Our two weeks in Rio passed quickly. The weather wasn’t always sunny, but it was always warm and it did not rain very often. We learned that it is not a good idea to visit the Christo Redentor on January 2nd at eleven o’clock in the morning (with 6 million others). During a second attempt, […]
If I had to explain in three words what makes travel so much fun, it would be ‘experiencing new things’. Obviously, because if everything was the same as it is at home, there would be no reason to leave it. In Brazil almost everything is just a little different from what we’re used to and […]
And so there I was, for the second time within a week, on the back of a horse. ‘Princeza’ is owned by Fazenda Aguapé in the southern part of the Pantanal, where we are staying a few days. The advantage of horseback riding is that you become a lot less muddy than if you were […]
When we visited Rangiroa eight years ago, where we did some fabulous diving, someone told us: “if you enjoy diving here, you should go to Fakarava – the diving is even better there.” It’s taken a while, but here we are! Fakarava is an atoll that looks like Rangiroa, only bigger, and with two passes […]
