The flavors of Creole cuisine, are very different from those in the Mediterranean primarily because in Colombia, normally, olive oil is not used. The people know and use it, but it is not typical. You can find it in the elite supermarket Carulla, there is […]
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I arrived in Iquitos the first time in April of 2014, during my year of community service in Lima, and I returned to the jungle of Loreto 5 more times, sometimes for short periods and sometimes for longer. Only this year I decided to return for […]
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Bogota, like the greater part of the Latin capital Cities, is a city that over the years has changed rapidly and it is enough to make a return there a few years after to understand how this evolution has completely enveloped it. Many years ago, the […]
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Last year, when I was still working in an office in London, I spent three weeks vacation in Brazil. Of the various places visited during the trip, the one that left me without words was definitely Iguazu (or Iguassu Falls, or Iguaçu), on the border with […]
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Patagonia is one of those places that are preceded by their reputation. Everyone painting it in a special and personal way even before visiting it, I, for example, imagined it as an infinite expanse of dull earth: the steppe. But preparing the journey and especially once […]
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What you have to know when planning a trip to the Galapagos Islands There is a place that more than others has captured my attention and stimulated my interest , the fact of my long permanence there makes it clear , I speak obviously, of […]
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Peru is the third largest country in South America . For those who have never been to this continent and has only ever traveled in Europe or in South East Asia, the first bus they encounter the moment they land in any airport of the many […]
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I had vowed after the mountain- bike tour of the Carretera de la Muerte in La Paz, that I would stop with extreme activities, even for a very practical reason: my travel insurance was expired, I was expecting to go home this month when I had […]
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In Bolivia up to this day the saying that something is “worth a Potosi ” stands to indicate that this thing is worth a fortune. And it is only by spending a few days in the streets of Potosi , the highest city in the world […]
0 Leggi tuttoThe legend tells that Huacachina , also called the Oasis of America, had its origin when a princess, who was having her bath, was captured by a young hunter . while escaping from him she let the waters become a lake and the train of her […]
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A trip to the Galapagos is in every sense the journey that you do once in your life , a bit for distance , the flight can take up to 35 hours , a bit for the high costs , which make it a destination for […]
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I think it’s well-known by now that I like to travel by bus. Mine is not only a question of money, the buses are in fact notoriously cheaper than any other means of transport, but rather a matter of personal joy in traveling the roads, macadamized […]
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If for most parts of the countries of Latin America 3 weeks are not enough for a trip as there is a risk of spending most of the time on the buses, traveling to Ecuador is easier at least logistically given its reduced geographical size. Ecuador, […]
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It’s in places like Titicaca you need to let the every day thoughts go and surrender to the immaculate beauty of the apparently immobile nature. Energetic Titicaca! The higher (navigable) lake in the world is the place where traditions, myth and history are intertwined bringing us back […]
0 Leggi tuttoWhat are the dangers of traveling in South America? Is it safe to travel alone? The only danger of traveling in South America is not to have enough time to be able to do everything that on paper and from home was believed possible to carry […]
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Expectations , cursed and blessed expectations ! It was Ecuador the country in Latin America where I wanted to stay as little as possible that has become the one where I stayed longer in well 18 months of travel . It happens often that when […]
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Only 16 hours by bus and 1,000 kilometers separate the “european Argentina” from the native one. I can’t really call this area more authentic but definitely is very different from what I have seen so far. As soon I have surpassed the boundaries of the province […]
0 Leggi tuttoIn Tilcara the only thing that reminds me we are still in Argentina is the mate for sale at local markets. For the rest,As far as I am concerned, I could be in Bolivia where coca leaves are sold, short and a bit pudgy women wear […]
1 Leggi tutto There are places that inspire even those who are not a photographer or someone like me, a clumsy photographer. The Galapagos Islands are one of those places, where every little thing, even the most insignificant, becomes something to capture forever in a photo. Mainly animals living in […]
0 Leggi tuttoBolivia seems to have many records, for better or for worse. It is the poorest country in South America, boasts the highest city in the world (Potosi), the largest salt desert in the world, the highest navigable lake on earth (Titicaca), place that is also considered the […]
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