Around the world

30 Jun

3 Days in the Desert

29 Jun

San Pedro de Atacama

fiesta a san pedro de atacama

28 Jun

Salta-San Pedro de Atacama (Chile)

Finally the bus company tells us that the Paso de Jama road (around 5300m) has been cleared from snow and that we can leave for Chile. The ride is magnificent, form Salta (around 1000m) it’s all up, we pass Jujuy, Pumamarca, Salinas Grande and finally after an incredible valley, get to the Argentinian border (4000m). From there the road keeps on climbing and we get into the highest part of the Atacama desert (the driest worldwide) where the Andean cordillera is mainly made of 6000m high volcanoes. As we start descending we are at 5300m, it’s the highest point of the whole trip and the headache we all have confirms it. A short ride down, some customs formalities and we’re in Chile.

San Pedro is a town like there are in every country: small, pretty and full of tourists. It is a pleasant place to stay and the fact that we’re there during the year’s biggest celebration makes everything even better. The day of San Pedro y Pablo is when all the local and neighboring communities converge to San Pedro to venerate the town protector with a parade of dance, music and alcohol (not necessary to mention that the night was short).

25 Jun

Stuck in Salta

We were supposed to leave Salta for Chile asap, but it was snowing up there at 5300m so our bus was canceled tree days in a row. Instead we enjoyed our last moments in Argentina by eating as much meat as we could. VIVA LA PARILLA!

23 Jun

Humahuaca-Iruya-Salta

Iruya

Well it was a long day on the road but just fantastic. The morning was meant to be a 50 km – 2 hours and a half of driving to a small village named Iruya so you can imagine the road conditions. Well we could have been on time if we hadn’t flat the tire about 10 km after the start. Mhhh- Mhhh. We kind of agreed to keep going with the spare tire. Apparently and according to the bus driver, in this small village, somebody is repairing tires…not sure but we will see. And the guy was right, so in 45 min and for …2 Swiss francs we had a brand new old tire! The village is a tranquil place with amazing surroundings with impressive colorful mountains. It really worthed the long ride. Back to Humahuaca, we continued to the famous “Quebrada de Humahuca” and the “Sierro de siete Colores” at Pumamarca. It is a marvel. Let you enjoy the pictures.

22 Jun

Salta-Humahuaca

Unfortunately the train de las Nubes (of the clouds) isn’t working anymore, so instead we rented a Fiat punto for two days to follow part of the same way. That was an excellent idea. The road was amazing (even though really bumpy for our small old car). Mountains were colorful and cactus were shining under the sun. The first stop was under the third highest bridge in the world (4700m). Well, our breath was short…we were still not acclimatized to the altitude. Then we headed to “Salinas Grande” which is a salt flat of the small lake size. Pretty amazing. They extracted the salt here making small piles to let it dry out and the next step is on your table… .

We spend the night in Humahuaca, nice and quiet cobbled village.

21 Jun

Salta

19 Jun

Valle Fertil, Ischigualasto, Talampaya

After leaving Mendoza we got to San Agustin de Valle Fertil, a small village the is known among travelers only for being the starting point for trips to the Ischigualasto (moon valley) and Talampaya parks. Once we got to hostel we met Thierry, a Fribourgeois we had met in Malargüe coupple of days ago and a Spanish couple. We spent the evening eating asado (typical Argentinian BBQ), drinking wine and watching Argentina vs. Brasil for the world cup qualification.

In the morning we leave for our long day visiting the two geologically incredible parks (UNESCO . Our first stop is at Ischigualasto, one of the only places where a complete superior triassic sediment series is visible. As well, the oldest dinosaur fossil was found here. The nickname of the site is valley of the moon, and as you can see on the pictures it is a very good nickname.

The place was formed (or better said put in this state) during the formation of the Andes around 100 mio years ago when the Nazca plate and the South american plate collided and created a subduction zone. The old triassic (250 to 205 mio years ago) lake sediments where then pushed up in a 45° angle by the subducting Nazca plate forming the nowadays visible series.

