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  • Buenos Aires : A kind of place that we like

    07 August 2015 ( #Argentina, #Games )

    We were really happy to arrive in Buenos Aires and especially to stay with Leo, a friend we met more than one year ago in Tanzania!! Seeing again people that we met on the road is so nice!!! We were supposed to stay 3-4 in this big city but we ended up...

  • From Sydney to Melbourne : An incredible fauna, beautiful landscapes but a very cold weather !!

    17 May 2015 ( #Australia )

    This time, the last part of our Australian road trip has started! We will share the ride with Thomas a German chef!!! This last section of the trip will be… full of animals! As you already know, we love animals (as much as games!!!!) and we saw plenty...

  • Merida : other Maya ruins but mostly the discovery of the cenotes!

    06 January 2016 ( #Mexico )

    After our night bus (one of the most horrible trips because with chikungunya and all our pain, it was not very nice), it took us two days to rest and get back on our feet again!!! Once fit, we enjoyed the most of the region. We met Manuel, the friend...

  • Easter Island or the mysterious statues !!!

    15 July 2015 ( #Chile, #Easter Island )

    I suppose it is not necessary to present you Easter Island, this small island lost in the Pacific Ocean and which hosts hundreds of statues called “Moaï”. Today this land belongs to Chile but it is most likely that the first inhabitants were from Polynesia! The...

  • From Wellington to Auckland : The beauties of the North Island !

    24 June 2015 ( #New Zealand )

    After more than 3 weeks in the South Island, we are now on the North Island!! Our car kept quiet on the ferry but Romain almost got seasick… We arrived in Wellington (the capital city of NZ) under a grey sky but it didn’t really bothered us and we walked...

  • Our bags content!

    18 April 2014 ( #Advice )

    D-7 !!! It’s now time to reveal what will be the content of our house that we will carry on our back during more than 18 months! OK, not like this man. Principal house The most difficult choice was for sure the trekking bag. After reading many of our...

  • The Grand Canyon: a breath-taking landscape

    26 February 2016 ( #USA )

    After our Texan trip and our crossing in New Mexico, we drove to Arizona to admire one of the wonders of Nature that we expected since the beginning of the trip: the Grand Canyon!! Along the way, we even had a chance to drive on the famous route 66. The...

  • Las Vegas: the glitz and fun !!!

    02 March 2016 ( #USA )

    Just after our helicopter flight we hit the road to Las Vegas. We arrived at night, we crossed the desert and a few dozen kilometers before reaching the city we began to see a halo of light in the distance. The car drove over a small hill and there, Las...

  • San Cristobal de Las Casas: a mixture of Spanish and indigenous culture.

    27 December 2015 ( #Mexico )

    After a night bus (yes one more... but it should be one of the 2 lasts of our all trip), we arrived in San Cristobal de Las Casas, a small town high in colour. This was one of the first towns built in Continental America and its architecture takes us...

  • Palenque: beautiful ruins and chikungunya...

    30 December 2015 ( #Mexico )

    After our crazy stay in San Cristobal (we didn’t tell you everything ... but let's say we enjoyed a lot of Mexican wines), we went lost in the jungle of Palenque. The city of Palenque has no real charm, however the ruins are really beautiful ... but before...

  • Campeche and Chetumal: A special Christmas special but some beautiful meetings!

    07 January 2016 ( #Mexico )

    We arrived in Campeche where Valeria was waiting us at the bus station (The daughter of a friend of Romain) and led us to her grandmother’home where we will spend 3 nights !!! Campeche is a colourful and fortified City: Once the target of pirates, a fortress...

  • La Paz : Games and Walks !!!

    18 September 2015 ( #Bolivia, #Games )

    After our tip in Jurassic World, we went to La Paz. It is not the Capital city of Bolivia but “almost”. Actually the President lives in La Paz and 2 of the 3 democratic powers are in La Paz: Executive and Legislative. Only the Judiciary is in Sucre, the...

  • San Pedro de Atacama : Welcome in the driest desert of the world !

    28 August 2015 ( #Chile )

    As we did not visit Patagonia (because it is winter time), we could not pass without visiting the driest desert of the world!!! So we went to San Pedro de Atacama (in the desert of the same name)!!! We loved it!!! Between incredible landscapes and interesting...

