Posts Tagged ‘Alexandra Allover’
Everything you need to know about entering Bolivia by car 🇧🇴
When we crossed over from Brazil to Bolivia by car we had no idea that this would become the most complicated border crossing we’ve had in our over two years of overlanding South America. Here I collect the most important information about entering Bolivia by car: vehicle permits and documents, toll stops, Sigemig / Digemig…
Read MoreMy experience at the Casa de Dom Inácio in Abadiânia – a world-famous healing place 🇧🇷
Before you start reading, take a look inside the Casa de Dom Inácio in Abadiânia: I didn’t really know anything about Abadiânia before we arrived there. Probably we would have never visited if our new friend Jutta hadn’t invited us to meet her at her Pousada in this small town close to Brasilia. Already…
Read MoreOur invitation to the Austrian Embassy in Brasília 🇧🇷
About ten weeks into our stay in Brazil we received an interesting message. The Austrian ambassador invited us to dinner at the embassy in Brasília. Despite having traveled in Brazil for almost nine months within the last two years, we had never seen the capital of Brazil. Brasília is located in the middle of the…
Read MoreOur 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 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 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 five major points: Aggravating taxi drivers (they honk…
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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