(Malmö, Sweden, 21st of August 2017)
OK then, next place to visit, South America!
We leave on the 15th of September for Cartagena in Colombia and get back to Sweden from Rio the Janeiro on the 14th of December, (just in time to get all set for Christmas at home.)
Our plan for this trip was to travel very “light” so we recently got us two 40 litres backpacks to keep down the volume and weight of our luggage, and that alone has almost turned out to be a mission impossible as we since then have added pretty advanced hiking and, accompanying that, cold weather, to our travel plan, meaning we need to bring sturdy hiking boots and enough clothes to keep us warm when we get up above 4000 mtrs altitude. But we are optimistic about this and believe that we finally will manage to get down to a total “carry-on weight” under 10 kilograms per person. (And that is including Christels Yoga mat!)
We will start our trip in the north, in Colombia, and then we get around the continent more or less following the west coast all the way down before we start heading up towards Brazil and Rio on the East coast.
Below is our route, however, the stops are just an idea of where we could go and in what order to do it. By experience we get new ideas on where to go while travelling making us ending up in places we did not even know existed! (And that is what travelling is all about!)
Have you visited South America yourself and have recommendations on where to go, please get in touch with us either by leaving a comment, or if you prefer so, by mailing to info@hanning.se.
(You can walk through the stops on the map by pressing the arrows.)
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(Bali, Indonesia, 28th of June to 7th of August 2017)
Right before, after and in between all yoga classes at Christels yoga teacher training at Samasti yoga we have had some time to drive around Bali on our motorbike.
We have seen a lot of rice fields, ……….
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(Bali, Indonesia, 2nd to 30th of July 2017)
I can’t believe my yoga teacher training in Bali is over – I am actually an yoga teacher now!
It has been 4 weeks of hard work but with a lovely group of people who have supported each other along the way.
(Sydney, Australia to Malmö, Sweden 11-12th of March 2017)
Our first flight from Sydney to Beijing was 11 hours long and we managed to sleep a lot of the time. Dinner was served at 10 in the evening and breakfast at 5 in the morning, it is not strange that you become confused? Like last time we flew we had a long stop in Beijing. We got one comfortable reclining chair each and if it had not been for the airport being very cold everything had been perfect. But we did manage to get some sleep and time passed fairly quickly.
Next flight section was 9 hours long led us all the way to Stockholm and after two hours of waiting and a further one hour flight, we finally landed at Kastrup. A trip of 36 hours was finally over. Now home and repack the bags, in 30 hours we will be on the flight to Majorca.
/Christel
(Sydney, Australia, 8-11th of March, 2017)
After our somewhat hasty decision to leave Australia a month earlier than planned, we felt very glad about our decision. We both thought that Australia has been a little too similar to Sweden and the rest of the Western world. We really appreciated the excursions in the Outback and Kangaroo Island and the big cities have bid on fun experiences but a month and a half has been just as long as we needed. Read More
(Albury, Australia, 3rd to 7th March 2017)
When it was time to travel on we took the train from Melbourne 3 hours straight north into the mountains. We had planned to stay in a small town called Albury in a month to ride our bikes, swim and do yoga. I had booked an apartment the first four days to check if this was a good place to stay in.
Albury is very close to another town called Wodonga, although not in the same state. In Wodonga, I found a nice yoga place, Green room yoga, and five hundred meters from our apartment, just a short walk through the Botanical Gardens of from there was a fresh outdoor pool. Everything was perfect except when it came to cycling. Johan was out cycling a lot, tried different roads and also followed different bike groups on their trips. Unfortunately, the mountains turned out to be anything but high and motorists anything but biker friendly.
(Melbourne, Australia, 3rd of March 2017)
One of the days in Melbourne, we booked a bus tour to ride along The Great Ocean Road – a piece of road east of Melbourne, known as one of the most beautiful roads in the world. We were picked up by our bus at the hotel and this time the bus was a bit newer and nicer. Sheila was the name of our guide and she was a talkative young lady.
The weather during this day was anything but beneficial. It was both foggy and cloudy and the pictures that were supposed to be so beautiful did not get particularly nice.
During the day we did a lot of stops. We saw “The 12 Apostles” – which is no longer 12 as some of them have ripped into the water.
We also saw the rainforest and a lot of koalas.
/Christel
(Melbourne, Australia, 3rd of March 2017)
We spent a few pleasant days in Melbourne, a city that we both liked. Melbourne is a cool city filled with cool graffiti paintings, street musicians, cafés and a generally relaxed atmosphere. Our hotel was in the middle of an Asian part of town with lots of restaurants from all corners of Asia and walking distance to the city center. We went a mandatory “free walking tour” and among others we heared the story of Ned Kelly, Melbourne’s Robin Hood.
(Melbourne, Australia, 27th of February 2017)
This morning we had booked tickets on a train to Melbourne which would depart 7.45 in the morning. Then as we had to check in bicycles and luggage we needed to be at the station an hour before, which meant we had to ride away from home at six o’clock in the morning.
The train from Adelaide to Melbourne is called the Overland and is a train that sounds very fancy but actually is just an ordinary train that has got a nice name. It passes through the Australian landscape with cows, trees, fields, hills and the occasional kangaroo. Sure, there were some pretty nice views along the way but really nothing that is neither fantastic or amazing.
During the train ride, we amused ourselves by reading, playing games, writing diary and eat our packed lunch.
The train journey took 10 hours and we must admit that we were quite ready to get off the train as the train arrived at the station in Melbourne.
/Christel
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