Spend 15 hours on a nigthbut from LA Paz to Sucre. Was expecting the roads to be crap but it wasnt that bad. Just Freezing on the bus. Ahhhh ! Heard a lot about Sucre, a lovely colonial city but i would say the ones in Colombia is a lot better. Anyway, i can at leats say ive been there.. ! Me and Mirco went to see the Dinosaur trecks just outside Sucre. DISSAPOINTING. Probably the worst thing I ever seen. Was more like a kindergarden than a obswervation center. Made us both laugh so much thoue. Potosi is sweet, got here from Sucre, really like this small place. Like everything in Bolivia is not very NICE as i would say it. But its different and so far all the locals are friendly ! Did the mie tour today with the " The Real Deal" company. They are all X-miners and it was fantastic ! We went in the mines, walk all the way trught the montain, was around 3 km. Honestly i would say it was a bit scary, clostrufobic. At some parts we had to crawl down on our knees. Its all dust, strange smells and really hot or really cold. But it was awesome. Does miners are doing such a hard work in there and they earn maximum 300 Euros a month. Oh my Buddah. It was a intresting tour all the way trou and I enjoyed it. Tomorrow im going for a one day trek up the montains to see the lakes. Hope im not gonna freez my ass off. - Ey Mr Taliban.

Today is a special day. The third of July, the day when my best friend was born twenty four years ago.  I want to wish her all the best ( not just for today..' ) and congratulations. Sooo want to be with you Lollo, celebrating but I'm sure you have a wicked day..  All the craziness we done, that I have to do by my own now. You are missing on my side. Want you here to have a big laugh With you. Laugh until we cry as always..  And Playing retards, the thing we're been really good at. Now I'm a TARD on my own.. But, it's all recorded and will stay with me forever. My best friend, as you will always be. Bikkjen, min allra bästa vän. Lots of love. - we're never apart, it's just air between. Once best friends, always best friends.

My way to Bolivia went throu as you probably know. Lucky me that the border opened so it went smoothly even if took me thirteen hours.  First thing I saw crossing the border in to Bolivia was a big Volvo truck with the text " hurtigrutten and M/S Lofotoen ", Norway is everywhere.. ! Got the late afternoon boat to Isla del sol, the biggest island outside copacabana in lake Titicaca. The worlds highest lake. The two and a half hours boat ride was boring.tired and hungry but worth the trip. The island is beautiful.  Met three guys staying at the same hostel so we all went up to the view point where we met another two. Had a stroll for some hours around the island and shared some pizza and red wine later on. Great night.  Very quiet at the island, nothing to do.  Next they I had a big walk to the north side of the island. Amazing, really liked it ! Met Mirco from the they before and we went to Copacabana for one night.  Took a local bus to La Paz, not the best we done. Me and Mirco and ALL locals. Roads in Bolivia is just the worth.. Fuck ! Had to make a stop when. Small mini bus crashed so we all had to go out and flip it back. Hilarious.  Lucky Mirco is fluent Spanish speaking so it went easier then it would have been. Anyway, got in to La Paz hanging out. Strolling. Bolivia is the poorest country in south America for sure, really dodgy but I feel safe which is a good sign. ( not every day over here... ) Saw the main things in the center, markets, churchs and so on.. Saw the world photo exhibition 2011. Amazing, it made me realize how amazing I actually have it. I'm living the dream, good health, seeing the world. My family and friends are all good. Couldn't have it better.  The exhibition is showing pictures from last year, tragedies in the world. Depressing but very very interesting. ( check the website www.worldpressphoto.org ) Went to the cinema seeing hangover two. Sometimes you just miss the normal things you're up to back home.. And I did like it.  Today we went mountain biking on THE WORLS MOST DANGEROUS ROAD. It was wicked. Thought it was gonna be harder. Wasn't that bad, really rocky and STEEP on the side. The road itself is on the side of a mountain without any barriers .. Cool ! Went with B-Side, good company with small groups. Only four of us. I keep up with our guide so he ask if I wanted to do some more downhill but don't have time for it. The day was great and I loved it ! I'm still alive ! Wooooop. Probably going for a few drinks tonight, checking out the nightlife of La Paz. It's supposted to be one of the top tens in the world. - Blessing. 

