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On the last day of our Galapagos Cruise the Island San Cristobal is on the agenda. The wind had become strong over night and getting to the island in the dinghy or even worse, getting on land, turns out to be quite a challenge.
Hector, our dinghy driver, has a lot of fun in the high waves and tries to surf with the dinghy - smiling pitifully at his colleague in the other dinghy, who takes the long way around the highest waves.
When we get to the island, a hearty jump onto the wet and slippery wooden platform is needed as well as a short run to the end of the platform to avoid being splashed by the big waves, that wash over it.
We all make it save and sound to the shore.
A colony of sea lions with many babies await us. Cuteness overload…
You love ceviche, and when you did it at home it was good, but somehow different to the ceviche you ate in your vacation?
To finally find out, me and a friend from Lima took a cooking class in Peru with the well-traveled peruvian chef Hector Aguilar Valle.
Very good choice, as Hector not just showed us what to put into it, he also made us try the sauce at every step, hinted on what is missing and showed us some tricks!
Next stop on our Galapagos Cruise is the Charles Darwin station on Santa Cruz Island.
They breed giant tortoises there, and if you don’t have the luck to see some in the wild, this is where you have to go.
There are tortoises in every age and every size in their compounds. They spent their time eating, fighting for the best piece of salad and trying to mate. And that’s also when the relaxed giants can get evil and develop an almost breakneck speed! :D
The Galapagos Islands are located about 900 km west of the equadorian mainland and were formed by uplifts of submarine lava formations.
The islands and the surrounding waters form the Galapagos National Park, which is famous for a huge number of endemic species, that Charles Darwin and his Beagle explored between 1831 and 1836.
Here's the first article of our Galapagos cruise.
But beware, contains cute pictures of an incredible wildlife...
Cuenca is a beautiful colonial town in Ecuador. We decided to celebrate New Years Eve here and we didn't regret it - we actually had a blast!
We got drunk with some locals, burned lots of rag dolls on the streets, jumped over the fire and danced around it with lots of drunk Ecuadorians in a crazy pandemonium.
Nobody wants to see the inside of a hospital during their holidays. Having to go to a hospital in a foreign country leads you to deal with additional challenges like a foreign language (what the hack does „mitral valve prolaps“ mean in spanish?) or a different kind of bureaucracy and organization (no, you don’t just storm into the emergency section unless you want to be knocked down by the armed security guard :-)).
When I finally decide to see a doctor with what would later turn out to be a pneumonia I am prepared to spend hours in the „VozAndes“ hospital in Quito, Ecuador.
Who would have thought that it would be rather a slap stick comedy… :-D
What terrifying things we heard about Medellin from our friends and family. A murder city with an incredible high rate of crime. It’s incredibly unsafe, especially at night. You might be shot by some drug dealers or will at least be robbed. You must be crazy to go there.
Well, the city still has a very bad reputation due to the events in the 80’s and 90’s. The famous drug lord Pablo Escobar lived in Medellin. But he is just one of the famous persons involved in the drug war during that time.
Hi, I am Manu. A year ago I decided that I need a break from the daily routine as a software engineer and quit my job. With my boyfriend I will travel the world for the next months. And I will share all the pictures, stories and whatever comes my way in this blog.
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