I remember I was having lunch with my family in Quito. My backpack was ready and after a while I said "I'm leaving" and booked a few nights at La Cigale hostel, with breakfast included. My parents dropped me off at the bus station and told me "take care, my boy." I went up and sat down. I remembered thinking about my dog, I remember that it hurt a lot to leave Tomás, but he was in good hands. This is how this backpacking began.
We picked the 10 best photos of Cuenca, Ecuador by Instagrammers! You can also read about our trip to Cuenca in the South America Saga. Moreover, you can read how this adventure started here in this link. These are the winners!
Today, after half a year in quarantine, I begin to write about my trip to Asia in early 2020, when the virus was not pandemic, just endemic. Despite the stigma that Asia carries for being the cradle of the virus, in this segment I want to show how I experienced its culture, its people, its places and food.
Before Covid-19 forced us to stay still and at home, I had the opportunity to travel around Asia. In this blog I leave you the best photos of each location that I visited in my trip during a month between January and February 2020.
It was a 75-day trip, 75 stories of this great adventure. It was more than great actually, because of everything that crossed in my way, because of the few places I planned to see and the many more places that I didn't plan to see; because of the people I met and the experiences I retained on each path towards a new destination.
A few years ago we toured 4 countries in South America backpacking through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. These are some photos of the places we visited: Cuenca, Cajas National Park, Lima, Machu Picchu, the Salt flats, Copacabana, the Atacama Desert and Torres del Paine! Read more about the Saga: South America here and follow us on this trail.
The sun fights a daily battle. It is one of the reasons we are here, but it will also be one of the reasons why we will not be. Subscribe here to our Youtube channel for more stories. (Video with English subtitles).
"Twenty minutes ago I had a thick, bitter shot of Ayahuasca, an ancestral drink made from the decoction of the homonymous plant and another called "chacruna", which contains the hallucinogen DMT."
In his book, Saramago creates a scenario for a country where death ceases to exist. From this, various activities and businesses are developed. A context that we can compare with what has happened in the midst of a pandemic in Ecuador.