Ischigualasto is an incredible landscape marked by different colors like red, green, orange, yellow and gray coming from the different mineral composition of the sediments. Furthermore, the seasonally torrential rainsand the high winds create an extreme erosion that contributes in shaping the moon-like landscape.

After visiting the park’s museum where fossils and reconstructions of the oldest dinosaurs are shown we get on our van again and 2 hours later we’re at Talampaya.

Talampaya is geologically similar to Ischigualasto (although the series visible here are from the inferior triassic) but geomorphologically the two parks have nothing in common. In Talalmpaya the main erosion was (and is) fluvial, resulting in a huge canyon. At the beginning of the canyon we see some rock arts that show how the locals ancestors hunted and farmed guanacos (the local llama). The further we get into the canyon the more spectacular it gets, high walls of about 200m with condors flying around and some vegetation at the bottom, very very cool! As well we experience the best echo ever, from a special spot (like a big u eroded into the wall) the canyon repeats full sentences up to four times.

Around six our driver drops us off at an intersection where a bus is supposed to pass by and take us to La Rioja and then to Salta. After two hours of waiting in the local store-restaurant-ticket office-bus stop house having some cheese and wine and counting 5 cars passing by, the bus arrives and we’re off to Salta.

17 Jun

Aconcagua at 6968 mts

6968 m, the highest point of the Americas, this is the Mt. Aconcagua, 3 hours SW of Mendoza. Of course, many people come here to conquer this giant, but not many do that in June (beginning of the southern hemisphere’s winter) and neither do we. Anyway, being so close to it we decide to go for a stroll at its foot.

The tree hours bus ride to Puente del Inca are awesome. We pass form beautiful wine country trough the magnificent pre-Andes and then up to over 3000m at Puente del Inca. Here some hot sulfur springs formed an awesome natural bridge where before a huge flood in the 40s a thermal hotel was found.

From there we start walking uphill for about an hour to reach the mirador (viewpoint) del Aconcagua. The mountain is a pretty impressive view although, being already at 4000 it didn’t seem soooo impossible (in fact, in summer it’s a “pretty accessible” climb – in about 10-15 days almost anybody can do it).

At the mirador we decide to continue a bit further to get to the Aconcagua national park entrance from where the actual climb starts. On the we we spot an hare and a 8 dogs… yep regular city dogs like anywhere in South america.

On the way back to Mendoza we see couple of condors and we enjoy the pre andine scenery in the sunset light.

15 Jun

Mendoza

So, here we are, the wine-country of mendoza. All the best argentinian wines come from her and of curse, we’re goin to taste as many as possible.

We dedicated the first and second day to visiting the lovely city, watching euro08 games, eating and drinking fine and working on the usual web project.

The last day we (Sarah, Me and Vincent – a swiss guy we met at the hostel) take a bus to the nearby town Maipu of where all the vineyards are. Once we get there we try to rent a bike but we decide that it is too expensive and that hitchhiking will do.

First stop the wine museum, unfortunately we get there 10 minutes to late and we have to wait after the lunch break so we decide to go and look for some food. The only thing nearby is the “Chateaux de la Griffouniere” a small wine house that prepares awesome empanadas. We buy a dozen empanadas, 2 bottles of wine and have a mini picnic. An our late we return to the museum (late again) and we get to join an already started visit. At the end we get to taste a generous glass of very good malbec. A short walk and some hitchhiking and we get to the next wine makers where a young pretty girl (Vincent is in love) shows us around and lets us taste four different wines. At the end we decide to buy one more bottle and sit down in the vineyards to debate some post modern philosophy issues… ;-)

Another hitchhike on the back of a truck and a small bus ride and we’re back in mendoza ready for some great spagetti alla carbonara!