I'm sooooo happy. I was planning to do a illegal border crossing to Bolivia because of the streak. It's been a mess over here. Protest and demonstrations, six peoples were killed the other day. BUT today they solved the problem so the border is safe and I can cross in to Bolivia ! Celebrations today. Woohooooo ! :) - satisfaction.

A day with rafting was fantastic. Wasn't more than a 3 grade river but still fun. Was 42 of us so loads of peoples to chat with. Me gusta ! We started of up river where it was calm, got more rough later on. My boat was the smallest one, even better because it's faster ! Woohooo. We were five and one guide.  And we even stopped for some cliff jumping on the way. Not that high but whatever..  The water is freezing. God ! We were provided wetsuits, jackets so i survived. Good fun. Enjoyed it and I'm happy that I finally tried. Remember I wanted to do it in Australia and New Zealand in 06/07 but never got the thumb out my ass. Now it's time to sort out my way to Bolivia. Buena suerte ! - Aaaaaajiaaaajaaaaah ! 

Cuzco is lovely. A bit touristic but sweet. Very safe and I just love walking around in the small cobblestone streets bumping in markets and small shops. I've done a week of Spanish, oh yeah four days only. Didn't do very well, have to study more and stop my heavy partying. I usually understand what they are saying but I can't speak to them. I'll get in to it !  Had fun at the course at least and that's the most important.. This week it's been the inti rami, the incas festival of the sun, they all dress up in there lovely colorful dresses and customs. Play music and dance on the streets.  They eat loads of guneapigs during this holiday, around 30.000 is getting killed. They have them all over the streets stuffed with a peppers in there mouth. Grows and really different, specially when we have them as pets back home. The other morning when I crashed in another hostel where I had some friends staying J woke me up with a guneapig in my face. Man, that was a different waking up. Fun thoe, so I just had to taste it. Was like chicken but a bit more like slimy fish meat. I won't eat it again, it just feels wrong.. This Friday was the last day. They have a huge celebrations at the main square. Dancing and then they sacrifice a lama at the top of the hill. It was definitely worth staying here for the festival ! Happy to.  Right now I'm stuck in Cuzco, it's been strejks of all the borders of south Peru. So I just can't get to Bolivia. Flights are redicilous expensive to. Supposed to leave today but they cancelled my bus. Seams like they are going again so maybe. But just maybe I'm off. You still have to make a illegal border crossing by boat too. I don't really want to do that part by myself because it's really dodgy but if I have to I have to. I'll work it out somehow. You always met someone :) been hanging out with tons of different peoples over here. Someone new everyday. Love it ! So, tomorrow I have a full day of rafting. Fucking awesome. Looking forward to it. - under the pavement.

