(45) So what was your favourite…?

29 11 2011

I get a lot of questions like „What was your favourite country/place/thing you did..“.
The thing is, I can’t answer these questions, as I cannot reduce a 1-year-trip to just a simple answer to that. So I decided to choose some categories and then single out the things I remember most within these categories. Let’s begin:

  • Country, which has the best food: Mexico for sure
  • Best meal I had: Pancakes filled with cheese on a street food stall in León, Nicaragua for around 0,40$ a piece. Delicious!
  • Country, which has the friendliest people: Cambodia
  • Country, where travelling is easiest: New Zealand
  • If god were a men, every country would be like: Argentina (A country where half of the space in restaurants is occupied by a big barbecue, soccer is the national religion and women are beautiful. ;-))
  • Most strenuous activity I did: I call it a tie between climbing Volcano Concepción in Nicaragua and climbing Huayna Potosi in Bolivia.
  • Best fun sports activity I tried: I guess I have to say Skydiving, although it hurts your budget a bit..
  • Biggest surprise: Ending up as a participant of a Waiter’s run in Guatemala
  • Best Experience off the beaten track: Doing the Quilotoa Loop in Ecuador. A trek in a beautiful landscape, which is not crowded at all with tourists and where you meet friendly local people in the small villages along the way.
  • Places to skip: Cancún, Mexico and Baños, Ecuador; they are way too touristy for my taste
  • Best trip: The boat rides from Iquitos into the jungle and from Siem Reap to Battambang
  • Worst trip: The 36 hour bus ride from Luang Prabang to Hanoi

Now let’s come to my favourite pictures:

  • Category Landscape:

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Torres del Paine National Park in Chile

  • Category Fun:

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Enjoying our time in San José, Costa Rica

  • Category People:

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Winning Rock Paper Scissors makes the price go up 1 Dollar, the seller is happy!

  • Category Kids:

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Cambodian kids happy about the entertainment I provided

  • Category Sports/Activities:

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Having a glance inside Crater of Volcano Concepción in Nicaragua

  • Category Creativity:

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A nice optical illusion 🙂

  • Category Animals:

I know there are a lot of pictures of animals in this blog and it is hard to make a decision. But my choice is the following one:

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It looks like he is looking at me, right?

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