Travel
Our visit at the organic cacao farm Fazenda Recreio in Ilhéus 🇧🇷
On our trip through Brazil we met lots of people. Many of them from Europe, and weirdly… from Switzerland. I even started coming up with a reason why Swiss people and Brazil were so tightly connected. More on that later. First let me just briefly tell you the story of our visit at the Swiss cacao…
Read MoreHow to find Beautiful Brazilian hotels for $35 & get the best deals
During our 6-months-road trip through Brazil we stayed at approximately 50 places. Most of them were hotels or Airbnbs. In this blog post you’ll see how we found beautiful hotels for our set accommodation budget of max $ 35 per night for 2 people. Additionally, I want to share with you how we often got…
Read MoreThe Beauty of the Family in Brazil 🇧🇷
In the heart of Brazil, family means more than just parents and kids living together. It’s a vibrant tapestry of generations sharing the same space, where children, parents, and grandparents all play their part. In this setting, the idea of personal safety takes a back seat to the collective joy of everyone coming together to…
Read MoreCrossing the Trans-Amazonian Highway by Car in 11 Days 🇧🇷
Crossing the Trans-Amazonian Highway has been a dream of ours ever since we started our journey through South America in 2020. Eleven days of driving with mostly no cell phone reception. (Disclaimer: All the photos you see in this blog post are screenshots of my Youtube Video which I’ll put in the end.) That…
Read MoreThe most beautiful Sunset of Brazil in the Dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses 🇧🇷
We wanted to spend our one-year anniversary of traveling through Latin America in a special place! We chose the beautiful dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses. This wonderful place is probably the best place to watch a sunset in all of Brazil! Watch the video of our trip to the dunes: Our first year of…
Read MoreWas musst du beim Gebrauchtwagenkauf in Paraguay beachten? (Toyota Landcruiser Prado) 🇵🇾
Bei unserer ausgedehnten Autojagd in Paraguay sind wir auf einige Fallen gestoßen. Wenn du dir ein paar Tipps vor dem Gebrauchtswagenkauf bewusst machst, wirst du dir bei deinem ersten Kauf einen Vorteil verschaffen können. In diesem Beitrag wirst du erfahren, was du vor dem Autokauf zu beachten hast während der Probefahrt wichtig ist, und du…
Read MoreHow Tulum helped me become a water rat (and a PADI open water diver) ☀️🤿💦
How I became a PADI open water diver in Tulum: “Going to the beach” for me so far meant chilling on the beach and looking at the water. Not necessarily going inside, and I always had many good reasons for it: “My eyes burn from the salt water.” “I don’t want my hair to…
Read MoreDon’t fall for these tourist scams in Playa del Carmen❗️🇲🇽
Playa del Carmen is one of the most popular and touristy towns on Mexico’s Caribbean shoreline. If you enjoy a lively town, you will love it there. But don‘t fall for these common tourist scams! I can sum up our stay in Playa del Carmen in three major points: Aggravating taxi drivers (they…
Read MoreThe island of Cozumel during the hurricane 🇲🇽
Oh boy – what a week! We spent the last couple of nights on Cozumel, an island off the coast of Playa del Carmen. And since we’re now digging the island life, visiting another island seemed like a good idea.😁 Cozumel is bigger than the last island we stayed on (Isla Mujeres), so…
Read MoreThe hardship of trying to find a place to stay in the Caribbean 🇲🇽
As announced in my last post, we were going to move from the west coast of Mexico to the Caribbean coast, with first stop in Cancun. Long story short, we did not like Cancun 1. 😆🤷🏻♀️ The crappiest hotel in the Caribbean ? Not only did our hotel overbook and we had…
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