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Blue lagoon
Bacalar's lake has seven distinct shades of blue, visible from a kayak on a perfect afternoon. This quiet Pueblo Mágico on the Caribbean coast is everything Tulum was before Instagram found it.
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An unusual path
Calakmul is the forgotten giant — a Maya city as large as Tikal, near the Guatemalan border, so remote that on the day we visited we had the pyramids almost entirely to ourselves.
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Detox, ruins and arts
A network outage forced a digital detox. Then a boat through a bat cave to Yaxchilán. Then Bonampak — whose 1,200-year-old battle murals are the most vivid ancient paintings either of us has ever seen.
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First Maya city
Palenque's temples emerge from the jungle itself — vines creeping over carved facades, howler monkeys calling from the canopy. Inside the Temple of Inscriptions, we descended to the tomb of King Pakal himself.
Oh Colombia! We miss you...
Two new videos, zero motivation to be anywhere that is not Colombia. After months of Caribbean coasts, cloud forests, and salsa nights, leaving felt like ending a love affair.
Strange traditions
San Juan Chamula's church looks Catholic from the outside and is something else entirely inside: pine needles, candles, Pepsi as a sacrament, and Maya ritual conducted in total seriousness beneath the saints.
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High in Mexico
San Cristóbal de las Casas sits at 2,200 metres, cool and cobblestoned, where the highlands look nothing like the coastal Mexico we had known. Magda got a hand-poked tattoo. We drank kakaw, the pre-Columbian original.
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Too hot to handle
Mazunte's heat is the kind that shuts your brain off. A sea turtle conservation centre, a bodyboard in the surf, and a perfect mezcal sunset at Punta Cometa with Carlos's leaving gift somehow made it bearable.
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Oaxacan tomb raider
Monte Albán was a Zapotec city that ruled the valley for 1,500 years. We spent the morning on its plazas — then found the hidden Tomb 7 tucked behind the car park, barely signposted.
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Five trips in one day
One day, five destinations: the world's widest tree, Zapotec ruins, petrified waterfalls, a weaving workshop, and a mezcal distillery. The Oaxaca valley delivers more per kilometre than almost anywhere we have been.
Mexican Carnaval
At the Tilcajete Carnaval, men in terrifying masks soaked in motor oil chase girls through the streets, the crowd drinks Michelada, and we danced with locals who barely spoke the same language. It did not matter.
Oaxaca with Carlos & Mezcal
Oaxaca is Mexico's culinary capital, and staying with Carlos's family changed everything. Seven types of mole, mezcal from a family distillery, and a send-off we did not deserve.
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Work beach balance
A Workaway arrangement at Chanclas Hostel gave us free accommodation in exchange for Christian producing a full 360° promotional video. Not a bad trade for a week on the Pacific coast.
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A shot of Tequila
The town of Tequila sits surrounded by blue agave fields and smells faintly of fermentation. A tour of Casa Sauza explained everything we had been drinking for years — and left us with far more respect for it.
Sunny West side story
After months of rainy highlands and jungle, Guadalajara arrived like a reward: sunshine, Orozco's blazing murals at Hospicio Cabañas, worm-salt mezcal, and a safari zoo with giraffes at eye level.
Videos Update
COVID's unexpected gift was editing time. We used it to release two Colombia videos: Tayrona National Park's secret beaches and the San Gil action sports that left us breathless.
Colonial and rainy
Morelia's baroque cathedral dominates a city that moves at a different pace from Mexico City's chaos — grand, colonial, and thoroughly rained on for most of our stay.
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European style in Mexico
Guanajuato was built on silver and looks like it escaped from a painting of southern Europe — narrow alleys, colourful facades, underground tunnel roads, and streets that flood dramatically when it rains.
Corona and travelling
It was March 2020, we were in southern Mexico, and the news was getting harder to ignore. Here is what it felt like to be on the road as the world we had left behind began to shut down.
Wrestle down tradition
Lucha Libre is somewhere between sport, theatre, and national mythology. Spending an evening at Arena México watching masked fighters perform for a crowd of ecstatic families is pure, undiluted joy.
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Teotihu...what?
Teotihuacán was once the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Climbing the Pyramid of the Sun — 65 metres of steep stone steps in the midday heat — puts that scale into sharp physical perspective.
Fiesta Mexicana
Mexico City opened with tacos, Aztec artefacts, and H.R. Giger — an art exhibition in a chapel opposite the Anthropology Museum. We were instantly in love with a city that refuses to be just one thing.
One last dance...
Three last days in Bogotá before the flight to Mexico: too much sushi, an emotional reunion with friends from Cartagena, and a city we had underestimated saying farewell in the only way it knows how.
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Adventure capital
Tejo involves throwing a metal puck at gunpowder — a sport that explodes. Then came ziplines, a giant swing over a canyon, and 20 metres of rappelling. San Gil earns its reputation the hard way.
