. And as we are still in the process of learning […]

The Devil’s Nose is a mountain the Trans-Andean railroad had to pass. And because this mountain has almost perpendicular walls it was quite a challenge for the engineers to do so. We entered the train at 8am and enjoyed the scenic track through the valley and listened to the explanations of our guide. And when […]

We continued our trip in Ecuador to Banos – the city of baths. And as it started to rain when we arrived, we made our way directly to one of those hot baths. The water at the Thermas de Virgin was nice, almost too nice. But we got used to the hot temperature and used […]

A taxi, a ferry, a bus, a plane, a bus and a taxi later we were back in Quito. This city is located on almost 3’000m and right next to the equator. This is rather impressive but also rather cold. And as it also rained quite a lot and we had to further plan our […]