sebbo on tour - around the world

While I was keen to enter and explore Bolivia, a 3-day-tour ending in Uyuni long booked, my body and mind weren‘t just ready for it. Some symptoms of altitude sickness accompanied by a cold had me postpone the tour three times to take rest and acclimatize in Chile’s San Pedro de Atacama (on 2,500m, but day trips can take you up to 4,700m or higher), the anticipation of three days in a jeep through areas on 3,500-5,000m created a number of worries and fears. Not feeling well physically, worrying and being by myself I had some symptoms of home sickness come up, too. As I didn’t want to succumb to the fear and at least try, eventually I made it; and I can say some of the worries have been quite justified. The altitude and speed we climbed up is no joke: from San Pedro we went to cross the border, then drive through sandy desert for 12h up to 4,000-5,000m to check out lagoons with flamingos, geysers and hot springs surrounded by snow capped volcanoes. We were with five people in our jeep a

All by myself… after an emotional good-bye in Ushuaia  with Diana I will be traveling by myself for a couple of weeks now before we will be reuniting again in early April. Another chapter in this trip is starting for me, more changes and getting used to different circumstances. Via Buenos Aires (where I spent a night at the EZE airport to catch my early morning connecting flight, can NOT recommend ) I arrived in Santiago de Chile - so back to Chile after we had already explored Patagonia. Now more of Chile Centro and Norte, by taking this flight I had skipped over some of the volcano and lake area in Chiles South/Centre; choices, choices, tough choices ;)  Honestly, after so much wildlife and nature neither did I feel like being in a big city again nor was I particularly interested in Santiago itself. But it wasn‘t the worst to have a few slow paced days to process the very active and fully packed January in Patagonia and Antartica as well as getting used to solo traveling. Surrounded