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Long distance traveling by land
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 […]
Narcotics-inspection in the port of Baru
June 12, 2025 by oyvinkyvik
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 […]
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 […]
Inside the “bubble”
May 22, 2025 by oyvinkyvik
After spending days in the Sierra Nevada wilderness, we were offered the opportunity to spend some days at a private resort close to Santa Marta. As we arrived, we ate some lunch in the heat of a restaurant just behind the resort, while still waiting for keys and green light for entering the parking with […]
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 […]
“Next”……..!
April 26, 2025 by oyvinkyvik
The process of “crossing borders” has changed a lot and it has generally become a much better organized and smoother procedure usually with the immigration/emigration and customs offices of the countries sharing a border being physically placed next or close to each other. However, sometimes technical and digital challenges have prolonged our border crossings – […]
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 […]
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June 14, 2025 by oyvinkyvik
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