The perfect picture: coincidence or staged?
Some tourists come back with beautiful wildlife photos. But is it pure luck? There are now tour operators willing to stage anything in exchange for the right amount of money. Also animal pictures.
An incredible year!
A full year on the road with so many adventures. It’s time to look back and to appreaciate everything we’ve seen and lived. We hope 2026 continues the same way!
An End and a Beginning: The Darien Gap
The road ends, we have to switch to transporting the car with a container. And like always, everything is a bit more complicated than expected.
Giants of the Llanos: the Orinoco Crocodile
One item on our to-see list: see a living fossil. We visited Picopando and his fellow species in the Llanos.
Places of the Future V – A safari in Colombia
A quasi-African safari in Colombia – and all animals were wild. An experience we couldn’t miss.
South America – what is dangerous?
We have visited almost every country in South America – and the ones that everyone warned us about were the ones we liked best. Here’s a reflection on what safety can be.
Places of the Future IV – Amazon’s Birds
In the Colombian border region of Putumayo, Yolima and her family are fighting for their small forest. A visit to Amazon’s Birds – a place of the future in the centre of a conflict zone.
A bit of everything: road conditions in South America
The road in South America are very varied, there is a bit of everything and one can choose its trip accordingly. However, even a national road can turn out to be a big adventure down here.
Goodbye Tawantinsuyu, the land of four parts
The Incan Empire has accompanied us the last months, it’s time to say goodbye, but before we leave, let’s look back.