Peru · Colombia · Mexico
360° travel documentation by Magda & Christian from Munich
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Magda & Christian — Munich
10 months, 3 countries, thousands of kilometers. We packed our cameras and a VR headset and explored Peru, Colombia, and Mexico — documenting everything in 360°.