In the middle of the south region of Colombia, a desert named La Tatacoa have been formed. It is not technically a desert, but it definitely have some cacti growing there. After getting a few grains of sand in my eyes, I guess I can comply with the name: Desierto de La Tatacoa (The desert of Tatacoa). (more…)
The mountains are pulling me higher and higher. The nature is calling with its colors, freshness and vitality. The city of Manizales presents amazing adventures for the approximately 400.000 inhabitants and the stray traveler. I am back in the Andes and here, the coffee is everywhere, cheap and pretty fascinating.
At the age of 44 years and one day, Pablo Escobar ended his reign as worlds number one cocaine dealer in the city of Medellín. His way of connect to people were to most people slightly abnormal, as he either got people killed, hooked on drugs, jailed or paid them decent bribes. I almost danced on his grave, but I never saw his white marching powder.
Tolú - what can I say? If I were told to describe this place in one word, containing three letters, it would be: WOW. Unfortunately not in a good way and I would have needed to ask, if I could put quotes around it, and add two exclamation marks."WOW!!" is probably the only way I could, would and should describe this place, even if others could, would or should remove both the quotes and the exclamation marks. (more…)
Coming back from Cuba, Colombia seems like a different country. I don’t know if it is me that has changed or if it is the country that has changed. Staying at the same hotel that I left 2,5 weeks ago, everything around me is familiar, but most things that I left, seem to have changed. (more…)
Our two weeks in Cuba brought us through a great variety of impressions. From the nice encounters of humans and nature, through spontanious and surprising events to the dark side of this somewhat mysterious island. Despite the unpleasant experiences described in previous post, there were several memorable experiences in Cuba. (more…)
Cuba is a Country full of contradictions and opposites. Cuba is a country with a lot of greedy people and every kind of mild criminals and hustlers. Cuba is a country where I spent a lot of time searching for most things, and luckily, I found Trond at last. Cuba is a country where the adrenaline has been rushing through my body - but unfortunately not in the good way. (more…)