Salkantay walk to Machu Picchu. Got picked up at four in the morning. Fucking noisy canadians kept me awake.. Wasn't a good start with half an hour sleep and still could feel the altitude. Cuzco is at 3300m.. We drove for a couple of hours, had breacky and kept going. Loved my group straight away, Mark, KeV and Oggie from the UK and Mike, Tasha from Canada. Nice and small. :) The first day was gonna be the hardest, we walk up beside a glacier at 4600 m.. The views was the best I ever seen. I got really sick thou, the altitude hit me really hard. Got fever, dizzy, wobbling, puking.. Horrible. My guide tried to put me on the emergency hours but I refused. I was there to walk. In the end I collapsed so I HAD to go on the horse. We walk for the hole day, arriving after dark. I was exhausted and felt like shit. Went straight to the ice cold tent for a nights cold sleep. We were speaking next to the snow ! At least I was happy seeing snow again.. Woooop ! As the next coming days we went up early, between five and half six every day. Second day was better but till wasn't in the best shape. This day we started to decent, camping at 2500m.. Still cold ! The third day was one of the best, the vegetation change to more jungelish and I felt like a human again. Being up in the front, laughing and enjoying my ass off. Find a cool kind of zip line with a cage on at a high of at least hundred meters over the river. We all went out one at the time.. Freddy our guide had never even seen it. Fuck that was fun ! Played football at the camp sight. Heavy at that altitude.. The fourth day we climbed up a mountain called Llactapata at 2700m. Started at 1900m. Took us two and a half hour. A bit heavy but great. Started early so it wasn't to warm ( even thou it's winter.. ) amazing views when we got up there and we got the first glims of the Machu Picchu. The terraces ! Th We were all tired after seven hours of walking so skiped the last straigth and boring dirt road to Aguascalientes. Tooked the train, so we had time to enjoy the hot springs. Good need after four days of walking. Last day we went up at three in the morning, queuing for the bus to Machu Picchu. The is only 400 tickets each day walking up to Waynapicchu so we had to be there early. Thanks to Freddys big que jump we got the tickets,, ! Getting in to Machu Picchu was brilliant. Loved it. It's on a high of 2400m and in a really good shape. Can't believe they built that big inca city at that steep hight. We walk around, and went up Waynapicchu at half ten. ( after a short nap in the sun.. ) not every day you have a nap at the MP. Waynapicchu is only 400m up, nothing for us.. Haha. Really really steep, so one millimeters stepp wrong can cause your life. Sweating getting up there but the views over MP was sweet and just being able to walk around the ruins looking over the side of a mountain being able to fall down at any second gives you a got damn puls. I took my saved special bottle of rum that I've been saving since the el dorado distillery in guyanas with me on the trip. No one complained about that ! iii. Aguascalientes was very turistic but we all liked sitting down eating and playing cards waiting for the llate train to Take us back to Cuzco. The salkantay is a big recommendation from me. Loved it ! Such a cool walk, and MP itself is worth to see. One day I'm gonna do the real incatrail, arriving at the sungate. But that's a next trip taking plan.. That's all for now, do what you do it's just a matter of time. - You're jumping around my head. Keeping me busy. Now, in Cuzco, waiting for Nick and Lou. Hanging out drinking coffee and chilling. Partying to of course.. Starting my Spanish course tomorrow. Looking forward to it !

Hucachinna, four km outside Ica, is Hucachinna just a small oasis. Tons and tons of sand is surrounding it. Pretty cool. Found a cool hostel just next to the green lagoon and hanged out with Nick for my three days there, It's nothing to do at all, but both of us was happy about it. We did the sand buggy tour and sand boarding, epic. I loved it, it's like a rolercoaster in the desert. Definitely worth doing. We walk up on some of the sand dunes around, steep and heavy workout. Otherwise we played a lot of cards laying in the sun and chilling. I also hanged out with the locals in my hostels and they all gave me a salsa lesions. I'm the master now.. Haha no, not really ! At least I've made them all laugh.. :) Rigth now I'm in Cuzco, took a 18 hours night bus here. Suffered, couldn't sleep at all. Fuck ! Felt the altitude pretty bad yesterday, I'm on 3300 meters. I really love couzco, such a cool plaze. And Im staying in the biggest hostel in south America. Loki backpackers. Tomorrow I'm gonna do the Salkantay walk to Machuu Pichuu, a five day and four night treck. It's gonna be heavy but I'm sooo excited doing it. To see the inca ruins up there is gonna be amazing, It's cold here, winter time. Freezing during the night, I'm not used to this climate anymore.. The first night is gonna be minus.. Leaving four a clock tomorrow morning so no drinks tonight. Said that last nigth, was exhausted after that bus drive but ended up drinking and went to bed at half two. That's not gonna happened tonight, for sure ! Booked a week Spanish course that's starting when I get back. Hopefully I'm gonna learn a little bit, it's about time. Love Spanish. Yey. - Inca, Cuzco, Peru.

From Quito to Lima took us from late afternoon on the 2nd to 03.30 on the 4th Sunday morning. More than 1400 km.  Pretty tired at the time we got there and bored sitting in the truck doing nothing for those days, in one way I was ready to get off. Finally. But then there is goodbyes, which I hate. Love traveling but hate goodbyes. That doesn't go hand in hand at all. I had a great time being on the truck. All thanks to Adam, South America overland, who never gives up and doing the best for everyone. You are awesome !  And all the others giving me a smile. You're in my heart as a amazing memory ! Chilling out in Lima was sweet, seeing the elections on Sunday and just browse around beautiful miraflores. The nice neighborhood in Lima.  Watching surfers, skaters, drinking coffee, shopping and chilling. Hanging out with locals eating the local chebice - raw seafood cooked in lime and chili. Delicious.  Drinking chicha ( think it was.. ) a purple drink tasting like lemonade. Good impression.  And later on from jugos ( juice.. ) and coffee to shots, cocktails and beers. I don't have problems enjoying myself.  Now I'm looking over the brown, hilly, sandy landscape of Peru. Watching the big waves rolling in over the coast on my way to Hucachina.  - Salud !

