After a visit to the railway cemetery in Uyuni, the next stop on our tour was the salt desert “Salar de Uyuni”, which we had been looking forward to in advance 🙂
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Our world is so incredibly beautiful and versatile and we want to explore & experience as much of it together as possible. We are Sandra and Michael from Darmstadt – commuters between full-time jobs and 30 days of vacation per year. There is a lot of wanderlust in between. And that’s why we keep pulling out into the wide or near world. Since 2012, we have been on our smaller and larger holidays by 78 Countries On travelled to all 5 continents and blog with a lot of passion about our countless adventures and experiences in our travel blog – be it from dreamlike islands, in cities of millions, on mountain peaks, in the pure wilderness or even in the depths of the oceans. Travel is our great passion and we love to get to know and write about new countries, places and cultures.
Uyuni – The old railway cemetery in the desert (Bolivia)
Today was the start of our three-day tour through the salt desert “Salar de Uyuni” and the Andina Eduardo Avaroa National Park in Bolivia with the fist stop at the old railway cemetery in the desert.
» Read the full blog postLa Paz – Things to Do & the Valle de la Luna (Bolivia)
With LAN Airlines we flew at noon from Santiago de Chile with a short stopover in Iquique to our next destination to La Paz in Bolivia. Day 35 + 36 of our trip around the world Our arrival in Bolivia Our flight from Santiago de Chile to La Paz in Bolivia went over the up to 6,500 meters high mountain range of the Andes. La Paz’s place in the world’s first La Paz was founded in 1548 and is now …
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At noon we landed well with Aerolineas Argentinas in the capital Santiago de Chile on the west coast of South America. The entry went quickly and without problems and we say “Hello Chile” 🙂
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Late at night we arrived in Buenos Aires today at the airport “Buenos Aires-Jorge Newbery”.
» Read the full blog postIguazu Falls – The waterfalls on the Argentine side (Argentina)
After we had looked at the Brazilian part of the Iguazu waterfalls yesterday, the Argentine side was still on the agenda.
» Read the full blog postIguazu Falls – A helicopter tour over the waterfalls (Brazil)
After we had explored the Iguazu waterfalls on the Brazilian side on foot this morning, we wanted to see this natural wonder again with a helicopter tour from a bird’s eye view 🙂
» Read the full blog postIguazu Falls – The waterfalls on the Brazilian side (Brazil)
We were particularly looking forward to today. Today we wanted to visit the Iguazu waterfalls, which are located directly on the border between Brazil and Argentina and have been included in the list of the Seven Wonders of Nature since 2011.
» Read the full blog postIguazu – The bird park in Foz do Iguazu (Brazil)
The flight from Sao Paulo to Foz do Iguacu with TAM Airlines passed quickly and after 1.5 hours we have already landed. Day 28 of our trip around the world Arrival in Foz do Iguazu Our hotel in Foz do Iguazu At the airport we were picked up by an employee of our booked Hotel Colonial Iguau. In addition to the perfect location to the waterfalls, the free transfer from the airport was also a reason why we chose this …
» Read the full blog postSao Paulo – Tourist Attractions, Things to Do & Photo Spots (Brazil)
During our travel planning we were told by many people that Sao Paulo is big, dirty and criminal and that there is nothing special to see there. In our opinion, the opposite is true: we are very positively surprised by Sao Paulo. Yes, the city is big, damn big even. But we found the city very modern, clean and with many beautiful places. Perception can sometimes be so different.
» Read the full blog postAmazon River – Piranha Fishing & an Indigenous Village (Brazil)
Today at Anavilhanas Village Guesthouse, we visited a village of the indigenous people of the Amazon and took a boat trip to the Rio Negro to try piranha fishing 🙂
» Read the full blog postAmazon River – The pink river dolphins “Botos” (Brazil)
From our Anavilhanas Village Guesthouse we took today with our small group a trip to the pink river dolphins “Botos” in the Amazon.
» Read the full blog postAmazon River – Jungle Walk & Boat tour on the Rio Negro (Brazil)
To get in and get to know the Amazon, we took a boat trip on the Rio Negro with our guide Roy from the Anavilhanas Village Lodge and then a short hike through the jungle.
» Read the full blog postAmazon River – Anavilhanas Village Guesthouse (Brazil)
To experience the Amazon up close, a local accommodation is best located right on the Rio Negro. On our tour we spent 3 days in the small Anavilhanas Village Guesthouse, which is lovingly run by Roy and his family.
» Read the full blog postManaus – Meeting of the Waters in the Amazon River (Brazil)
Our flight with TAM Airlines took off on time in Rio de Janeiro and landed at Eduardo Gomes Airport in Manausat around 9.30am. From here started our already booked Amazon tour, about which we will tell you in the next posts.
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