About Me

Hola! Thank you for visiting my page and your interest in me. I'm Marc from Germany. On this page you can find some stories of my trips:

• Latinamerica
  It was always my dream to travel to the magical subcontinent Latinamerica. I visited all 17 Latin American countries on the mainland (excluded Venezuela and the 3 Guianas). It wasn't just a sole checking countries from my "to visit" list but rather I gained a lot of experiences that I wont forget:
  

  1. taking a Spanish course in one of the biggest cities in the world in Mexico City
  2. diving next to sharks, turtles and manta rays in Belize
  3. strolling through the colorful market of Chichicastenango in Guatemala
  4. getting a certified scuba diver in Honduras
  5. getting escorted by the police on a beautiful volcano hike in El Salvador
  6. climbing up and boarding down volcanoes in Nicaragua
  7. seeing huge turtles laying eggs in Costa Rica
  8. walking alone through the jungle in Panama
  9. getting blown away by the immense and diverse beauty of Colombia
  10. rushing through Macchu Picchu in Peru
  11. cycling the Death Road and being stuck next to a devilish figure in a mine in Bolivia
  12. swinging above the clouds in Ecuador
  13. celebrating the carneval in Brasil
  14. seeing the aftermath of protests in Paraguay
  15. cycling in the driest desert on earth in Chile on antibiotics
  16. tasting delicious local wine on a vineyard in Argentina
  17. eating the most expensive sandwich in Uruguay

  
  

• Eastern Europe
  During this trip I visited Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland and Transnistria, a country that does not even exist. Most of the time I spent in Ukraine, my personal highlight of this trip, fulfilling my dream to visit the post-apocalyptic zone around the exploded Chernobyl reactor.

• South East Asia, Australia/New Zealand & Western Europe
  I started this yearlong trip with a 2 month stay in South East Asia and visited Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia. Afterwards I flew to Australia for a working holiday visa, where I spent half of the time exploring the country and the other half working. I also spent a month in New Zealand, where I celebrated my 30th birthday with a skydive. On my return one year later I visited the British capital London for 5 days.

It was one of my Brazilian friends who gave me the nickname LatinoGerman. After spending so much time in Latinamerica I adapted a Latino-like easy life attitude and people started to mistake me for a Argentinian or Brazilian considering my look. However, at the latest on the dance floor, people could see from my stiff hip movements that I am German after all haha.

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