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Cajamarca had some interesting sites, one of them was the Ventanillas de Otuzco. The town center was nice with many colonial buildings...

Entering Peru from Ecuador at Alamor was an easy experience except the buying of the mandatory insurance policy we needed for the car. ...

The last leg south took us a few days to complete, and we stayed in several places. The route took us to Cuenca, Loja, Pindal, and on to...

Legend has it that the name Guayaquil came from two indigenous people, Guayas and his wife Quil, who were symbols of the resistance...

The next part of our Ecuador adventure took us from Quito to Esmeraldas, and from there along the coast south, driving the Ruta del Sol,...

The equator, of course! Quito is a huge city, and the point Lat 0° 0' 0" sits within the city boundaries, although from our hotel we had...

What a very special adventure to have an opportunity go to Galápagos! It is an unforgettable experience, and we have so many memories...

It was exciting to enter Ecuador, finally a new country to experience. The border crossing was slow but organised and it took a couple...

From Cali we only had one stretch left south, driving to Ipiales which is the last place on the Colombian side of the Rumichaca bridge. ...

The last of the big cities was Cali. We wanted to see it, even if there were many comments about the general safety of Colombia. ...

Carrying on south, our next stay was Bogotá. This capital city has a lot of stories around it, and quite recently yet another political...

The next place for us to visit was Medellín. We felt we knew it well from watching every single episode of Narcos, and the entry didn't...

The drive from Cartagena to Barranquilla was enjoyable, probably even more so as we had been static for a while. We thought we were...

Finally we got the car back, and we are ready to move on from Cartagena. The time to ship a car from Panama to Colombia varies between 2...

At last, late evening 6 June the ship turned up at Cartagena. We were told that we were to be without the car for a minimum of 14 days,...

We are still waiting for the car! First it was going to arrive 28 May, and then it changed to 5 June. We can only wait... Our next...

Cartagena is no doubt a very pretty place! The old part, what the locals call "dentro", is inside a very old city wall, going all around....

The stay in Panama City dragged on, we were there for a week after we left the car in Colon, and got to know the city a bit. While we...

The focus for this week has been preparations for the shipment of the car to Colombia. We are using a specialist agent to assist us, and...

Cars certainly have a mind of their own. The mechanic Ojochal ordered a filter to fit with the aircon system, and the filter was put on...

It was time to leave San Jose to set out on the longer leg through South America.  When going to the main border crossing with Panama, in...

After arriving in Costa Rica 4 April 2025, we needed to get the car through the Revision Tecnica, an annual event for older cars similar...

Places where we stayed at least one night on this trip. Costa Rica Los Chiles Nicaragua San Carlos Juigalpa Matagalpa Estelí Ocotal...

We left León to make our way to Granada, to see the very south west of Nicaragua. The driving experience we had when going north via the...