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Travelling around the world following intuition and what destiny brings to me. Being surprised everyday, serendipity.

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A year and a half in numbers: time for a new phase!

May 25, 2017 by pile Leave a Comment

Experienced sailor

19 months, 558 days… 20 “countries” and 12 different time zones… 7 sailing boats, 19 flight connection, Tens of trains and countless buses… Plus a very special Rickshaw: Delilah! These are only some numbers recalling the incredible adventures of the Wave of Destiny   I learned many things from meditation to open my heart to […]

Filed Under: Africa, Argentina, Aruba, Asia, Brazil, Bucket List points, caribbean, Chile, Curacao, Environment, Go Green, Greece, Hiking, India, Italy, Mediterranean, Morocco, Myanmar, Patagonia, Road trip, South America, Spiritual, Uncategorized, Uruguay Tagged With: Destiny, dreams, Italy, sailing, travel, travel ban, wave, Wave of destiny

The festival of Boi Bumba on the Brazilian Amazon island of Parintins.

October 20, 2016 by pile 10 Comments

The remote island of Parintins is the stage of the incredible Boi Bumba festival: An explosion of colours, passion and pure joy that every June attracts thousands of people from all around Brazil and few nearby countries, but keeping genuine and not touristic as many realities nowadays. The island is kind of divided into two […]

Filed Under: Brazil, Sailing, South America Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon river, Boi bumba, Brazil, Carnival, festival, folklore, island, Manaus, Parintins, tribe

Belem in the Amazonian region of Brazil

October 17, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

The city of Belem has an important history as the outpost for the European colonisers to explore the Amazon region (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belem). To reach Belem from Chapada Diamantina a long night by bus to Salvador de Bahia to get my first flight after over 4 months travelling around South America. Thanks to Couch-surfing (www.couchsurfing.com), I meet a new […]

Filed Under: Brazil, South America Tagged With: Amazon, Belem, Brazil, cachaca de Jambù, Couchsurfing, Ver-o-peso

Chapada Diamantina national park: surrounded by nature and majestic cliffs!

October 6, 2016 by pile 15 Comments

Wild horses

After so many nights spent on buses mostly sleeping, reading and writing the seven hours to reach Chapada Diamantina from Salvador de Bahia pass in a blink of an eye. I get off the bus at Palmeiras where a jeep picks me up and in an half hour drive I’m finally at Vale do Capao! […]

Filed Under: Brazil, Go Green, Hiking, South America Tagged With: Brazil, canyon, Chapada Diamantina, cliffs, hiking, mountain, mountains, nature, Vale do Capao, wild, Wilderness

Boipeba Island, Bahia Brazil: a paradise still untouched by mass tourism

October 3, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

Boipeba hostel

Since I started to explore this huge country named Brazil I also started hearing the suggestion to visit the “wonderful island of Morro de Sao Paulo” located just south of Salvador de Bahia. But a neither a couple weeks ago I was in Sao Paulo and not without a coupIe of beers a friend revealed […]

Filed Under: Brazil, Road trip, South America Tagged With: Bahia, beach, Boipeba, Boipeba island, Brazil, paradise, Salvador, Salvador de Bahia

Rio de Janeiro: a unique vibe!

September 15, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

Running on Copacabana and Ipanema beaches

I can’t still picture the real size of the Rio de Janeiro metropolis that even from the airplane seems to not have any end in any direction. It was February, few months ago, when I landed in Rio de Janeiro for the first time in occasion of the Brazilian carnival (The best carnival and waterfalls on earth), one of […]

Filed Under: Brazil, South America Tagged With: Brazil, Copacabana beach, Illha Grande, Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, running, Santa Teresa

Colonial city of Paraty: wonders and water reflections @ Brazil

June 16, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

Paraty water reflections

As happened before the suggestion of other travellers and locals met on the way resulted in beautiful surprises: the small coastal town of Paraty in the state or Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is one of them! A night bus from Sao Paulo drops me in the tiny bus station (“Rodoviaria”) of Paraty in the middle of […]

Filed Under: Brazil, Colonial city, South America Tagged With: backpacking, Brazil, colonial city, Paraty, pile_82, Roberto Pilenga, solo traveller, travel, Water reflection, Wave of destiny

From Argentina to Brazil through Uruguay!

June 10, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

Wonders of PARATY: colourful colonial city of Brazil

What to do next? Where to go? Cross Uruguay to reach Brazil and start exploring with agood friend from old times Head South to Buenos Aires, the capital of this beloved country Explore the North East of Argentina between Tucuman and the Jujuy to cross then in Bolivia. Let’s try to summarise what has been the last month around the World…I’m in Colon, Entre Rios region, just next to Uruguay Border. I ended up in this small town to visit Paula, a friend met through Couchsurfing back when I was

Filed Under: Argentina, Brazil, South America, Uruguay Tagged With: Argentina, Brazil, Colon, crossing Uruguay, Curitiba, Entre Rios, Florianopolis, Graffiti, Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo, South of Brazil, Street Art, Villa Maddalena, Virada Cultural

Vipassana meditation: what to expect from these 10 days of silence?

