While in our overland trip through South America we were asked by our good friend Manolis Kyriakopoulos to be interviewed for LiveTrips.gr. We came across Livetrips by accident and while we had already started the present exhibition in our attempt to…
This time our route through Ecuador had it all: jungle, Andean peaks, city life, Pacific Coast and finally the Galapagos. As mentioned in our previous post, we left uninspiring Coca behind to find the Ecuadorian jungle. After a day’s long…
“How much money is enough to start an overland trip?” It is a question that we get asked very often and one of the most difficult to answer. Your budget is something personal and subject to the kind of…
“To do it Alone or Together?” Through our web site you probably have seen that I started my overlanding adventure before I met Rochelle and I was lucky that my partner in life was also a keen overlander. (wich is…
“Sponsoring yourself or being sponsored?” As you most probably already know, here in OVERLANDDIARIES we rely exclusively on our own funds as an income to fuel our overland expeditions. No matter how much money we have available, this will be…
“How to stay safe on the road?” Lets talk about safety now and the fine print of it. Wikipedia defines the term Overlanding as: "A self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. Typically, it…
Hello fellow overlanders!!!!!! We decided to add this section on our tips & info called Moments & Momentum in order to add special short stories of our trips that add knowledge to overlanding experience. How do we find the places…
Leaving Pamplona and the hospitality of Philip behind, we had aimed to cover some distance and head south as fast as possible. However traveling through the windy cliff-hugging road in Cañón de Chicomocha, between San Gill and Bucaramanga, was one…
For those of you that have been following our trip from the beginning, you know that somewhere in this sun-soaked, dramatic part of Colombia’s Caribbean coast is the most northern point of this trip. Starting from the dense jungles of…
Where were we in last month’s post? Oh, yeah, Guatapé. Well, having a great host and a beautiful homey place to stay didn’t exactly help us make the decision to leave. So we extended our stay for an extra week.…
As we mentioned in our previous post, leaving San Agustín behind, we had planned to take over the adventurous route to Caño Cristales, a river located in la Macarena in the province of Meta. Until the mid-2010s, this area was…
Although we could see the Volcán Cotopaxi from the Quilotoa lake, its bulk and symmetrical cone took on an entirely new dimensions when we followed local advice and picked to experience it within the bounds of its own national park.…
Introduction The list bellow was designed for unsupported global travel in developing countries.Developed countries have most of the resources available, so some of the items on this list are not required. The specific pack list is based on full time…
Truth to be told, we were enjoying Lima a lot, but after eleven days, the time had come to move on. We had heard about a place further north on the coast named Tortugas that meant to look like…
When we crossed the border from Bolivia back into Chile, we had mixed feelings. Relief, as we were away from the bad roads, the dust and the cold. Happiness, as we were heading to the sun on the coast that…
...|.. STUPID PASSES ..|... <<NEWS FLASH>>CURRENT SCORE 9 EACH !! <<NEWS FLASH >> Invented in Mykonos in July 2014 the month before I jumped from living and managing 5 star resorts around the world for over 13 years to…
Crossing the Argentina-Bolivia border north of Humahuaca, as I read the night before on the internet, was meant to be a painful long process. So the next day we arrived prepared. In reality though, everything went rather smoothly and after…
Although this topic has been mentioned many times and probably read even more on the internet, based on our own personal experience and after reading a similar article by tuckstruck.net we decided to put together this tip post about foreign…
Marked as a highlight of all of South America and although super touristic, a must see of Brazil’s South is Parque Nacional do Iguaçu. This area is where Brazil and Argentina meet and where Río Iguaçu after its route of…
We were sad to say so long to Buenos Aires but the journey goes on. So after embarking the ferry, we headed 50km to the east bank of Río de la Plata and back in Colonial’s Unesco World Heritage Barrio…