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Fridge of Colombia
They call Bogotá the fridge of Colombia for its cold, overcast weather. After months in tropical heat we did not mind — and the Museo del Oro, the world's largest pre-Columbian gold collection, was worth the chill.
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Dry tropical rainforest
The Tatacoa Desert is half red, half grey — two ecosystems that should not coexist. At night, with no light pollution for miles, the sky fills with more stars than seems physically possible.
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Salsa capital
Cali's Feria is the world's biggest salsa festival, and for ten nights we were in the middle of it. San Cipriano — reachable only by motorised rail cart — was a warm-up act for the city's relentless rhythm.
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Valley of plenty
Salento is the postcard version of Colombia's coffee region: flower-draped balconies, outstanding coffee, and just outside town, Valle de Cocora with the world's tallest wax palms reaching into the mist.
Colombia's most colourful town
Guatapé's houses are covered in colourful frescoed panels depicting everything from the sea to football. Above it all, a 740-step climb up El Peñol delivers the best view in Colombia.
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Most dangerous city?
Medellín was once the most dangerous city on Earth. Today, a guided walk through the transformation of Comuna 13 tells the whole story — and a Rammstein cover band closes the night perfectly.
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Time to go deep
Ten days at the best hostel of the entire trip, then PADI certification in the Caribbean Sea. Christian's ear gave him trouble; Magda found her element. A seahorse and a moray eel made it worthwhile.
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Into the jungle...Again?
Tayrona National Park is what happens when the jungle meets the Caribbean: a two-hour hike through dense forest leads to beaches so perfect they almost feel unreasonable.
Up the coast into nowhere
Palomino promised a hammock, a river, and nothing to do. A storm erased the beach overnight, the river was perfect for swimming, and our salsa attempts were enthusiastic if nothing else.
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Caribbean History
Cartagena's 11km of defensive walls were built to keep pirates out — and they worked. Walking the full circuit reveals a city that fought for survival for three centuries and turned it into beauty.
Pirates of the Caribbean
We arrived in Cartagena at 5am with no plan and walked straight into a walled city that looks built for a film set — and immediately made friends who would shape the rest of our time in Colombia.
Change of Plans
Bolivia was the plan. Then political protests closed the borders. Within 24 hours, every traveller we met said the same thing: go to Colombia. Sometimes the best trips are the unplanned ones.
Feliz Navidad
Our first Christmas far from family, far from snow, and far from everything familiar. Somewhere in South America, a new kind of holiday tradition was quietly beginning to take shape.
Travel Videos
We launched a dedicated video page — two new films of the Peruvian south, shot on an Insta360 OneX, capturing Arequipa's volcanic architecture and Paracas's wild Pacific coastline.
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Last but not least...Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu costs more than a week's budget, arrives in morning fog, and still takes your breath away. Worth every sol — especially the hour before the crowds, when we had it almost to ourselves.
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Sacred Valley of Peru
The Sacred Valley is where the Incas built their most impressive engineering: Pisac's hilltop citadel above a massive Inca cemetery, and Ollantaytambo's fortress with perfectly fitted sun-temple stones.
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Mountain of colors...and snow
The Rainbow Mountain at 5,000 metres was supposed to be a sunrise hike. Then a sudden hailstorm turned the coloured peaks white, and the drive back down a muddy mountain road became its own adventure.
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The last city of Peru
Cusco sits at 3,400 metres where Incan stone walls form the foundations of Spanish colonial churches, and the tension between those two histories is quietly visible on every street corner.
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Trek into Hell
The Colca Canyon is twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. We decided to hike into it and back out in two days. The 4:30am climb out with no breakfast remains the hardest thing either of us has ever done.
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The white city
Arequipa is carved from white volcanic stone that glows pink at sunset. Behind its most famous convent lies an entire hidden city within a city — one that nuns have not left in 400 years.
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Wine and desert
Christian nearly left his hat at the pisco distillery. We sandboarded down sunset dunes at Huacachina. Peru's south coast is not just about ruins — it is about joy, speed, and very cold Pisco Sour.
Jungle fever
Sitting in tourist-heavy Cusco, we published our Amazon video and felt the distance from that remote river world more acutely than ever. Some places leave a mark that does not wash off.
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Gateway to the South
Paracas is where the Atacama Desert meets the Pacific in the most dramatic way — dune buggies tearing across ancient sand, and the Ballestas Islands swarming with penguins and sea lions.
Animals of the North
A manatee rescue centre staffed by volunteers, and a monkey island where rehabilitated primates use you as a climbing frame: Iquitos offers wildlife encounters on the Amazon's own terms.
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The end of the road...
Iquitos is the largest city on Earth with no road access — you arrive by plane or boat, full stop. Its floating market sells live turtles, exotic fruit, and ayahuasca ingredients in the same aisle.
