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Peru was the first country I visited in South America during the Big Trip. Well, actually, the first one of them all. Peru is the gateway of the Andes, with lots of possible hiking at high altitude, cultural adventures, wildlife and of course: Macchu Picchu! For …
Lees verderIt took us some time, but we’re finally ready with our high level planning of our approx. 2 month trip in China and SE Asia. We’ve been on the road in South America for over 5 weeks, heavily on the way and enjoying our adventures. …
Lees verderFor Belgians, New Zealand is really the other side of the world. Heck, even from China, it’s still a 13h flight. It’s hard to find more places which are that far away (well, we could go for Pitcairn Islands). Maybe it’s the distance, or maybe …
Lees verderNew Zealand will be the last destination of our big trip, where we will be traveling for almost a month. At least, that’s what we hope to do. Even though Mr. Fries does not need one, unfortunately Ms. Rice does. Our initial Big Trip schedule …
Lees verderNo kidding, we just hit the 1 month milestone. In 30 days we will set off on our biggest adventure ever. The last few weeks have been full of excitement, stressful moments, yet full of so much fun. The main focus points have been administration, planning …
Lees verderIt’s late August, we’re little over 1 month out before we set off on our Big Trip. It’s time to give a short update on our visa struggle. After Ms. Rice successfully received her Peruvian visa in July, things took up some speed in the beginning …
Lees verderIn our final part of the trilogy of planning for South America (Peru-Boliva and Chile-Patagonia), we’ll be in the Northern area of Argentina and Uruguay for almost 2 weeks. Our first part of the Big Trip will be getting to and end, yet we still plan …
Lees verderWhen we started looking at the map of South America and started our research about Chile, we realized two things: it’s a beautiful country with lots of things to see and do, but the darn place is oh so stretched (4,300 km) . Thus, we took this into …
Lees verderWhere do you start? The three most common sources we’ve been using this far are: Books: there are plenty of good ones (Lonely Planet, Frommer’s, Trotter, ….). Buy one if you want to take it on the way (heavy though) or keep as a souvenir, …
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We’ve been talking in one of our first posts about the Visa hassle for South American countries (details here). Mid June, we provided all required documentation electronically to the Peruvian Consulate of Brussels. An interview was planned on July 11th to finalize everything. After waiting for …
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