Crossing the border from Panama to Costa Rica by foot was just so much easier than going through the rigmarole of airport exists/entrances – hassle-free and quick, no checking in/out of luggage, scans, or passport control checks, just a quick stamp in one’s passport at both ends, and voilà you’re through. Arriving at Puerto Viejo on …
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After the cooler weather of Valle de Anton, I decided to stick to the mountain areas and booked five nights in Santa Fe, a small town that not many people know of, but I found intriguing as I had read on a website about the clean-up and beautification that a group of people were doing …
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Back in Albrook, the bus station in Panama City, I knew exactly where to go and what to do to catch the bus to La Chorrera, where I was doing a Workaway job at La casa de Ito, a hostel owned by two brothers, Raul and Mario. Raul had told me where to get off …
When we flew into Panama from Bogotá, approaching from the Pacific Ocean, I was surprised to see we were heading northeast past Panama City and within minutes ended up almost over the Caribbean – Panama is a very narrow ‘bridge’ between South and North America. The eastern part we were flying over was mostly forests, …
Two weeks of living in the most beautiful environment, doing volunteer work on a farm called Cultivarte, 20min by local colectivo from Anapoima, Colombia. Eyal and Natalia have spent about 15 years planning, and 10 years implementing and fulfilling their dream of creating a space where they can live and propagate their healthy, natural and …
Gnats have been having a field day on me here in Colombia – the welts keep itching long after, and every new bite causes the old ones to itch again. I’m slowly becoming immune, and have bought some ointment which helps for a few hours. Other than that, I am surprisingly healthy, strong and fit, …
The flight to Colombia was via Santiago, and crossing the Andes in daylight was spectacular, even though it was summer. Being in Chile filled me with nostalgia, and I promptly ordered a pisco sour at one of the bars and sent a WApp to a family I had stayed with in Cochran, Chile, 6 years …
I had a very relaxed and interesting week in Montevideo, a city that epitomises the Uruguay approach to life. I’ll mainly post pictures, they depict what I experienced, but I cannot refrain from telling a story or two. The first one is about my arrival. The bus ride gave me the opportunity to re-establish my …
Truthfully? A tough experience last week, on different levels. And also a very enriching one, on different levels. I am reading An Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, and I was struck by the following: “All thoughts vibrate eternally in the cosmos. … Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, …
Working and travelling are contrasting activities. Travelling to me is about exploring, discovering, being attentive, walking, and sometimes interacting. It is mostly personal, invigorating and exciting. Working, on the other hand, means becoming involved, being open to forming relationships, sharing living- and life-spaces, learning about the culture and accepting that people do things differently. It …
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