Brazilian christmas! wonderful! amanda's familly is quite big so there has been lots of people the 24th and 25th. very nice decoration, tasty food, and nice atmosphere... the 25th two singers came at home and we spent the day near the swimming pool singing and dancing. the rest of the week was more quiet, with many meals and dinners and afternoon s

Samaipata samaipata is a small village lost in the mountain with a wonderful climate and beautiful surroundings. many germans and dutchs are established here. we made a 2 days trip to go where ernesto “che” guevara spent his last days before being captured by the bolivian army (helped by the american cia) and executed the 9th october 1967 in th

“pantanal is a tropical wetland. 80% of the pantanal floodplains are submerged during the rainy seasons, nuturing an astonishingbiologically diverse collection of aquatic plants and helping support a dense array of animal species.” and yes, the wildlife in pantanal is really worth it, especially if you like caymans (around 5000 of them in the r

Lapaz lapaz is the administrative capital of bolivia, it is the world' highest city (from 3,000 to 4,100m). i stayed there for one week and enjoyed diverse activities such as: the famous “gravity biking” to drive down the famous “road of death”, christened as such by the inter-american development bank. it is a 61km mountain road leading fr

Baños: great time overthere, nice climate (not too cold, not too hot, and.. no mosquitoes!). here one of the highest place of vacation for the ecuadorians and tourists of other countries. i could enjoy some nice motocycle and rafting rides, saw for the first time of my life a volcanic eruption (with the lava exploding out, amazing), and of course

I stayed 1 day in el calafate to see the gorgeous glaciar perito moreno (see pics), large of 5 km, long of 30km and high up to 60m! and good news, it is one of the unique glaciars in the world that does not regress.. i left el calafate to head to ushuaia at 3am (ouch!) and enjoyed a nice 18 hours bus trip made principally of border crossing with ch

An ecuadorian friend (luis) and i left from quito by bus around 2am in the morning. we arrived around 7am at the columbian border, and after some administrative complications (quickly solved with a discrete 20 us dollars bill), we went for cali. we left early in the morning to drive by day on this unfortunately famous border crossing road, famous f

I left 2 weeks ago buenos aires to go to the waterfalls of iguazu: these are purely amazing! it is hard to describe with words but have a look on my pictures, it can give you an idea of the beauty of this place. i left puerto iguazu to join a brazilian friend (amanda)and her italian friend in rio de janeiro. rio is as well incredibly gorgeous, with

Hello everybody! actually still working in the ngo (1 month already!, time goes quick). i pretty enjoy it so far and i´ve started working parrallely on a new project, about cacao this time. i've added some new pics of the region of manabi in the album ecuador... related album to the article: http://latinamericaltobelli.over-blog.com/album-1589842.

Well i can hardly believe it has been 2 months i didn`t update this blog! herei come with new pics in the folder “ecuador”. among my main experiences these last weeks: - project cacao: i put a few pics about it. i`ve worked quasi 2 months on it and therefore donnot have many other new experiences to relate. - ayahuasca: we went 1 week in amazon