13 Jun

Las Leñas – Malarguë

For the French speaking people, the opening day of the “Las Lenas” ski resort was a live remake of the movie “Les bronzés font du ski”. That day was free for everybody so 14 buses of students from Mendoza showed up for this occasion with Mam and Dad outfits from the 70’s…sssoooo funny. Not to say the lifts are going pretty well with this decade. In other words, you could have been in Europe 30 years ago. No kidding. Our friend from Steamboat, Axel, who is working there in our “summer season” told us not to take one lift that is so old he find it dangerous.

We hadn’t our ski stuff with us so we composed with what we had. I ended up skiing in……jeans!!!!!Even the people in Fluo Killy suits were laughing.

11 Jun

San Rafael

San Raphael is the place where our friend from Steamboat Axel live the rest of the year and it is on the way to Las Leñas where we want to ski!!! and guess what! there is wineries around…founded by swiss people! we visited the “Suter” one. the difference between home and Argentina is that they produced is really big quantity..so it doesn’t have the charm of a small cave with a small production. Anyway the wine is good and…so cheap! a good bottle cost between 3 and 10 chf. Argentina is probably the only place in the world where you see backpackers drinking wine every night!

08 Jun

Bariloche again

During the following 2 days in Bariloche the weather was really bad! rain and a lot of winds…so our days were composed of euro cup sessions and work!

07 Jun

Bariloche

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCO !!! we had a delicious fondue (mmmmh) in a restaurant called “le chalet suisse”! the guys was originaly from Zurich!

06 Jun

Bariloche (Colonia Suiza)

With the swiss national team playing that day, we thought that we could visit a small village nearby called colonia suiza and watch the match with swiss people because this place has been founded by two swiss French family (the mermod and the goys) about 3 generations ago.What a bad idea! To get there, we were supposed to take the bus…45min later and no bus we hitchhiked with success. The village really looked like a small Switzerland with little chalet and swiss flags all over the place but unfortunately the weather was not on our side! it was raining cats and dogs and as it was “only” 11 a.m everything was closed…A nice guys found us 30 min quasi in an hypothermic state in front of his chocolate shop and offered us the Argentine hospitality: mate in his shop. He told us that no more swiss were leaving there and …that they didn’t had cable TV!let’s go back to the hostel with the first bus! the hostel had a big flat screen television…(no comment on the result!)

05 Jun

El Bolson – Bariloche

We are in well-know Bariloche. The place is wonderful, we could be in Lausanne and it would be the same! lake and mountains in front. They just took OUR St-Bernard dogs as they were from argentina….pfffff!

04 Jun

El Bolson

El bolson is settled in a really nice place, surrounded by high mountains, unfortunately it is raining so we don’t really get the chance to visit this place. Only the small local “feria”, with a few hippies standing behind their stands and selling their own marmalade or wristband in order to survive…you know what i mean….

03 Jun

El Chalten to Saramiento

After the awesome days at el Chalten we decide to move a bit back north. Patagonia in winter is great but unfortunately in low (if not death) season and a lot of services are not available anymore. Our plan was to hit north on the Ruta 40 which winds trough the Andes up all the way to Bariloche. Unfortunately, the last company to cut down this service did it last week… :( everybody tells us to go back to Rio Gallego and from there to Bariloche… no way! So we look for alternatives and find a small company that runs a minibus across the country and not in a v shape down to the bottom of Patagonia and then up again… not bad, saves 8hours and 700 Km… Only thing they run the service 3 times a week… in summer :/ well we’re lucky, in winter it’s once a week and right now.
Beside the driver realizing that he forgot his license after 40 min and having to go back to get it, all goes smoothly… we get on the Atlantic coast by 10 right when Federer is playing at Roland Garros. We watch the game and 2 hours later are off to Saramiento, well almost. On the way we have a stop from 18 to 20.30 in Caleta Olivia where we plan to have dinner… Game: try to find an open restaurant before 8…
Finally at 00.30 we get to Saramiento… well not the paradise but we find an “hotel” (that’s what they claim to be) and fall asleep.
We stopped here to visit a petrified forest nearby. So after looking for an hour to find a coffee we hire a taxi to take us there. On the way we see a local kind of ostrich and once we get there we are really positively surprised, the town kind of turned us down but the landscape here is great. Weird colors, mountains made of sand and ashes, really slippery silt, a fox and petrified stems make it for a great little trip. The highlight are the petrified stems (buried in marine sediments 65mio years ago when the region was a flourishing lagoon full of dinosaurs) and now getting to the surface thanks to the action of water and wind erosion.
We spend the afternoon in a “cafe” writing blog entries and at 00.30 we’ll take of ti El Bolson near Bariloche.

