A mesure que nous montions vers le nord du pays, nous descendions en altitude et les températures se réchauffaient. En parallèle, le climat, la faune et la flore évoluaient également. Après avoir traversé le Quiché et le Verapaz, nous sommes arrivé-es dans le chaud et humide département du Petén. Il fallait désormais se faire à…

Impossible de manquer le grand marché indigène de Chichicastenango! C’est là-bas que je me suis rendu compte que le Guatemala n’est en fait vraiment pas très touristique (ce qui rend ce pays si génial). Le marché est pourtant présenté comme une visite indispensable dans les guides de voyage, mais il s’est avéré que très peu…

5 ans après être revenue d’Amérique latine, je suis enfin de retour sur les routes du continent. L’aventure m’avait manqué! Cette fois, c’est vers l’Amérique centrale que s’est dirigé mon regard, car je voulais découvrir quelque chose de nouveau. Le hasard des recommandations d’ami-es voyageureuses m’a poussée à partir au Guatemala, faisant fi des avertissements…

After my friend Emma’s departure, I spent a few days with my favorite Italian friends in Brazil, whom it was really awesome to meet again after so many years! I lived for six months in the same apartment as Irene, not far from the famous Duomo of Florence, during my Erasmus. Then I saw her…

At the end of last November, my friend Emma contacted me saying that she was very inspired by my travels and was contemplating the dream of joining me, perhaps around January-February. We didn’t talk about this for a long while, I carried on my journey, and, in January,  as I asked her what she had in mind,…

Patagonia is clearly one of the highlights of my trip and I’m extremely happy that I managed/had the time to discover it (a bit). To sum it up, I went from one side of the Andes to the other, going down always more to the South heading towards Antarctica (which I didn’t reach, we’ll keep…

The land of poets treated me like a queen. Between friends and friends of friends, I was hosted from home to home, and it touched me deeply. After quite a chaotic arrival in Santiago, because my bus was 6h30 late (because of border crossing and traffic jam in the city), I finally ended up in…

The rhythm at which I change country has increased a lot recently… After about 2 months in Colombia and one in Peru, I spent 12 days in Bolivia, and if I wanted to reach Patagonia during this journey I already had to keep heading South. Which means I crossed the North of Argentina in about ten…

Bolivia was the set for a sweet encounter, because my Eman joined me on the other side of the planet. After 2.5 months without seeing each other, it’s in Santa Cruz that we spent Christmas by 30 degrees (though cloudy). Emanuele enjoyed his first fruit juices, his first meals at the market. Never got sick,…

I started discovering Peru with some beach time in the North, in Mancora. I stayed there for a few days and met a Bernese co-national, Cuno. With him and others we went, among trying the local “ceviche” (white raw fish marinated in lemon and onions, delicious and ultra-fresh!) and chatting on the beach (I did…

*rumba = party The border is crossed, I’ve got new stamps in my passport (out of Colombia, in and out of Ecuador, and in Peru) and I am now out of the ground I so loved. I immediately missed Colombia! I really fell in love with this fantastic country, as I jokingly predicted when asked…

I recommend you to listen to this playlist while reading the article, a short selection by myself of the sounds that have made my days in Colombia and more specifically along the coast. There, you’ll find some salsa, champeta, reggaeton, vallenato, and some others… (I’ll talk to you about music further on): More time than usual…

To leave Manizales I got not on a bus, but a… big car, and I spent 5 hours in there, stuck between my two strangers. Thank god I’ve got books with me! I arrived in Medellin and met Catalina, that I also know from the time of my student house in Zurich. Awesome to meet…

It’s now been two weeks since I’ve arrived, and this conclusion is obvious. Colombia is as amazing as Indonesia. Perhaps I have a weakness for tropical countries?* This hypothesis seems full of sense. Colombia has everything magical you might look for in a country, geographically speaking: volcanoes, glaciers, three cordilleras for the price of one,…

(*First days – in Bogotá) Before leaving I had neither time nor desire to prepare my trip in detail. It was enough to know that I had a list of ideas and recommendations for each country and that I wouldn’t run out of possibilities on the spot. After a few movies and episodes during the…