It has been a year of starting anew. January started in lockdown. Still, we travelled for four months in Central America and Mexico. We had a serious case of fernweh coming back to the Netherlands. Reading books always helps. Travelogues,…
Cahuita is the jewel on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. A cute little village, beautiful wild beaches and one of the best national parks within crawling distance: what more could you want? The reason to come here is the Cahuita National…
Oeganda! In het hart van Afrika, tussen Oost en West, Noord en Zuid ligt een land dat alles heeft: droge savannes en regenwouden, bergen en uitgestrekte vlaktes, grootse rivieren en moerassen. Wij reizen drie weken met een 4WD zelfstandig door…
2021 was a great year for reading books. Locked away in our homes battling covid-19 by doing basically nothing, time shaped itself around the books I read. In this book blog I take you along in my year of reading…
One of the main reasons for us to visit Uganda was seeing African wildlife. Though the country’s numbers of wild animals declined severely in 1970s and 1980s, nature is winning again. With several top class wildparks and a wide range…
Of course you are going to the pyramids when you are in Egypt! We went there on our first day on our two-week trip in Egypt. And we loved it. If you only think about the Great Pyramid of Cheops…
Dave Eggers is not known as a travel writer – and basically he isn’t a travel writer. Still, I think his books show a true traveller’s mind. Open, inquisitive and curious about places, people and journeys different from his own….
Not a good year for travelling. As we enter a new year (2021) it is time to look back on the books we read in 2020. In this article you will find our 2020 list of travel books. We had…
According to us and actually read by us. No coffee table books full of pictures of top 100 best destinations or worst destinations or …. destinations included. Just some of our all-time favorite travel reads. Check out our Top Eleven…
We spend several self-drive safari days in Uganda’s Queen EIizabeth National Park. From our tented camp overlooking the Kazinga Channel we can easily reach the different parts of this stretched out national park. We come here to search for tree-climbing…