01 Jun

cerro torre

well let’s do it again. An other trail but this time a close up to the cerro torre. I let you enjoy…

31 May

fitz roy trail

Really nice 4 hours trail with a closer view on the fitz roy summit. I would like to show you but (HUh huh) I forgot our camera…. I can say that it was damned freezing and that walking in the snow without high boots is…refreshing!

30 May

el calafate – el chalten

it was an “only” a 4 hours drive to el chalten (hihaaaa)! there was even a “pee stop” in the middle of nowhere. Just a “panaderia” that we seemed to wake up! For the explanation, the sun rise around 9.30 a.m here so everything you do around this time is really early for the locals. Anyway it was really funny, among the customers..a cow and a guanaco ( it is like a lama/alpaca). At the same time, we discovered that guanacos could be domesticated. They are acting like dogs.

Marco’s note: “Remakably enough, on the panaderia window full of stickers the coolest one was “un cuore bianco-blu”… for the non hockey fans it’s a simbol for the hockey club ambri piotta… I wonder how many sportteams worldwide have their stickers 15000 Km from home ona a remote panaderias window…”
The arrival in el chalten is amazing: perfect weather with no clouds. The Fitz Roy range is majestic so we decided to go walking for a while after finding an hostel for the night. In the bible lonely, it was written that most of the town was closed during the low season but we didn’t expect some kind of total shut down. After an hour walking in this small town, we found one and it looked that we were the only tourist staying for the night!

29 May

Perito Moreno


One of the only stable (not getting smaller) glaciers in the world is the Perito Moreno glacier, that happens to be just an hour from where we lodge… (maybe that’s why we’re there…)
The other really cool thing about this glacier is that it ends in a lake and it continuously calves (blocks of ice breaks from the glacier into the water – it is how icebergs are born).
We get there really early (at 10.00 and it’s barely day) and so we are the first “tourists” (in “” bacause the real tourists get there by noon with guides etc…
The morning hours are really cool, I mean cold! And cool! Everything is quite and we can ear the ice crack and twist under it’s own weight and from time to time a big block falls into the lake, a real spectacle! (my geographer heart is going nuts ;-) )

27 May

Puerto Madryn – El Calafate

Getting to Southern Patagonia is not really tricky, it just takes a fair amount of either time or money… you know what we have more no!? After the 18H from BA to Puerto Madryn we add 20 to Rio Gallego (for my Geography friends 52° S and just a couple of Hours from the Magellan strait), 5 of waiting for the next connection and 4 to El Calafate hour destination. We where supposed to get here in the afternoon but we got here past midnight.
Wednesday we just walk around the small town trying to figure out how our plan for the next day will look like. Well good news Perito Moreno and Chalten (Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy) are ok, bad news, the ruta 40 is not being offered anymore… too much snow and ice :(

26 May

Diving with Sea Lions

DIVE VIDEO___

Oh my god we were so excited! diving with sea lions, can you imagine that! It was luckily a beautiful day and it helped us putting our 2 x 6mm wet suit on, which -i translate- means that it was going to be damned cold. And it was…13 ° C! ouahhhhhhhhh ( that’s what we sayed when the water penetrated our wetsuit). Anyway we were so happy to be there, surrounded by hundreds of sea lions. They are just phenomenal under the water, gracious, fast …and soft! like a puppy! their curiosity make them behave like dogs, so that you can touch them. I let you enjoy! (and don’t smile because we are not moving…yes, it was COLD

