2010: An Earth Odyssey

Few days I'm back and nostalgia already kicks. Unfortunately, beautiful things are always bound to end and this journey around the world...

As I wrote on my previous posts, time to go back was come. Not because of the robbery suffered (I don’t give a shit to that ‘cause hopefully...

When I was hiking in Torres del Paine and the wind suddenly changed his way blowing my sunglasses and cap 100 meters off the cliff, I realiz...

Statistics say that most of the mountain accidents happen on the way back from the top - not while climbing up - when the attention and the ...

-Where are you from? -I'm from England. -Hey, look here, I'm much more English than you, I'm traveling with an umbrella! A brok...

Few people knows that my grandpa was living in Mar del Plata. Few knows it because I met him only once, for few days, just before he died. I...

I'm on the way back from Tierra del Fuego and I had a stopover in Puerto Madryn, a port town settled 145 years ago by Welsh emigrants. N...

Graham Greene wrote that "once your passport is stamped, life won't ever be the same", exactly what a Frenchman in Uyuni said ...

Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, "the end of the world" as the commercial slogan defines it - a pretty colorful town s...

This picture is dedicated to all those who sing out of the choir, who live out of the patterns, who think independently and against the tide...

A group of aged Italian tourists in the middle of a tragic organized tour of Patagonia meet Lonelytraveller: - ...and where are YOU trave...

Imagine one mountain - a beautiful mountain - settled in the middle of a beautiful area full of lagoons, glaciers and wildlife. Then imagine...

Take Italians, mix them with Spanish and a little bit of Germans and Swiss; pour some easy going American lifestyle and put everything in a ...

Cordoba depresses me. I arrived Sunday morning and the city was ghost town until noon. Many people suggested me to come here, because Cordob...

Well, the point is extremely easy: I had the first "bife de chorizo" in my life and I've fallen in love with it. Just when I w...

-Where did you travel before? -Well, let's say something like around the world... it's almost 7 months I'm on the road. -What? A...

As soon as I crossed the border to Argentina and I've seen all those Fiat cars running, one guy with the slogan "Napoli siamo noi...

Third desert I'm facing during this journey: after Gobi desert and Nevada desert, it's time for Atacama desert in Chile - the driest...

I spent one day in the cozy town of Tupiza and I had the feeling to be back in United States. The landscape is really similar to the America...

Today I've had one of the most memorable, valuable and interesting experience of all my journey. I'm in Potosi, in Southern Bolivia,...

When I was on the catamaran to Colombia, in the middle of the open sea, for a couple of times I've thought at the movie "Dead Calm...

It's a long time I'm dreaming about traveling in Bolivia. Now I get it and I'm quite disappointed. I'm in La Paz, whose full...

God, that`s too bad and it`s not a joke as I was thinking at a first glance. Jean Pierre Bouhard, the French captain of the boat I took from...

At a first glance Puno scared me, then it was fine, and at the end I loved to walk its suburb... Puno is settled on the Peruvian shores of t...

I'm back to Arequipa from a 2 days trip to Canyon del Colca, which is the deepest canyon in America (more than the Grand Canyon) and the...

So now you're expecting from me to write how beautiful, unbelievable and amazing Machu Picchu is... No! I won't write it! I was temp...

Lima, more than 8 millions of population, an high crime rate, and lots of poor people. It's not a nice city, I spent there one day and w...

It's the second day I'm in Huaraz, on the Peruvian Andes, and it's the second day of rain. Unfortunately this time of the year i...

Arriving in Trujillo,Peru, is definitely a step back from all the other countries visited recently. Entering the city early morning into see...

I'm spending more time than what planned here in Ecuador, but I like it. From Quito I moved to Puyo, a small city in the Eastern side of...

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, a city that lies at 2800 mt on the Andes and just few kilometres from the equator line. In a way, this city r...

After last days' overdose of beaches, sea and sun, I'm finally back to my beloved mountains: I'm in Otavalo, Ecuador, on the And...

Everybody told me how cool Medellin is, I spent half a day there and for me was enough. Maybe because as soon as I arrived the city greeted ...

After two hours by boat from Capurgana' to Turbo, one day on a bus to Monteria, one transfer to a different bus after crossing by walk a...