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Long distance traveling by land

June 14, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

Our experiences on the trip to Patagonia and the route to the North from Montevideo to Cartagena have made us realize that the concept of long distance traveling by land (now called “overlanding”) is a concept in flux. The differences from when we travelled around the world in 2011-12 till now are notable (and in […]

Hasta la vista Colombia

June 11, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

We spent the end of our tour in Varu (some kilometers south of Cartagena) and the last days in an Airbnb in the Crespo-barrio in Cartagena. Before shipping the Land Cruiser from the vehicle-terminal in Baru, we stayed about 12 days at the beach camping “Isla Mar”. First, we were the only ones, but after […]

Drama on route to Barranquilla

June 10, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

At this stage, following one of the main roads in the direction of the Caribbean cost, we were several times stopped by locals protesting everything from lack of water to security. At one time, we were stopped by a large group of mainly men (some quite young) with stick in their hands forcing us to […]

Granja Cinduli, Sierra Nevada

May 17, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

While at the coast of Northern Colombia (north of Santa Marta) at Palomino staying at a out of season beach camping site (we were the only campers for several days), we decided that we wanted to visit Sierra Nevada. We considered doing the 5-day hike to Ciudad Perdida, but we frankly neither liked the price […]

Crisscrossing the Peruvian Andes

April 16, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

16.04.2025 we reached Huaraz. A little lost for a while on the steep street, we ended up, by chance, checking in at Santa Cruz Hotel relatively late at night (after dark). Next morning at breakfast, we discovered the dining room’s spectacular view to the Cordillera Blanca, one of Peru’s most famous mountain chains. As we […]

Crossing from east to west on Route 3N

April 15, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

Peru is a long and at times complicated country to cross by land. We spent the night “hiding” behind some big tractor-trailers in the corner of a gas station in Huánuco. With the purpose of avoiding a long deviation (implying returning to the south-west towards the coast) in direction of Lima, we contemplated following Route […]

Life is good… bumpy and full of surprises

April 13, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

Life is good and life is interesting but also exhausting when spending many hours behind the steering wheel on narrow dirt-roads of what sometimes feels more like a four-wheeled dual-sport (motorcycle) than a truck. It does absolutely everything and is literally unstoppable but of course we lack the comfort of a more modern vehicle. But […]

Getting ready… Again…

March 25, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

22 of March we returned to Montevideo airport at 06:00 a.m. – tired after more than 15 hours flight from Barcelona via Bogota to Montevideo. But to our great surprise, Florencia and Ricardo, our friends from Atlántida, were there to meet us, give us a warm welcome, including some breakfast and homemade cookies. And they […]

Camping Life – Hardware and Software

March 1, 2024 by oyvinkyvik

First the camping hardware: So far so good. Really. The biggest challenge for us has, on and off, been the strong Patagonian wind. The rooftop tent has stood its test – it sounds like it is going to fly away but so far it has stayed intact and in place (and we’ve in fact heard […]

Camping Ventisquero, Parque Pumalin – sector amarillo

February 18, 2024 by oyvinkyvik

We arrived at about 18:00 hours with rain. The park closes at 18:00 so we really arrived in the nick of time. When checking in, we were recommended camping in the uppermost camping area which is accessible only by 4×4 vehicles on a 15 km or so narrow, curvy, and very hilly forest-road. At the […]