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London in 4 days. Who much can one see? Along with our friends Kristina & Manfred we went to find out. We had a wonderful time and got to see lots of treasures in London.

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“A country that, takes care of all people, gives work to everybody, where health care doesn’t cost you anything…” This is what I heard from pro-Fidel Cubans some years ago while traveling to Cuba. Would I hear this kind of comments in North Korea also I wondered? How would it compare to the GDR (Eastern Germany) that I witnessed over 20 years ago? How do people live in North Korea? What are your restrictions traveling through North Korea, etc…

As little information is available about North Korea, I try to summarize all information that I think could be of help for anybody traveling to North Korea or being interested about traveling there.

The information gathered here I did get personally from 6 different people, while I was traveling in North Korea. I won’t will quote persons individually because I don’t want anybody getting in trouble sharing something with me.

I will embed some pictures from my trip, to get even better ones I highly recommend you to visit this site:

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The Salar de Uyuni is an all time favorite for me. This tour must have been the fifth time I travelled here. And each time I get amazed again and discover new details. We made the tour in two days from Uyuni to San Pedro de Atacama. In viventura on our Peru-Bolivia-Chile Tours this is the standard length. The common tour is three days though, but you basically get to see the same things. By going two days you avoid the “Jeep Caravan”, about 30 jeeps start the tour every day… Another tipp: make sure to stay at one of the Salt Hotels around the Salar…

The tour starts in Uyuni at the train cemetery.

Then maybe the biggest highlight waits for you: the biggest “Salar” in the world, the Salar de Uyuni.

and the famous Isla Inkahuasi (also known as Isla del Pescado)

The tour goes on towards the end of the Altiplano. A huge plateau at around 3500 to 400o Meters von Cuzco, Peru to Uyuni, Bolivia. The two mountain ranges kept the ocean water while the Andes where rising millions of years ago. The Salt Water formed a huge lakes, the only remains today is the Titicaca Lake. Going from the Salar de Uyuni towards San Pedro de Atacama will give you the most picturesque scenes:

After the green and blue lake you leave Bolivia, from the border it’s a 50 minutes drive to San Pedro de Atacama. And each and every time I get on the chilenean road I believe to have arrived in another world.

For all my pictures visit the Bolivia 2009 galery. Also, over at Nils Blog you’ll find some more picture ideas for you Uyuni trip.

I just got to Peru after a marvelous week in Ecuador. Along with Sebastien, Carlos & Daniel, our new viventura team members we visited Tom’s office for y week. Yvonne, Tom & Co organized great weekend trips that took us to the Cloud Forest, the Cotopaxi Mountain and to the Thermal Baths.

The complete photos can be found in the Ecuador Photos Section.

I can’t even remember when I had my last night in a tent… Must have been somewhere in Patagonia some years ago. Adriana is a nature-lover, so this weekend we finally had our first camping expirience. We went to “Piedra Blanca” a well accessible “reserva natural”. It’s just about an hours drive from our apartment. And it’s just going up, and up, and up. It’s about 900 metres above Medellin and the climate and scenery is comparable to the one in Bogota.

Enough said, here are some pics from the weekend…