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Then I went home and blogged about it.
My last week in Rio turned out to be quite different than what I had imagined it to be, and not in a good way. After carnival, the people I had been hanging out with and had been sharing fun moments with, started leaving one by one... First there was Chris, Marcia´s friend from Leeds, the next day our Spanish friend Rocio returned to Madrid, a few ( Read more... ) -
Rio and the long road to it.
Getting back to Rio de Janeiro proved to be quite a challenge. First there was the part of getting out of Iquitos, Peru. Since Iquitos is the biggest city on earth without any roads leading to it, I was left with two options of getting out of there, on to Ecuador. My first option consisted of taking a flight back South to Lima and then a bus up ( Read more... ) -
Taking the boat/road less travelled by...
I guess it was almost impossible to avoid: after travelling for close to 4 months, through 7 countries, today, for the first time, I had to check my Lonely Planet guidebook to know which city I was in. It turned out to be Piura, Peru ( Read more... ) -
Welcome to the jungle
As a birthday present to myself, I bought a plane ticket from Lima to Pucallpa since I really couldn't stand the thought of spending another 24+h in a crappy Peruvian bus... especially not after spending 3 consecutive nights in busses on my way to Lima ( Read more... ) -
In random news
I was just sitting on the sidewalk at the Plaza de Armas, here in Arequipa, Peru, when a Peruvian girl started talking to me. We talked for 5 minutes or so, at the end of which she asked "Y Usted, es de España ( Read more... )