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In the jungle - Day 4
Saying goodbye to the jungle felt surprisingly hard. The caiman we had visited each morning seemed to watch us paddle away. Getting back to civilisation took a different kind of endurance.
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In the jungle - Day 3
We learned which roots are medicinal, which leaves sting, and how to catch a piranha — which turned out to be much easier than expected, and delicious for lunch.
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In the jungle - Day 2
Dawn brought giant river otters at play, and darkness brought a caiman hunt — our guide reached into black water and pulled one out by hand, calm as anything.
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In the jungle - Day 1
Day one in Pacaya Samiria: pink river dolphins surfaced beside our canoe, a caiman watched from the bank, and we slept under a jungle shelter with the sounds of the Amazon surrounding us.
Away from civilization
Four days, one canoe, and no mobile signal: we were paddling into Pacaya Samiria, one of South America's largest protected reserves. This is what remote really feels like.
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Deep into the Amazon
The road ends at Yurimaguas — the last city reachable by bus before the Amazon takes over. Everything beyond moves by boat, and civilisation starts to feel like a suggestion.
Gocta - the rain is wet
For centuries, locals kept Gocta Waterfall secret, fearing a golden mermaid legend. The hike through cloud forest reveals one of the world's tallest falls — and why some secrets are worth keeping.
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Kuelap - traces of the past
Perched at 3,000 metres above a sea of clouds, Kuelap is the fortress city of the Cloud Warriors — older than Machu Picchu, wilder, and still half-consumed by jungle.
Remembering the North
Our time along the north coast of Peru comes together in our latest YouTube video — ruins, desert sunsets, and two wide-eyed travellers trying to take it all in.
On the road to Amazon
A 14-hour overnight bus climbed from the Pacific coast through cloud forest to Chachapoyas — a small Andean city few tourists reach, and the starting point for something extraordinary.
The city of Chan Chan
Chan Chan was once the largest city in the Americas — an adobe maze of royal compounds and fish-carved walls slowly dissolving back into the desert it was built from.
Tour to the Sun and the Moon
A thousand years before the Incas, the Moche built temple-pyramids in the desert and covered them in warrior gods painted red, yellow, and black — still vivid after 1,500 years.
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Heading North to Trujillo
Trujillo's colonial Plaza de Armas turns golden at dusk — a picture-perfect gateway to some of the most important pre-Columbian ruins in all of South America.
Leaving Lima behind...
After three weeks in Lima, our first YouTube video dropped — a city that frustrated and fascinated us in equal measure, now compressed into a few cinematic minutes.
Finally...we made it!
Three extra days in Lima, courtesy of severe food poisoning, were not in the plan. When Christian finally recovered, catching the night bus north to Trujillo felt like a hard-won victory.
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Lima first city experiences
From catacombs piled high with 25,000 bones to a museum of Incan erotic pottery, Lima's historic centre revealed just how deep Peru's layered history goes.
Lima's bohemian district - Barranco
Barranco is Lima's answer to Montmartre — peeling colonial mansions, the Bridge of Sighs, murals around every corner, and peñas where Peruvian folk music fills the night air.
Peruvian food and Pisco
Peru doesn't just have cuisine — it has a national religion. Our first proper day out in Lima was a pilgrimage through Pisco Sour, ceviche, and the revelation that lomo saltado might be the perfect dish.
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Welcome to Lima!
Lima surprised us from the first hour: a sprawling Pacific city of 10 million with a neighbourhood called Miraflores that looked and felt nothing like we expected South America to be.
First check-in
Passport? Check. Backpack? Check. Proof of onward travel? Almost forgot that one. Our first lesson in long-term travel logistics happened before we even left the airport.
Here we go!
After months of planning, the day finally came. Munich to Lima with a layover in Bogotá — the first of many airports, the first of many new worlds waiting on the other side.
How long and when?
One month or ten? The answer isn't just about money — it's about seasons, monsoons, and chasing the best version of every destination. Here's how we built a 10-month travel calendar.
What about work?
Quitting your job to travel the world sounds romantic until you have to actually do it. Christian quit; Magda negotiated unpaid leave. Either way, the clock was ticking.
Where do we want to go?
Peru, Mexico, Thailand, New Zealand — the world was wide open, but narrowing it down to an actual route took months of dreaming, debating, and drawing lines on maps.
How we (slowly) started...
Every great journey starts with a quiet moment of 'what if.' Here's how two people from Munich decided to trade stability for adventure — and why it wasn't nearly as scary as it sounds.
Hello world!
Our first website is live — a small step before a big adventure begins. Follow along as Magda & Christian plan their way around the world, one 360° post at a time.
360° Musicvideo
A metal band in Munich, a 360° camera, and a crazy idea that became an exhausting, unforgettable shoot — and the best possible training ground for immersive travel filmmaking.
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First project ideas
Before the passport stamps, there was an idea: use 360° VR cameras not just for travel, but as a creative medium. A music video for a German metal band would become the unexpected test run.