We ended our trip and tour with South America Overland in Quito 1st of June.  Had a outstanding goodbye party at the strawberry swing bar even known as the Beatles bar. Cocktails, dancing and a lot more give us a cool evening.  I wasn't too happy waking up with a swollen wrist the next day. Apparently I fell somewhere during the night at landed pretty bad. Even now 6 days later it's still too big. Opps. It was worth it thoue, and that's the most important.  I know I didn't see much of Ecuador, but it was just the galapagos that tempted me and that's way expensive. Next trip I'll do it. If you don't leave you can never go back.. - memories. 

I'm waking up everyday feeling that I'm lucky. Blissful.  That I'm new born, and who doesn't like when they were born ?  I have a constant rush of luck in me. That's giving me tons of energy so I never stop smiling and I won't.  Doing what I love the most. Seeing the beautifulest ways of peoples, cultures and countries. There is no words for it " a picture is more than a thousand words " but " memories is inexpressible ". I can't even describe how happy I'm and how happy Im planing to stay.  I'm living in my biggest dream, the dream I always wish to come true to complete myself. And I'm doing it. But also, I realized that I can never have enough of this. There is always something new. Something to explore, someone to met and someone to love.  Sounds foolish in a way but I love my life and couldn't done it better then I'm doing it. I know that my grandma would love to hear everything I'm up to and we will giggle together when I tell her. She will always keep me smiling. I love you. He loved her so but she was already gone long ago,  he really wanted her to stay  but she could wait to get away.  Nu viskar jag de orden,  De vackraste jag vet,  Du var mitt allt på jorden, Mitt allt i evighet.

San Agustin is a tiny and boring town. It's nothing really to do there except the archeological park and surroundings.  I did really enjoy to see all those different old stone figures thats made to guard the graves. They usually have something in there hand, that archeology's things its weapons. The biggest one is 7m high and massive. The bigger ones has a weight of a couple of tons. Big bustards.  Spend first half day walking in the park seeing 135 different statues. Interesting but for me, that was enough.. The other half of the day we spend on horseback, going up on the hills looking at more statues, some painted in black, white, red and yellow. Exiting to see painted ones after 140 non-painted. The best was to be on the horse. Special when my horse loved to gallop. Awesome views overlooking the valley too. Couldn't have a better day.  We were supposed to leave the next day but got stuck in the mudd for almost 4 hours. We were all muddlooking figures after that and the dirt road to Popayan over the mountains takes a day of driving and its not safe to get stuck overthere so we it turned out to have a full day in San Augustin. Not to fascinated.  So, here we are heading for Quito, Ecuador and our last destination together. Some is going home and some will keep traveling. I'm gonna stay on the truck to Lima, Peru. And then going south and all by myself. I feel more than ready to do something by myself rigth now. It's about time. Even thoue I'm gonna miss all of them.  - Newton Faulkner - Lipstick jungle. 

