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Narcotics-inspection in the port of Baru
3 days after leaving the Land Cruiser at the terminal in Varu, we were contacted and picked up by our forwarding agent in Cartagena for the obligatory narcotics inspection. Inside the port-terminal, the owner of each vehicle was instructed to park in a designated area. The vehicles were lined up on the dock, waiting for […]
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 […]
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 […]
Progress in Cusco
April 9, 2025 by oyvinkyvik
We entered Cusco relatively late in the afternoon and as we approached the city center, we were initially chocked by the traffic congestions and chaos as we arrived from the rural Peruvian plateau. Anyway, after struggling for a while to find our way out of the afternoon rush-traffic (neither Google maps nor the GPS were […]
History as a learned interpretation of past events
April 2, 2025 by oyvinkyvik
We have visited several historical sites during our travels, and so also on this route. One of the first Inca settlements we visited where in Tilcara, Argentina. We jumped on a short, guided tour (guided by a young indigenous man) who told his story and took us through a brief and well-presented narrative of […]
Our final leg
March 29, 2024 by oyvinkyvik
On our final leg we crossed the border to Uruguay at Paysandú and decided to make a half circle route exploring rural Uruguay on our way to the Montevideo-region. We soon got respect for the extent of Uruguay´s agricultural industry, passing 100s of kilometers of fields of maize, soja, forests of eucalyptus, chicken farms, cattle, […]
Zigzagging rural Argentina – as we approach the Uruguayan border
March 15, 2024 by oyvinkyvik
The last weeks of our venture have been spent moving further to the north in Argentina, always keeping the route well to the west of the region of Buenos Aires and trying to avoid large urban areas. We are going slowly to really enjoy our travel experience and saying goodbye to Argentina. It is of […]
Route 68 – 4×4 adventure at high altitude
February 29, 2024 by oyvinkyvik
We became aware of this mountain route while staying at the campground at Barbarco (Argentina) – a small village close to the Chilean border. When asking around for open and passable roads (where we may pass with a 4×4 vehicle), a fellow camper mentioned this route as an alternative and shorter route when returning to […]
Puerto Tranquilo (“The Quiet Port”)
January 26, 2024 by oyvinkyvik
We stayed 2 days in Puerto Tranquilo – in a small camping, spending our time exploring, hiking and resting (we even took a hot bath and was served Pisco Sour by the young couple running the camping). We really needed a short break after heavy and slow going on the dusty and often corrugated roads. […]
From Puerto Yungai to Villa O’Higgins
January 20, 2024 by oyvinkyvik
Not accustomed to write about emotions, the following is based on impetus from my travel-partner (telling me to write more emotional blogs), and it covers this key stretch of narrow gravel road (about 90 km) to the official start of the Carretera Austral (Route 7). And starting the drive really included some emotions……. But I […]
elworldtrip 
June 12, 2025 by oyvinkyvik
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