We cross the border from Panama to Costa Rica on the east side and make our first stop at the Caribbean coast. The small village Puerto Viejo is packed with tourists and the prices are very impressive. 

After we have loaded MOMO on the cargo vessel we fly from Cartagena to Panama beginning of November. After an almost endless waiting we finally made it. We come just right to the Independence Day. 

When you do the Panamericana from Alaska to Fireland or vice versa you will have the problem of the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama at some point in time. 

We`ve started our world tour end of March 2013 and our first destination on the list was South America. At this point in time for us a totally unknown part of the world with a foreign language and a lot of negatives in the press. It was a long discussion for us where to start and whether or not it`s better to start with a more known area like North America. However lastly Karin pushed it forward and today 2,5 years later we are happy and found it the right decision.

After we said Good Bye to our son Felix at the airport of Cartagena we head again to Central Colombia to catch up on missed highlights. Our first stop is Mompox. 

The old Colonial town Cartagena is the most popular tourist city in Colombia and a symbol of the Colombian life style. Many millionaires have an apartment at the waterfront in Bocagrande.

After the desert of Tatacoa with more than 35 degrees we now look forward to the mountains with more livable temperatures around 20 degrees. Our first stop on the footsteps of the Colombian Coffee is Salento the oldest town in this region. We go into a backpacker hostel a bit away from the city center where we find a space for MOMO. We are surrounded by young people travelling with backpacks and feel young and old at the same time.  In the evening we sit around a big campfire and exchange travel experiences. 

After six months in Ecuador we enter Colombia on the 22th of June. Going out of Ecuador needs again a lot of patience which seems to be usual when dealing with authorities in this country. 

After our outstanding holiday on the Galapagos Islands we have again homely arranged ourselves in MOMO and start the engines to explore the North of Ecuador. 

We leave our mobile home alone for two weeks at the Quito airport and make a trip to the Galapagos Islands.

We leave our nice place at the hotsprings of Jamanco and drive via Baeza to Oriente, the Amazonas lowlands of Ecuador

Before we fly home to Germany we stay a few days in Cuenca to recover from stresses and strains of the last days which were not just uneventfully with a few days staying in a hospital and an armed robbery in Quito.