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Barra Grande, Bahia 🇧🇷 Die mühsame Anreise zu einem echten Geheimtipp

By Alexandra Allover | August 7, 2024

Von außen mag Barra Grande auf der Halbinsel Maraú wie ein unberührtes Idyll wirken, doch der Weg dorthin ist nichts für schwache Nerven. Die letzte Etappe der Anreise führt über eine 80 km lange, holprige Erdstraße, die mit unzähligen Schlaglöchern gespickt ist – eine Fahrt, die einem Schweizer Käse gleicht. Doch wer die Strapazen auf…

How Tulum helped me become a water rat (and a PADI open water diver) ☀️🤿💦

By Alexandra Allover | January 21, 2021

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…

The hardship of trying to find a place to stay in the Caribbean 🇲🇽

By Alexandra Allover | October 24, 2020

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…