  • Oregon and Washington a lot of rain but good times!!!

    18 March 2016 ( #USA )

    After California, we continued our road trip to the North towards Seattle: our last town on the West Coast before flying to New York. We were warned: the weather at this time of year is a bit temperamental ... So yes, we had a lot of rain but this did...

  • Halong bay….Or more exactly Lan Ha Bay

    15 February 2015 ( #Vietnam )

    When we speak about Vietnam, the first think which comes in mind is Halong bay. You don’t know it?? But it’s a Unesco World Heritage!!! Halong bay is composed by thousands of limestone rocks coming out of the water. “Halong” means “descending dragon”...

  • Mendoza and Cordoba : Wine, impossible hitch Hiking and…San Martin !

    30 July 2015 ( #Argentina )

    To go to Argentina it was “complicated”!!! To avoid paying a high price to take the bus to Mendoza, we decided to hitch hike from Santiago. We went near a highway (not ON a highway) with our small black board indicating “Argentina” and we waited. One...

  • Dalat – An amazing canyoning day !

    28 February 2015 ( #Vietnam )

    After a night in a bus, 2 hours of waiting in front of an agency in the early morning and 5 hours bus ride, we finally arrived in Dalat, town well known for its wine (neither really good, nor really bad…) but also for its canyoning!! Was is canyoning?...

  • Iguazu : One of the most beautiful places we’ve seen so far!

    18 August 2015 ( #Argentina )

    You probably heard about the Iguazu falls, 3 times bigger than the Niagara Falls and even larger than the Victoria Falls!!! The « Cataratas de Iguazu » are at the border between Brazil and Argentina; they measure more than 2,7km and are composed by 275...

  • Potosi : an astonishing miner's city

    01 September 2015 ( #Bolivia )

    As we were going to Sucre, the capital city of Bolivia, we decided to stop in Potosi on the way, a miner’s city. The city is (or more exactly was) famous for its silver founded on the mountain dominating the town (“Cero Rico” meaning “Rich mountain”)...

  • Tamarindo Manuel Antonio: The Pacific coast in all its glory !!!

    29 November 2015 ( #Costa Rica )

    After our few days on the Atlantic coast, we crossed the country to see the other side. We stopped on the road near the Arenal Volcano but the fog was so dense that we did not even notice it was there... (the We were able to swim in the crater lake of...

  • Tulum, Playa del Carmen and Cancun: Sea, sun and diving !!!

    13 January 2016 ( #Mexico )

    Here we come to the end of our stay in Mexico, and between the New Year, diving, sun and music it was a beautiful "finish"! These three destinations are touristy places with "chic" and fashionable resorts... A priori, not really what we like ... but to...

  • Santiago and Valparaiso : our first steps in South America !

    29 July 2015 ( #Chile )

    Bye bye Easter Island…and bye bye Oceania!!! We are now landing in South America in Santiago de Chile! Chile is a looooong country between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Cordilleras! But in Santiago, it is really hard to see the mountains because of...

  • After the Galapagos: few days in Ecuador and Panama before going to Costa Rica!

    10 November 2015 ( #Ecuador, #Panama )

    After our 12 incredible days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, we're back on the South American continent ... but not for long! We first went to Mindo, in Ecuador and where we could swim in the (very cold) river in the middle of tropical forest, but...

  • Nazca and its mysterious lines : Be careful with air sickness!

    13 October 2015 ( #Peru )

    After our long walk to the Machu Picchu it wasn’t enough for us and we went to Arrequipa to visit the Colca Canyon. Unfortunately Romain got sick and we decided to take a rest in Nazca. Nazca is a town in the desert known for its “lines”. You didn’t hear...

  • Oaxaca: chocolate, ruins and a petrified waterfall ...

    27 December 2015 ( #Mexico )

    After our first steps in the Mexican capital, we went to Oaxaca. Besides being a beautiful colonial town and also including some archaeological sites (the ruins of the Zapotec civilization), Oaxaca is also known for its Mezcal, a local alcohol (we tasted...

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