It was Saturday, 7th December 2016, the official date that 11North-55South, our South American expedition, started. The rush to get back on the road had been brewing inside us for a while. No matter how many trips we have made…
After a quick overnight in Macapa (Rochelle’s favorite type of stay, "the gas station”) we boarded the barrage to Belém where our last time sailing down the Amazon proved to be as fascinating as the first one. We never had…
This part of our trip even from the very first day of planning was a headache to plan, a challenge but also something that we had been waiting for. Driving through the BR-319 and the infamous BR-230 (officially called The…
Those of you that have been following our 11North55South exhibition would probably remember that we had left La Paz, the capital of Bolivia as well as the north part of the country out of our itinerary in our last visit…
During our route through South America we came across hundreds of beautiful locations. There were some of them though that we found it difficult to leave behind and Lima was certainly one of them. Unfortunately in the overlanders’ world the…
The Pan-American highway that runs on the coast of Peru has very little to offer to an overlander as far as natural beauty goes. The landscape is dry, rocky desert with long stretches of straight asphalt. So this time on…
This time our route through Ecuador had it all: jungle, Andean peaks, city life, Pacific Coast and finally the Galapagos. As mentioned in our previous post, we left uninspiring Coca behind to find the Ecuadorian jungle. After a day’s long…
Leaving Pamplona and the hospitality of Philip behind, we had aimed to cover some distance and head south as fast as possible. However traveling through the windy cliff-hugging road in Cañón de Chicomocha, between San Gill and Bucaramanga, was one…
For those of you that have been following our trip from the beginning, you know that somewhere in this sun-soaked, dramatic part of Colombia’s Caribbean coast is the most northern point of this trip. Starting from the dense jungles of…
Where were we in last month’s post? Oh, yeah, Guatapé. Well, having a great host and a beautiful homey place to stay didn’t exactly help us make the decision to leave. So we extended our stay for an extra week.…
As we mentioned in our previous post, leaving San Agustín behind, we had planned to take over the adventurous route to Caño Cristales, a river located in la Macarena in the province of Meta. Until the mid-2010s, this area was…
Although we could see the Volcán Cotopaxi from the Quilotoa lake, its bulk and symmetrical cone took on an entirely new dimensions when we followed local advice and picked to experience it within the bounds of its own national park.…
Truth to be told, we were enjoying Lima a lot, but after eleven days, the time had come to move on. We had heard about a place further north on the coast named Tortugas that meant to look like…
When we crossed the border from Bolivia back into Chile, we had mixed feelings. Relief, as we were away from the bad roads, the dust and the cold. Happiness, as we were heading to the sun on the coast that…
Crossing the Argentina-Bolivia border north of Humahuaca, as I read the night before on the internet, was meant to be a painful long process. So the next day we arrived prepared. In reality though, everything went rather smoothly and after…
Marked as a highlight of all of South America and although super touristic, a must see of Brazil’s South is Parque Nacional do Iguaçu. This area is where Brazil and Argentina meet and where Río Iguaçu after its route of…
We were sad to say so long to Buenos Aires but the journey goes on. So after embarking the ferry, we headed 50km to the east bank of Río de la Plata and back in Colonial’s Unesco World Heritage Barrio…
To start things up and as we described in our last post, further in our plan was to travel between the towns of La Serena (in Chile) and San José de Jachal (in Argentina), a distance of 381km via a…
Our story with TD Overland Crew starts back in our previous trip. While in “The Epic Journey” and in our attempt to cross from Iran to UAE, we met Daniel, “the crazy Czech”, from Prague. Together we watched our vehicles…
When traveling in a continent like South America, no matter how much research you have done, you always get caught by surprises. Sometimes good, sometimes bad but keep in mind: these are the moments that you will most likely remember…