25 May

Whales in Puerto Madryn

After a 19 hours bus ride from BA, we are kind of tired (even though the bus are comfi it’s boring, very boring) but the weather is wonderful so we decided to have our late lunch on the beach. it was weird, we thought we were both hallucinating but finally after asking each other, it is ture! those things emerging in front of us are whales! that’s pretty cool, they ( 4 of them ) are playing and jumping in front of us ( and we don’t even have to pay!!).

23 May

Off to Patagonia

One of my (and Sarah’s) dream trips has always been Patagonia… A remote place with beautiful rugged landscapes. We always hear from friends or fellow traveler that it’s an amazing place and we definitely should go once…

well, our plan was to head to Mendoza and region after our awesome week in BA… BUT, 2 days ago it changed! While discussing where and when to go we thought that we would love to go skiing one day or so, we checked when the ski resorts open and it turns out to be in 3 weeks… well what to do? by then we would be almost in Bolivia… And then the great idea: live our dream trip… despite the imminent winter we’re going south!

SOOOOO COOOOL! In a couple of hours we’ll take the 17 h bus to Puerto Madryn near the peninsula Valdez and then we’ll see! so, it’s definitely started now!

cheers, Marco

23 May

Buenos Aires 16-23.5

After almost a year leaving in small places, it is now time for some days in a big city… Buenos Aires is the starting point of our South American trip. We arrive on a Friday morning in a fairly destroyed status since the plane had a personal entertainment console with dozens of movies, series, documentaries and of course games to choose from… so bottom-line i slept 3 H and Sarah 30 minutes…
In BA we stay at a friend of Sarah’s place, Rüdiger (or as his Argentinian girlfriend Marilla calls him: Schüdi – to denote the special way to speak that Argentines have in respect of “R” at the beginning of a word or of “ll” in whichever position.
Schüdi is a great host, after having us walk 31 blocks (we still don’t know if he typed wrong or if Sarah copied wrong – we went to Juncal 310b and he lives at 3102b… a small 2 that means a lot!!!) he had prepared us his super confy couch left us some info and we finally met him the evening after work.
For dinner we HAD to go for meat, a lot of meat… it’s Argentina no!?
Saturday we had a slow morning, great brunch, nap a bit of work and… Futbol… yep we went to a Boca Juniors match! Very cool, foremost the prematch (see pic.) and when boca scored the 2-1 at the 96’!!!
The rest of the week was also really easy-going, walk around, visit museums, eat meat, a tango show, drink mate, learn about Argentina’s past and work a bit…
On Tuesday we met with our friend Lucas and had a great time discussing thousand of things while having mate and pastelitos!
Wednesday, on a gray morning, we where trying to figure out a plan on how to get to go skiing here in Argentina. Well, the thing is that the season starts on the 13th of June and by then we might already be in Bolivia if we stick to the original plan… who cares about the plan… Friday we leave for Patagonia!

13 May

Miami

So, after a month in Playa is time to move to Miami and visit our friends Mike and Elena. We met them in Curacao when they were having a vacation after flying their boss to his boat… yep they are jet pilots! very cool!

CU

11 May

Technical Cave Diving

So, finally I’ve done it… After trying several times to take a Technical cave diving course and not being able to squeeze it into out plans, this time I managed to get in touch with Steve Bogaerds and organize the course over the last 3 days. Was really cool, and I learned a lot.

