After 452 days and 2 hours (or 15 months) of traveling, well over 125 thousand kilometers, roughly 36 countries/territories, around 90 flights, crossing the date line 4 times, posting more than a hundred stories to this blog and shooting more than 18 thousand pictures, we’re finally home. And that feels very very weird. We had […]
Cuba is one big open air musuem. Not just because of the brilliant old cars still on the road, which never ceases to delight us, but also because of the many revolutionary slogans and portraits you see painted on signs and buildings along the way. A very nice addition to the real museums about the […]
Quito is the capital of Ecuador. The word Quito means, in one of the indigenous languages, ‘the middle of the world’. The old, pre Incan, indian cultures already knew that Ecuador is right on the equator and thus in the middle of the earth. This is the main reason the Incas occupied the region and […]
The Galápagos Islands are a small group of islands some 1000 km West of Ecuador. The archipelago, consisting of 13 major islands, is one of Ecuador’s 21 provinces and lies on the equator. It was uninhabited until it was discovered by the Spanish in 1535. A lot has happened since then. It was used as […]
