Windswept In Chicago
12th: After all those hectic days with AS i New York, I needed nothing as much as I needed rest, and getting my pulse down. So the whole day, I did nothing but go out to buy groceries for lunch and dinner, and a bit later I went out and bought a Rough Guide to [...]
New York Duo
5th of June: After much trouble, going the wrong places and annoying people who might know where I should go (JFK is a navigational nightmare), I found the right arrival location, and after 5 small minutes the passengers started arriving. It took quite a while, but eventually Anne Sophie (my sister) walked out and a [...]
New York Solo
3rd of June: I arrived at Madison Square Garden, got off the bus, grabbed my bag and got lost. On my trip I have been many places, Buenos Aires has 13 million people and is insane; but nothing is as confusing as New York, their subway was set up to harass first time tourists, I [...]
From The D, To The C!
29th of May: I had arrived a day early (I don’t know why I didn’t set my booking to start a day earlier), so I had to change room and checkout time was 11, and check-in time, 14. So I checked out at 10.30 and sat around waiting until 14, when I checked in. I [...]
In Transit
28th of May: I arrived at the international airport of Habana around 1:30 in the morning, and was asked to pay 50 CUC instead of 40, as the airport is 25 km outside the city, I didn’t like this new concept, and refused to pay anymore than 45 CUC. Inside the airport the security is [...]
Cuba’s Heartland
24th of May: Early morning, tiny breakfast, and out about to see Camaguey. It is a great place, especially the lack of city planning appeals to me, after months of every single city and village being laid out in a grid, these random streets seem to cheer me up. Camaguey is not an extravagant place, [...]
In Search Of A Revolution
21st of May: I studied the Cuban revolution quite a lot in sixth form (college/high school/gymnasiet/VGS), and I am therefore quite eager to see the important sites of the revolution, but first I went to Santiago, some two hours east of the Granma landing. It didn’t see any hard fighting, but it is Cuba’s second [...]
La Habana
17th of May: Having gone to bed around 2 in the morning, both of us (Lisa and I) slept very late, but when we got up, we checked out of the casa particular (wasn’t a nice one, and we both had reservations other places), and headed to where Lisa had a reservation, and then I [...]
El Gringo; hojas
Early morning, I simply couldn’t fall asleep again after the snoring guy had messed up my night. But I just waited for 2 hours in my bed, it was just too early to get up. So I got up around 5 o’clock, and hung around one of the hostels internet computers, until it was time [...]
La Paz; city of visits
I woke early, followed by Jimmy a bit later, we went for breakfast the same place as the previous day, and were just as pleasantly surprised with the food. Afterwards Jimmy tried to get some more information about his trip to Puno, as the bus driver in Peru were on strike. He ended up agreeing [...]
Copacabana
13th of May: Slow start, I was going to Copacabana with Jimmy, and he didn’t wake up till around 11 or 12, so I spent the early day walking around La Paz. Eventually Jimmy got around, and we took a taxi to the cemetary, where the buses for Copacabana leave. So we bought a ticket [...]
From Rurre To La Paz
11th of May: We had nothing but a very long day ahead of us, lots of pictures to be uploaded and a fresh supply of empanadas, right next to the internet cafe, so what we did on this day, can hardly surprise anyone. We had a nice breakast and lunch in Rurre, but at 16.45, [...]
Are You Experienced? J&J Are…
5th of May: Camina De Muerte Down the Camina De Muerte (Death Road) for the second time, however it was Jimmy’s first trip. This time I went with a company called B-Side, at $55 they are more expensive than Pacha (last time) and a good deal cheaper than Gravity (biggest company). However their bikes are [...]
Jimmy!
I arrived in La Paz at 6 in the morning, and took a taxi to my hostel, unknowingly that it was only 3 blocks away. I then sat around at the hostel and waited until 10.30, when Jimmy appeared, Jimmy from Bariloche and Easter Island. We had agreed to meet up, to go to the [...]
Sucre
1st of May: Now that my watch has run out of battery, I have no idea when I wake up. But I was feeling much better, so I went out for a big breakfast; and what did I see where I went? The part of breakfast I had been missing for nearly 3,5 month? A [...]
Onwards to Sucre!
29th of April: You would think that getting to Sucre would be easy, just a nice comfy 10 hour busride… Well after eating at Minuteman last night, I got a bad case of food poisoning, my third. This time was a lot worse than in La Paz, but I managed… Sort of. I began by [...]
Salar De Uyuni
Pictures: Salar De Uyuni 26th of April: There were 10 of us, 4 Israeli’s (Amit, Eyal, Or and Asaf), 1 Colombian (Cesar), 1 Pole (Olga) and me. There was also a driver, a cook and the cooks daughter (Magte). We set out at 11 o’clock, and drove for several hours, until we came upon a [...]
The Road To Uyuni
I keep waking up early, but then I don’t go late to bed. But as I knew I would be spending the entire day in a bus, I went to have a decent breakfast (hostel breakfast is 2 pieces of bread) and brought Angela and James along. I ate… A big ham and cheese omelet, a big [...]
Deadly Mines:
I had gone early to bed the previous day, so I woke with good time to spare before my tour would start at 9. But 9 o’clock came around, and we got picked up, in total there was 12, and our first stop was the deposit, where we could outfitted with mining clothes (to protect [...]
Potosí
Potosi; the worlds highest city (after Amsterdam): I arrived at 5 in the morning, something I didn’t quite expect… Why have a night bus if you don’t get to sleep properly? I just happened to think that it was much further away, and my first concern was whether my hostel would be open. I took [...]
La Paz
19th of April: Woke in the middle of the night with uncontrollable bowel movements, but after some quality time at the toilet, I could safely go to bed again. I woke up some hours later, but this time it was the normal waking up; but I still felt ill and so didn’t eat any breakfast. [...]
Inca Trail
Day 1, 13th of April: I was supposed to be picked up at 5 o’clock, so I set my watch to wake me up at 4.30. However I was woken at 6 in the morning by Flavio, my guide. I had overslept, but my hostel was the last place the bus stopped, and I had [...]
Post Inca Trail
17th of April: I spent most of the day trying to get my pictures converted and uploaded to flickr, but it all went bad, and when I finally got it right, the internet was too crap to upload the pictures. I also met Mike who invited me to come bungee jump with him, I agreed [...]
The Day Before The Inca Trail
This will be my last post until Thursday. Tomorrow (Sunday) morning I am leavning on the Inca Trail, and this today was mainly focused on preperation. I rented a small rucksack to bring along (my big one is much too big), packed it proporly and made sure everything was okay. At 18 o’clock there was [...]