Yesterday, as certification dive we went to the Southern SacBé in sistema Naharon. A deeper and much darker cave that remembered me of our caves at home. I had a lot to do, dealing with 1 stage, 1 deco bottle, my doubles on the back, 70m of primary reel 3 jumps to the left, dropping the stage, go trough restrictions, halocline,… all very cool! and just now I’v got my little C-card ;D

10 May

It’s been a year…

well, we were supposed to leave Switzerland for 6 months and here we are, still around after a full year and 4 more months to go!!! really cool… taratatataaaa I’m lovin’ it!

03 May

la cucaracha, la cucaracha….lalalala!

not to say that having a cockroach in your pant is really, really disgusting! Well, that’s the joy of going to the bathroom here in Mexico. ( note to myself: never ever experience that again)

30 Apr

Life in Playa

Well, at the moment we are enjoying the sun of Playa del Carmen, kind of a second home in Mexico for me.
Also, we are working a big webdesign project wich is taking up a lot of time, but it’s very interesting!
Also, I’m (Marco) trying to organize a technical cave diving course… we’ll see what happens.

C u Marco

15 Apr

Snow to Beach

:) Like yin and yang, winter and summer, snow and sand come and go…
And yes, after a loooong snooooowy winter, we are in mexico again!

it’s awesome to feel nice and warm again!

cheers Marco

14 Apr

Our only spring day of the year in Denver

Yep, today was the one and only spring day in our 2008… and we spent it in the beautiful city center of Denver!

06 Apr

At 489 Inches we close

Oh well, what to say… It was a S-N-O-W-Y winter!!!
Today, closing day for steamboat, we got up ready for a sunny spring day… but no, it was snowing again… 489 inches of wonderful snow fell on “The Boat” this winter! great!

now, we’re at home, we just had dinner and are ready to go celebrate this awesome winter. though, looking out and watching all this snow still falling makes me a bit sad, it’s a shame that business decisions rule everything…

well… in 7 days we’ll be in playa and next winter might be even better ;-)

Cheers Marco

21 Mar

450′ of Snow in Steamboat


STEAMBOAT POSTS RECORD BREAKING CHAMPAGNE POWDER® SNOW SEASON

With more than 37 feet (11.5 m) of Champagne Powder® snow this winter, the Steamboat Ski Resort will finish the 2007/2008 season in record fashion, breaking its previous season snow record of 447.75 inches set in 1996/1997.

And We ARE Here!!!

c u soon with the upcoming trip to mexico and South America!!!

06 Dec

Beach to Snow

The BIG day… We move to winter!!!
With all our diving gear we take the direct flight to Denver, Colorado where some, hopefully, good snow will be waiting for us.

05 Dec

179 min in Nohoch Nah Chich

Well, what to say, the 5th of December in Playa is becoming a traditional day for wonderful long cave dives: last year was 132 minutes in Sac Aktun going to cenote Bosh, this year 179min in Nohoch Nah Chic. Same as last year it was hard to organize the dive but it was mooooore than worthed! the dive plan Nico came up with involved 1 80cuft stage, 4 jumps and a couple of T-junction. we dove it smoothly and enjoyed a lot! thanks Nico

03 Dec

Diving Tajma Ha and Chikin Ha


Finally-we-made it do go diving a Cenote with el Dengue, an old friend from my IDC, I decide to take them to Tajma Ha and Chikin Ha, two cenotes that are not so famous among cavern divers but are definetly worthed the visit!!! we had 2 really good dives! and lot of fun!

02 Dec

Beach Day

Today there is finally wind in playa… So we hope Sarah might get to kitesurf a bit… “unfortunately”, wind means also that Mickey has to work with his kite students… so we just hang out on the beach and enjoy the sun… anyway we’ll be back!!!

01 Dec

Diving Gran Cenote and Dos Ojos


Being a diver in Yucatan and not going to the Cenotes would be almost a capital sin ;-) so I took Sarah for some dives… first we drove to Tulum to go to Gran Cenote. After a great dive, we jumped in the car and after a quick check of Cenote Calavera we drove to Dos Ojos, one of the most beautiful and visited cenotes. Although it was getting dark, Sarah loved it! and I was suuuuper happy!