Bogota is home for eight million peoples but still a sweet place to be.  Surprisingly clean and mordant. Stayed in a brand new hostel in the tourist area named La Candelaria which is south.  Went up the cable car looking over the views of Bogota, strolled around on the streets and other than that I spend my time with Botten. I was crazy happy to see him again and hopefully it wont take long until next time. When I met him I realized how important friends is and how many lovely friends i still have back home. Some I haven't spoke to in ages, some every now and then. But I hope and have the feeling that we get back together one day. The day I feel like going back home, that's gonna take a while, where home is I don't know. Of course I miss friends and family but not home' home. Could be because I've been fucking around as you say it or in a nicer way moving around. I don't feel like I belong to a particular place and right now I'm very happy not to. I love what I do, what I see and people I meet. Anyway, Me and Botten had a delicious Thai dinner at Zona T, lunch at the old part of Bogota with nice old buildings and cobblestone streets. Touristic and loads of fancy and expensive restaurants. We even went to the movies with Ben and Paul seeing the latest Fast and Furious. I thought it was good entertainment special when it's in Rio de Janeiro where I've just been ! I would love to have more time in Bogota not just celebrating Bottens birthday. To see museums and so on but you can't get everything.  Almost forgot, Botten even took me to one of his friends birthday party. It's always a pleasure to met locals.  From bogota we went straight out to the desert. Looked like a small grand canyon around us with cactus everywhere. They had a observation center watching stars but at night was overcast so there was nothing to see. Bugger ! Just got to San Agustin, where we gonna see some crazy millions years old architecture rock formations, almost like Easter island. Hoping to get around by horse..  - I like it, I like it a lot.

After all our diving Me, Paul and Toyha left for Tayrona national park. Took us a out an hour to get to the main entrance of the park, where we started to walk through the jungle, climbing up and down on rocks crossing empty beaches and finally we got to Cabo de Juan. the last beach.  The once in the beginning has a really strong current so you can't swim over there, but the last one is worth walking for. A lovely beach, a broad one which I prefer and the area around with mountains covered in rainforest, big rocks and clear water. As close to paradise you can get.  Sleeping in hammocks made it all better too. I love hammock sleeping. Can't tell why but it's just something different and I found it cozy. Because of the truck we had to leave the next day to catch them in Medellin. Missed Cartagena that should be a lovely place to visit but for Colombia, I'll be back for sure. Colombia is the best country I've been to, the people, nature, everything just hit me hard straight to my heart. I love it ! Catch s flight to Medellin, late as always so got there at late afternoon where we found a nice Thai restaurant with good food and a bottle of red wine later we got to the hostel meeting the others and head of to expensive hard rock cafe. I would say, always good food and drinks and funky but to fucking expensive. Medellin surprised me being that mordant as it is. A huge different compare to all the other big city's we been to. I like it, I like it a lot. Spend almost a day on the truck heading to Tamesis, a small town south, famous for the orange and coffee farms. Paul, Matt and Me spend the evening drinking beers with locals we met. Hardly no English and no Spanish for us but we worked it out as usual. Next day we drove for an hour to another of those small towns surrounded by mountains covered in green. We got some horses and went horse riding up the montains going too a coffee farm. Once there we got boots and a stick and where taking around the farm watching the differnent coffee plants and learned all the process. He also had cardamom so we got to taste it straight from the seeds. Delicious ! Had a tasty lunch, a broth with chicken, beef, big non sweet bananas, potatoes and advocate. Yummiii Colombian food. After horse riding back, we were pretty exhausted. In the morning at the next day Me, Paul, Matt and Sunny went tubing. A bit more rough than Laos. We got life jackets and helmets for the ride and did 8km of tubing down the crazy rocky river. Man, we all got some scars and bruises every where but worth it. I was laughing as much so I couldn't even paddle.. And after one night of bush camp we are soon arriving in bogota and I'm so looking forward to met the best Christian Botten again. Yey. - I don't waste any precious time. 

Colombia is a favorite all ready as everything else I've seen in South America. Arrived in Santa Marta and from there we made our way to Taganga a small beach town. Started my advanced diving course, it was about time, and I'm done. Did three days of diving, Deep dive on 30 meters, aswering questions, playing with the yolk and guessing fruits. Sounds strange to guess what kinds of fruit chopper ( instructor ) was bringing down with him but you loose your colors under water. Not all of course, red, orange are the most common. So a tomato for me turned out to look like a kind of peach. Hum. Navigation dive, you get a compass and have to swim in a square. Easy going. Photograph dive, I was taught to take pictures under water depending on ligth, angle and fishes. Interesting. I went to my old world, forgetting everything doing what I was doing. That could be my future occupation, a under water photographer. Hell yeah. Buoyancy was just a bit more advanced than the open water course. Nothing really special. Night dive, my first, was grande loco, going descend without seeing anything else than pitch black and the light from the other divers. Was even more special because of the strong current we turned out to get. All the fishes gets a brighter color when watching them with a torch. They are sleeping, hunting and just very satisfying to watch. That's the five dives included in my course. I took a wreck dive as an extra one. Going down to 26 meters swimming around a twelve meters drug smuggling boat that's been there for 20 years. We were able to swim inside checking there kitchen and some other opened doors. Even better than my Bali wreck dive. Now I'm a advanced diver, let's see where it takes me. I'm gonna keep enjoying my hammock locking over the beautiful bay of Taganga with a fresh mango juice in my hand. Hey Mate, you got to love life. - You have to die a few times before you could live.

