After a very warm welcome we are back where it all started: Amsterdam. It is great to be home again but for now, lets look back one more time to all the places where we have been.

It seems obvious that a world trip requires frequent packing. But how frequent is frequent? Well, take a look to get an idea...

We arriva at Budapest airport. Really strange. Just now we begin to understand that we have finished our trip already. And even though we were getting homesick lately we ofcourse do not like the idea of having to stop early.

Once back in Bangkok we are busy organising. We have to get a ticket from Mongolia to Hungary and from Hungary back home and – very important – we still have to plan our entire trip to China. We count the days, because in less than a week we will meet Zsuzsa’s father who will travel with us through

We fly back to Kuala Lumpur and sleep in a hotel close to the airport. The very next morning at 6:00 we continue to Cambodia. We set our alarm and arrange a transfer but we find our preparations in vain when we miss our shuttle. How is that possible? Days later we find out that the battery in our clock is dead. Lucky for us, we find another transfer to the airport and manage to get on our flight in time.

Arriving in Kuala Lumpur we find ourselves in a different world immediately. It is a big city, an obvious observation after the small island of Koh Samui. But, it is also clean and well organised. Immediately we acquire a taste and are looking forward to seeing the rest of Malaysia.

After our visit to Hong Kong we fly to Bangkok, in Thailand. A typical backpacker destination, but ofcourse also beautiful beaches, a lot of rice and many, many temples. Ofcourse, we had already written about our tiger story so we won’t repeat that.

The world is such a beautiful place. So much has become clear from all the places we have visited in the last few months. Unfortunately, there are also less beautiful things. In Thailand we were confronted with the abuse of elephants, crocodiles and tigers. We managed to get some videos of the mistreated tigers and compiled it into a video. Watch it, share it and – more importantly – take this into account if you ever go to Thailand yourself.

We fly over the pacific from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. We leave on Wednesday night from LA and pass the international date line. By the time we touch down it is already Friday. Never before on our trip we felt such world travellers. And here, in Hong Kong, we are set to meet many other familiar faces.

Yes with all these great photos and videos you would almost believe that our trip consists of fun things only. Well, that is true, but only for the most part and today we are tasked with our least favorite chores of all: budgeting.

After our motorhome and our rental car we finally reach the end of the United States. Our last stop is Las Vegas. Here we drop our car and for the first time in 7 months we see real live people from back home!

...Yosemity and Grand Sequioa. The list is endless. Although we returned our motorhome some time back in Los Angeles our trip through the USA is not yet over. We rent a car and buy a tent to go camping old-school.

...Meteor Crater, Grand Canyon en Joshua Tree. What a list. After Yellowstone we continue our trip to our final destination Los Angeles, straight through some of the most beautiful parks the USA has to offer. By the time we deliver our motorhome we have travelled almost 4.000 miles (6.000 kilometers).

Time has come! After Chicago we pick up our motorhome and take off for a tour through the USA. No bus schedules, no packing and unpacking of bags but our own home on wheels. First stops: the Badlands, Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone!

We leave Mexico and the Beach of Playa del Carmen for something very different. After a bus, airplane, another airplane and two subways we are in Sweet home Chicago. We are here for a week only, prior to picking up our motorhome on the 19th of June.

Ofcourse, we had already been to Cancun on our way to Cuba, but now it was time to actually visit Mexico in it’s own respect. In 10 days we went through Mexico and Guatemala to find the old Maya cities. At the end of it, we were ready for a beach again. And WHAT a beach it was!

Hello my friend. Happy holiday! Do you want a taxi? Cuban cigar? American car? In the center of Havana we are greeted friendly every time. Ofcourse we enjoyed salsa and mohito’s but also Swan Lake by Tshaikovsky and the great Havana beach. An then, then there was a train from 1969 and a red Buick convertible from 1959.

We enjoyed it so much. When we went to Curaçao we really needed a break from all the travelling but now that we are leaving we again are really looking forward to it. But first, the photos!

By surprise we used Skype today to visit Salsa4Fun, our dancing school in Amsterdam. From Curaçao Joost calls the Rueda calls that are danced in Amsterdam.

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We made it. We have two new drivers licenses, two new international drivers licenses, a new credit card, new bankcard and a new iPhone. It took us three months and a lot of postal services to get the job done but we made it.

We leave Bolivia behind us and travel by bus to Peru: the land of the Inca. Here Machu Picchu awaits us! They say you have to get used to the altitude before going to Machu Picchu but we have been on the Bolivian highlands for weeks and already adjusted. Peru. Here we come!

Underneath my feet my boots sink away in 30 centimeters of mud. It’s hard enough to walk with so much muddy ground, but the weight of my backpack pushes me down even further and makes me loose my balance. Joost is even worse off, because he doesn’t heven have boots and his walking shoes are all covered in mud.

A 6 hour bus trip takes us from Arica in Northern Chile to La Nuestro Señora de La Paz in Bolivia. It also means that we travel from sealevel to 3600 meters high in just a couple of hours. The hightsickness hits us immediately. Before we arrive we have a headache and we feel miserable. We’re lucky though. Several people on the bus make good use of the distributed puke bags.

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Our last destination in Patagonia was Puerto Natales, in southern Chile. For us this was only a transit destination because from here we could take a cheap flight to the north. Also, we had no idea what to expect here and then we ran into Alejandro.

Is was time for a relaxing day. That means: ice-trek. We would still climb and carry loads but in comparison with Fitz Roy is was as easy as can be. So, a sort of relaxation but then with an incredible view.

The long trip along route 40 eventually brought us to el Chaltén. This village was built in 1985 by Argentina to claim the land before Chile would, but most people have long forgotten that. El Chaltén is also synonymous with the second reason for it’s existence: Fitz Roy, and that was the real reason we went here.

After a 20 hour busride back to Buenos Aires and a 2 hour flight later that day we have reached Bariloche at the base of the Andes mountainrange. Here we will start our trip through Patagonia.

Oh boy, what a trip. The bus was fine and the chairs were great but nothing changes the fact that we’re in a metal cabin for 20 hours. We arrived and entered the pool in minutes. Yes, the Hostel Inn in Iguazú really is a vacation resort and so it felt when we arrived.

They say the busses in Argentina are the best and it was time to put that to the test. Our destination is the waterfalls of Iguazú in the north of Argentina. By bus it should be about 17 hours.

Our last day in Buenos Aires. The first two weeks passed quickly. Ofcourse it’s impossible to tell you guys everything we experience, but the following few at least were very memorable.

The asphalt deforms under the pressure of our feet and the tiles of the pavement are so hot that the rising heath makes you feel like you are walking through a bath of hot air. The sun strikes merciless down on the human mass that flows through the streets like a liquid. They don’t seem to mind. They are used to it. We are not.

The preparation was endless. Renting out our house, getting a new passport, renting out another house, getting our vaccines, extra bank cards, buying shoes, getting an international driving license, travel insurance, terminating our insurance in Holland, buying a backpack, actually packing, finishing the website (still to do!)...