Cheers Marco

30 Nov

Merida – Playa

So So, we’re getting close to our last stop of our awesome trip… Playa del Carmen. After a slow morning in merida we try to take a bus that does not exist and after some running around we are moving… the 4 hour trip is confortable (yes, mexican busses are definitly another class) and i’ve plenty of time to think about what I want to show to / do with Sarah in Playa (for the ones that do not know, I lived in playa 5 months last summer). Well it turns out that there is a lot that I want to show her, foremost Bars, Restaurants and Cenotes.
As we get to playa we go to hotel moms get a room and go to la famiglia for a REAL PIZZZZA!!! mmmmmm yummmy, this Italian immigrants are tooo cool! After the superb meal, we go to la ranita where, guess what, I meet some old friends, too cool, exactly as if I left yesterday!
cheers Marco

29 Nov

Uxmal and Merida

28 Nov

Caye Caulker – San Pedro – Corozal – Chetumal – Merida


LOOOOONG trip today… we first wanted to go to Belize city and then bus to Merida, but sitting at the dock after 2 days of rain and being only 30 min from “La isla bonita” (san pedro … remember the Madonna song?) made us change our plan… we went to san pedro spent couple of hours swimming and on the beach then 2 h boat ride to Corozal then bus to the border, walk over the omnipresent bridge, bus to Chetumal, horrible super expensive pastas and finally night bus to Mérida… well we actually wanted to get off earlier but the bus was to confortable and we missed our stop…

27 Nov

Rain and chill in Caye Caulker

oh, well… Caribbean doesn’t always mean sun… but being in Caye Caulker in a rainy day is a really relaxing thing… you basically don’t do anything!

26 Nov

Diving the Blue Hole

We had signed up to dive the magical and famous Blue Hole (don’t worry, if you are not a diver, you won’t know it!). It was a 2 hour boat ride to get there, so I took my motion sickness pills. I was little anxious of the pills effect plus the deep dive and I felt myself pretty high but I guess this the good attitude if you have 10 sharks surrounding you. I found them really beautiful in this dark blue water ( yeah it is dark at 42m deep!). There were Bull and black tip sharks. Not bad. We then stopped on a protected island for the lunch break. The weather was horrible and it was pretty cold. We saw lots of birds called bubbies, with red throat that work like a chewing gum bubble when they want to flirt with femals… The next 2 dives were really nice. Wonderful colors, lots of fishes and sponges. The ride home was long and agitated, but it was worth it.

25 Nov

Flores – Caye Caulker

Let’s go to Belize! the day is a transit day to the Caye Caulker island. But I just wanted to add that for the first time being French and carrying a French pass is not sooo bad! Marco had to pay 25 $ to enter Belize! hihihi! And it was free for me..

24 Nov

Tikal

The advertising was: ” Experience Tikal by sunrise” ..mhh.. appealing! We thought less people, good light to take picture, Let’s sign up! The mini bus picked us up at 3.45 a.m. As usual, I was really lucky to get in the bus at last. No more seat for me, so I had to sit somewhere between the sits and the door. Bouhhh! I wanted to finish my kind of night during the 1 hour drive! When we got there we had to walk for 15 min and climb on top of a pyramid located on one side of the site, just in front of the sunrise. 5 a.m, we can not see a thing. 5.30 a.m it is event worst. the fog is so thick, we have to concentrate to see something (not to say that an hysteric u.s girl told me to shut up because it was something you could do only once in your life, so just meditate!).. at that point you are so happy to have woken up so early.
We then did the guided tour, which was pretty short and not really interesting. We discovered later one that our guide did it on purpose. He had another guided tour 1 hour later:-( Anyway, we have the “Bible ” with us, so we did the tour again. The weather went better and better, so we could take nice pictures with blue sky!

23 Nov

Rio Dulce – Flores

22 Nov

Finca el Paraiso

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