Music An Excursion to Argentinian Punk and Rock When travelling in South America you get to a point where you simply get too much of Romeo Santos and his Merengue compañeros, and to be honest my pain threshold
Statistics A Boy On The Road - The Story So Far (Update) It's the 3rd of August 2015 and I'm still on the road, time for me to look back and [update]((http://aboyontheroad.com/2015/04/21/a-boy-on-the-road-the-story-so-far/) my travel statistics.
Travel Bogotá - The Final Leg of the South America Trip My trip through South America comes to an end. The final leg couldn't be more fitting then the wonderful city of Bogotá. It's the second-highest (~ 2,600 m) capitol city
Travel Cartagena, Santa Marta and Taganga - The Caribbean Coast of Colombia My travels through Colombia continue: From Cali I took the shortcut by plane to Cartagena, from where I explored the caribbean coast of this beautiful country. The city of Cartagena
Food Beers Of Ecuador The South America beer test continues. So far there were no big surprises, sadly, the only exceptions being some fine craft beers, read up on that here: Uruguay, Argentina, Chile,
Travel Ipiales, Popayán and Cali - The South of Colombia From Quito I went to explore Colombia. I entered the country at the border crossing of Tulcán (Ecuador) and Ipiales (Colombia) and continued by bus to Popayán and then further
Travel Quito - A Weekend in the Capital of Ecuador Quito is the proud capital of Ecuador. It lies at about 2,800 meters above sea level and is home to around two and a half million people. Due to
Travel Galápagos - A Tale of Endemic Creatures and Seasickness It's difficult to put the beauty of the Galápagos Islands into words. I'm no writer, and even if I would be, I would have my doubts if I could do
Food Beers Of Peru South America is not known for its rich brewing tradition, I knew that when I got on the plane to Montevideo. I was certain that if I want to taste
Travel Guayaquil - Heat and Humidity My next stop was Guayaquil in Ecuador. Finally! I was somehow looking forward to Ecuador for a long time, but that is part of a future blog entry. Guayaquil is
Travel Trujillo, Huanchaco, Chiclayo, Piura and Máncora - Conquering the North of Peru From Lima I made my way up North towards Ecuador. Slowly, embracing the warmth at the Pacific Ocean and in the desert after too much cold weather in the moutains.
Food Beers Of Bolivia It's becoming a thing! This is the fourth beer evaluation. After taking a look at the beers of Uruguay, Argentina and Chile, read up if you missed them, I take
Travel Lima - Modern Birdcage On April 21st of 2015 I made it all the way from the South of Peru to Lima. So far I stopped in each capitol of every country I visited,
Travel Nazca and Huacachina - Of Figures and Oases Fancy another stop on the Gringo trail? Nazca and Huacachina are approximately fourteen hours by overnight bus north from Cusco and about four hours south of the capitol, Lima. Both
Travel Cusco and Machu Picchu - Following in the Footsteps of the Inca The first "proper" (Puno doesn't count) stop on my travels through Peru was the city of Cusco, the starting point for every tour to Machu Picchu, I opted
Food Beers Of Chile Here comes the third beer evaluation of my trip, this time I'm going to have a look at the beers of Chile. If you were lazy before and missed the
Statistics A Boy On The Road - The Story So Far On the 8th of April 2015 I crossed the border from Bolivia to Peru. Time for the boy on the road to stop for a moment and take a look
Travel Bolivia - A Round Trip If you followed my trip so far on this blog you read how I entered Bolivia via Oruro, then took the train to Tupiza and from there did an amazing
Travel Bolivian Altiplano Tour Welcome to the Bolivian Altiplano! This means on the one side: an average elevation of 4.000 meters, cold temperatures in the night (because of the high altitude), no heating,
Food Beers Of Argentina The inevitable beer evaluation continues, this time I take a look at the beers of Argentina. If you missed out on the beers of Uruguay, click here to catch up.
Travel San Pedro de Atacama to Tupiza - The Hard Way What is the easiest way to get from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile to Tupiza in Bolivia? Actually a quite short two and a half hour ride with a
Travel Adventures in the Atacama Desert My "101 Chile" continues in the Atacama Desert. To be honest, I moved quite fast through this amazing country, mainly because to cut costs. In general the living/
Travel La Serena and Vicuña Here is my quick and dirty travel guide to La Serena and Vicuña! La Serena Why go? - La Serena is a beach town in the Coquimbo Region. It has
Travel Valparaíso - Colorful City Valparaíso is a city you either love or hate. It is steep, and thus has a lot of run down escalators, stairs and buildings stacking on top of each other
Travel Impressions from Santiago de Chile "Welcome to Chile and welcome to Santiago" Patricio said when I met him at my hostel, where he stopped by to pick me up. And I did feel