Did a day trip to see some small islands on the north-east ( Caribbean ) coast to Venezuela. Crystal clear water and empty beaches. Just what i needed. Snorkeling and chilling. There's a lot of rubbish floating around thou so hoping that Colombia is gonna offer me something better.  With the mountains in my back I'm leaving the beautiful highs and cold climate around Merida, south Venezuela, for this time but for sure I'd love to come back. First nigth up here gave us 11 degrees, a huge change for being in warmer climates for six month now. I wasn't really prepared for it, but I cant call myself Viking not enjoying it. First day me, Paul and sunny went canyoning. Drove up the mountains west of Merida, walked along side of the hills to get to our start point. Wetsuits, helmets and repelling gear on and we went down throu the water, climbing over rocks, sliding down I'm small waterfalls. There was four big waterfalls, highest was 35 meters. So happy that I'm not scared of hights anymore, thanks to my travelling. Kind of heavy being in a big waterfall trying get your ass down but enjoyable. Definitely rock climbing next !  Exhausted with soar legs and some blue spots here and there we were all fine and satisfied in the end of the day. Yesterday me, Sunny and Matt walked 3km up hill on 4000 m. Man, altitude is heavy. And even worse being a bit hangover. Yeah, I now it's all my own fallt.  We spend 2 hours chilling out in the hot spring, haveing an amazing view over the mountains around us. Georgeus.  We were supposed to go horse riding close by but there was no horses available so we walk around and our guide which was the best ever bought us one bottle of rum and a coce. Funny enough we found ourself very thirsty finishing the hole bottle in 20 min for the three of us. So, he bought us another one and joined us. Got back to town and kept going, being pissed since three in the afternoon. I had a two hour sleep and Got myself ready to leave at 06.30 this morning and here i am, still fine.. Our guide said to us "you are not normal tourist, you are funny". Never happened that he's been wasted with some tour group before. Found him passed out in Matt's bed this morning.  The views around here is, I don't know, I can't even explain how amazing everything here is. From the beaches in Rio de Janeiro up the Brazilian coast. Seeing national parks and cruising on the amazon. Seeing rainforest, animals and waterfalls in The Guyanas arriving to the highs of Venezuela. I feel like I'm on clouds enjoying every second and every minute of my life. I really liked the cooler climate over here. Think I been missing it and think I prefer a country with seasons. Loving this out of my nipples. South America, you have my heart already and I haven't seen half of it. Colombia, I'm all yours..  - John ME - Run. 

Since I left Salvador on the coast of brazil none of us have met almost any tourists at all. It's really the road less travelled, a highlight itself course. And it's hilarious passing by on the street in the truck and everyone just stopes what they're up to looking at us and waving. As fast we got in to Santa Elena in Venezuela it changed.  Started to see other tourist already on the first hour. Santa Elena doesn't have much at all so we left they day after we got there heading north to the next big city doing one bush camp between. That was our plan.. The South part of Venezuela has a lot of waterfalls, so we had a few nice stops a long the road. Turned up that the camping spot wasn't a camping so we find ourself a nice hotel on the way.  During the evening Manuel and his son turned up and started to talk to us, we all become friends and he invited us to his home in a small city called otamina a couple of hours away in the same direction we were heading.. We changed our planes and took of to his place in the morning the day after. Met his wife and daughter over a lovely local dinner at there house. ( we brought alcohol of course ) and again they invited us to there friends the next day doing a boat trip. Keen as we are we did that to. Spend the hole day whit family and friends, barbecuing, chillin', boat trip. They took us out on a lake to a completely empty beach. No people and no boats as far we could see and the beach were untouched. Peaceful. Their all so friendly and I just love them. This is absolutely one of the biggest highlights on my trip. Venezuela, so far so good, loving hablas espaniol. :)  - Gringo loco. 

