As you might know from the previous post we choose the hard way to get to Cusco. Also, the first impression of the city and our hostel wasn’t great. Compared to sea view room in Lima we now had a room with no windows. In addition, the hostel was quite cold and damp. Luckily, we …
We landed Lima on the evening of the last day of the year 2018. We had an Airbnb place booked for several days. We lived with a family who had an apartment in the skyscraper which had a rooftop with a pool and grill area. Although our room itself was rather tiny then the view …
Our flight to Lima had a 24-hour layover on Bogota and for sure we did not want to spend all this time at the airport. So we booked a hostel nearby and explored the city a little bit. At first, we thought we will also visit the historic part of the city or so-called old …
We arrived in Costa Rica capital San Jose on 17th of December. We decided to fly in although we would have wanted to travel by land with buses. We decided not to because we had heard from many people that political situation in Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua is not good and we were advised …
We stayed with a Mayan family in San Jose la Laguna. It was a fully traditional local family where different lives under one roof. The matriarch and the queen of the house Garciela work in a local fabric coloring cooperative. The patriarch Diego worked at the tourism center and in addition, he was involved in …
After we left Antigua, we decided to spend the rest of the week by infamous Lake Atitlan. This crater lake which, is surrounded by volcanoes, is referred to one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. To get there we needed to take a 3 hours bus ride. We took a local “chicken bus” …
Antigua means old, so its one of the oldest cities in Guatemala and til 1776 it was the capital of the country. Antigua Guatemala, or more commonly referred to just Antigua, is significant for its’ well-preserved Spanish baroque style of architecture. There are numerous old churches which some of them are well preserved but some …
We landed in US on the 11th of November. The flight was long, but fortunately, we had a lot of space on the airplane, so we could feel us quite comfortable. Jaanus was looking at the movies and Kaija was trying to finish a book about a road trip in US that two Estonian guys …
In our previous blog we described our adventure of Sailing from Canary’s to Cape Verde. The recovery from this trip took a long time. The first days in Mindelo we were exhausted and did not really do much to look around in the town. In addition, we had to take a couple of days to …
We arrived to Tenerife, Marina der Sur of Las Galletas, on 2nd of October. Its a small marina in a little town Las Galletas. We selected this harbor, because its relatively cheap. Next to the harbor is an anchorage area. Although its sort of an unofficial anchorage area, it still seems to be widely used …