May 5, 2016 by pile 68 Comments

10 days of Silence – Vipassana meditation retreat!

   Here we are again.. Since my last post when leaving El Bolson and its friends almost a month has passed. Many places and experiences, but one in particular went deep inside me: 10 days retreat to learn Vipassana meditation technique, the same discovered by Buddha over 2500 year ago! The course is starting in a week time near Cordoba, over 1800 Kms drive from El Bolson, but before closing myself in complete silence I have time to visit San Carlos de Bariloche with its mountains and the

Filed Under: Argentina, Bucket List points, Hiking, South America, Spiritual Tagged With: Argentina, backpacking, Bariloche, Bucket List, Buddha, Capilla del Monte, Cordoba, Dhamma, El Bolson, enlightment, hiking, Meditation, retreat, silence, solo traveller, Wave of destiny

I stop here in El Bolson!

April 25, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

  “El Bolson te atrapa!” (El Bolson gets you!)It is probably the phrase I heard the most in the last month..  Climbing is one of my passions and thanks to this sport I met incredible friends. One of them apparently moved back from Milano to his home country and town: El Bolson, Argentina.  Destiny wants that this little charming town protected by the mountains is on my route North. Fabio and Yen are still travelling with me when we jump off the bus in the centre of El Bolson and receive the best

Filed Under: Argentina, Go Green, Hiking, South America Tagged With: Argentina, backpacking, craft, El Bolson, friendship, hichhiking, hiking, hippy, Mandala hostel, market, mountains, pile_82, solo traveller, tree climbing, Wave of destiny, wave_of_destiny

To the End of the World – Land of Fire (“Tierra del Fuego”) !

April 12, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

Three weeks driving day and night on a dusty road in Patagonia with limited access to a shower and having as home a crowded van was probably not enough!Addicted to this lifestyle and to Wicked Campers with Fabio and Yan we decide to give it another round and go even more South, up to where the road can bring us! And I mean it literally!  Our new house is a three seater van with a big wolf painted on one side. I must admit it’s not the epic Mystery Machine, but the Wold has its charm and grit!

Filed Under: Argentina, Chile, Patagonia, Road trip, South America Tagged With: adventure, Argentina, Bucket List, End of the road, End of the world, friendship, Land of Fire, pile_82, road trip, Roberto Pilenga, Tierra del Fuego, Wave of destiny, Wicked campers

Patagonia: a land of Adventures and Surprises!

March 26, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

What a challenge to describe with few words the last three weeks spent in the Wilderness and Nature of Patagonia jumping from one adventure to the other! To share the feeling of Freedom given by explore new lands and people with two Wicked vans that became the home for me and other nine other amazing friends while driving South from Santiago de Chile to the “end of the World” (also called Punta Arenas). Ten travellers “from all around the World!”, as we soon get used to reply in chorus to all

Filed Under: Argentina, Bucket List points, Chile, Patagonia, Road trip, South America Tagged With: adventure, Argentina, backpacking, Bucket List, Chile, Couchsurfing, friendship, hiking, Patagonia, pile_82, Punta Arenas, road trip, Roberto Pilenga, Torres del Paine, van, Wave of destiny, Wicked campers

The Best Carnival and Waterfalls on Earth!

February 28, 2016 by pile 1 Comment

Rio de Janeiro Carnival ! As I land in Rio de Janeiro’s the vibe and energy of the Brazilian carnival is all around me. Streets full of people dresses up with any kind of costume from the professional colourful dresses of the Sambódromo parade to last minute make up, the same I will try to do for the next 4 days. I catch up with Nora, a very good friend of mine since the time of my Erasmus in Spain 12 years ago, and after 40 minutes of taxi for 3 km around blocked roads we finally reach home.  

Filed Under: Argentina, Brazil, South America Tagged With: adventure, Argentina, Brazil, Carnival, friendship, Iguassu, Iguassu fall, iguazu, natural wonders, nature, pile_82, Rio de Janeiro, solo traveller, waterfall, Wave of destiny, wild

Living with the Amazon tribe

February 8, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

It takes a while to find the (first) jungle adventure and experience right for me… Already on the taxi the driver talk me through a standard tour offered by the agency he works for: pick up by a touristic mini van to get on a boat that sails up the Rio Negro and get photos with the pink dolphins, one or two nights in a comfortable forest lodge alternated with a night in the jungle an hour walk away from the lodge… Simply not what I’m looking for! It need a bit more than a couple of hours of

Filed Under: Brazil, Go Green, Hiking, South America

Back on Land.. is that the right wave?

February 2, 2016 by pile Leave a Comment

    Since my last post many things have happened: many positive, but also some very bad signs that made me really wonder and think twice on the decisions taken…   Dropped once for all my hopes to join Wylde Swan in sailing the Caribbean, I accepted the generous proposal from Luis to stay on board few days more with him and the amazing new friends from Atlanta. Mike and Kristin are expert paraglider up to the point that Mike had his year off to paraglide around the world.  His passion is aviation

Filed Under: caribbean, Diving, Sailing, South America Tagged With: Aruba, Carribean, Curacao, Diving, sailing, Saint Martin, Sint Marteen

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