The most north town in FG is Saint Laurent, a small but interesting place that once been like the rest of the country a French colony. They kept the old prisons, which were still used in the 70/80th. Saturday morning keeps the town bustling with a lovely (mostly) fruit and veggie market and the early bird competitions on Sunday mornings. The competitions seems to be the man type of thing, the winner of course has the most singing bird. Be aware of the local drink, punch, it's rocking and almost undrinkable. You never get enough time to see everything, taking a couple of hours  with border crossings and Suriname doesn't have to much to offer but  stopped in Paramaribo for 2 days. Doing the normal city sightseeing, trying local food. Their roti is to die for. Indian I now, tasty !  Our second day some of us went for a bicycle ride seeing the areas closed by. The bike rental handed us a planned tour in Dutch ( Suriname was a Dutch colony. ) I find it funny that I was able to read parts of it. A mix of German, Swedish and English. I turned out being the guide of the day, their English spoken who doesn't have a clue what the book said. (UK, Aussies and Yankee's) Anyway, did two river crossings on local boats, wobbling around old forts with prisons, gun powder cellars and old cacao industries. Didn't do more than 60km, but with the heat is more than enough.  A twelve hours truck ride, with border crossing took us to Eena's guest house in Georgetown, Guyana. Started first evening with local beer and rum. Couldn't do it better. Our next day we made our way to Eldorado rum distillery, a guided tour that finished with rum tasting and of course buying rum in there own shop next door was cheap. Bought myself one of their spice rum, with rich of cinnamon flavor cost me ALMOST 4 USD or 22.50 SEK. Finally we got to a cheap country.  Second day was a bit more expensive but worth every cent of the 270 USD that we paid each person. Nine of us hired a small airplane, 10 seats witch our pilot, to take us to Kaieteur falls. 75% of Guyana is covered with rainforest so more than 16 million hectare and I'm happy seeing parts of it. Kaieteur falls, situated within Kaieteur National Park on Potaro river. The highest sheer drop waterfall in the world of 226 meter makes it one of those oh my god moments. Five times higher than Niagara. The environs of Kaieteur is home to a number of rare species, for me, the golden frog was impressive. You can only find them in one place and thats at Kaieteur. Their entire life cycle plays out in the water that collects in the giant - second largest bromeliad in the world, which is a kind of green bush likely palm tree. I was expecting a normal sized frog, schh so wrong I were. The golden frog is not bigger than the nail of my thumb. Quit small. Kaieteur National Park is Guyana's first National Park and established in 1929, encompasses 242 square miles of raw jungle. The surface of the highlands is roughly 2 billion years old and the earth oldest, also one of the three richest tropical areas on earth.  Never been in such a small airplane before, a bit scary but amazing. Our view was just stunning. All green with some creeks and rivers breaking in. After an hour tour seeing the closest area around we had a great local lunch and jumped back on the airplane heading more south to Orinduik falls. Orinduik falls thunders over steps terraces and swimming there was the best natural jacuzzi you'll get. Nice and cool for the hot weather and great views. The falls is on the border to Brazil so literally we were in two countries at the same time. Got back in the afternoon, exhausted for being awake since five having a wonder in botanical gardens first.  Hit the road at six in the morning the day after giving us 3 days of driving trough the jungle of Guyana. I really wanted to see some Jaguars and Tucan's but was unlucky..  Our second day we drove through Iwokrama, a protected area, almost like a park. Went to a lovely butterfly farm and in the afternoon we did the canopy walk. A walkway 30 meters up close to the tree tops surrounding jungle. Some of us saw Tucan's. I didn't, FAIL !  Crossed the border into Brazil and made it all the way to Boa Vista. Had a nice last dinner for Jo and Mark.  This morning I woke up at six with the door to my room completely open and Paul wasn't there.. Sat up and there he was laying with his feet in the room and the rest of him was in the corridor. Started to laugh, taking pictures and yeah I was on my way to leave him like that but as nicely I'm I didn't. He was a bit confused and was back sleeping after five seconds.  Big goodbye hugs to Mark and Jo and now we are on our way to Santa Elena, Venezuela. - Morning Glory.

French Guyana, here I'm. The roads between Brazil and FG is dirt roads so we were all prepared for some digging if we would get duck somewhere. We were only stuck once, or the trucks before us was stuck which made us wait until someone could pull it up the hill. Tree hours of waiting with poring rain, lacy brazilians and mud everywhere.. But we had fun, as usual. The road had one of the best views of the jungle so far. It was on both sides of and thick. You couldn't see anything through it and some rivers coming up to. I was just sitting paralyzed watching the view. Crossed the river and entered French Guyana, road less traveled, and arrived late in the evening at the capital Cayenne.  Got the visas for Suriname which cost me 42€ and it's the only visa I need for South America. Anyway, cayenne was a small like the rest of the country but I did like it. A huge difference compared to brazil. It's not just very very expensive but so much Europe and yeah French of course. You could actually walk around without worrying.  None of us wanted to spend some days in the city so we left further north where we stayed for a night watching turtles laying eggs on the beach. The first turtle I spotted was a "normal" kind and she tooled 2,5 hours to lay her eggs and go back into there water. Turned out to be very long but we watched her all the way trou. Loved to sitting on the beach, watching those massive turtles doing there crazy sound trying to scope the sand over the eggs. We spotted some leatherbacks to, the biggest turtles. Tried to found out how big they are so I laid down close to it and the first one was in my size around 1,65 meters and the biggest we saw must have been something like 1.85m. They can get a weight up to 900kg. They way there looking makes me think of dinosaurs.  No tourists, big moon and a lot of turtles. Didn't get back until half two. Unlucky you can't take pictures with flash because it scares them so I don't have any pictures but I keep it in my memories. This night we did our camping in the garden to some locals that invited us. Had a wonderful night dancing samba and drinking to strong drinks. Hit the space center ESA in Kouru this morning and went on a tour around the area. Cool to see a real space center where they send up satellites for european countries. The reason why they have it in FG is because it's on the equator and the speed of earth gives the rockets extra power to lift so its using one/third of fuel than normal and they also have the power to send heavier satellites. Maximum weight for the satellites is 10tons, that's only 1% of the total weight. 90% is fuel and the last 9% is engine etc. It's using 200 tons of fuel in two minutes and that's when the two boosters on the side is falling of back in the sea. At 36.000 km from earth is our biggest satellites and they last up to 15 years. We been sending over 4000 satellites into space and only 10% is working so right now they're trying to find a way to take them back.  If something would go wrong and the rocket will explode it's gonna make hole in a area of 1km.  South Africa where gonna send one satellite up last Friday but something with the Vulcan engine didn't work. The rocket stopped and they are gonna try again next Friday.

24 hours on the boat across the amazonas was probably enough. Went from Belem to Macapa. Its the same all over but the view was just amazing. Laying in my hammock watching the worlds biggest rainforest passing by. A highligth so far I think.
Specially when we trough plastic bags out of the boat with food inside, gifts for the people living on the side banks of the amazon. They came up to us in there small wooden boats hoping to get some free food.
Enjoyed that moment. Hard to describe the trip, it was crowded with hamocks everywhere and you could hardly move without poking the person on your side. Sunny and I kept pooking eachother. But we all sleapt well.
Vodka is sometimes doing you good. I even woke up on my side in the hammock.

Had a good night practising samba on the boat. Though I was better after a while but apperently I was wrong. :)
Macapa its not the biggest place in earth and its nothing fancy to see at all. Celebrate Matt our first evening for his 51th birthday. Had dinner and Caiprinihas on the street and the traditional naked poolswim until sunrise.

Paul and I happend to do some sigthseeing the day after, saw the old fort and today we went to the equator. Zero Zero Zero. Nothing very special but thats all you can do here. Think we are all happy to leave tomorrow. Even if Miguel is not coming with us. Gonna do a big goodbye party tonigth ! 
Heading for the Guiyanas tomorrow, will get there in about two days I think.


                                                                                                                                                - Rock on.