Светлана Сараева

2. Любоваться на Ла-Пас с высоты. Ла-Пас - очень необычный город, атмосфера и колорит просто зашкаливают. Но только поднявшись на высоту, можно оценить его масштабы. Смотровых площадок здесь просто миллион...

In travels, everything is just like in life: the most important thing is that with each new country, as well as with the past years, do not lose the ability to be surprised and admire. And also pay attention to details, do not look back, and do not compare with what has already happened. Carpe diem, as they say. Although, this does not apply to Bolivia. The country surprises and delights to the fullest. We spent exactly a month here and, frankly, our expectations were very high. So many people admire this country, and so many rave reviews were read before the trip...

Early morning. Avenida de Mayo, the central avenue of Byres. A series of colonial buildings in the shadow of huge plane trees, stretching several kilometers from the Pink House (Casa Rosada, i.e. the presidential palace) to the monumental building of the Congress, for a moment making you really believe that you are somewhere in Europe.  On one of the houses there is a yellow sign about which I read so much. Havanna. No, no, we are in Argentina. I don’t know what you thought, but this is the most famous chain of coffee houses here...

“To fall in love with Ushuaia at first sight, you need to fly there by plane,” I read once. As a matter of fact, this is how it turned out. Before that, we just went to the track to Mount Fitzroy and watched the stunningly beautiful Perito Moreno Glacier near El Calafate. Ushuaia has always been a dream - inaccessible, as far as possible from everything where we have been before and practically inaccessible. And now we are close, on the map some couple of centimeters separate us from the dream, but it’s hard to get there by crossing the border of Chile, but we don’t have a visa...

To be honest, Argentina never entered my top 5 countries where I wanted to visit in the near future. I had little idea what was interesting there and how huge it was. And also - where is the mysterious Ushuaia and what exactly from there cruises to Antarctica start. But it so happened that the most normal tickets for our big South American trip that we found were in Buenos Aires. So I thought, ok. Uyuni and Machu Picchu, namely they made the limit of my American dreams, will not go anywhere. And she began to prepare...

Behind the porthole is night, 6 degrees above zero and rain and wind piercing to the strings. I inhale the icy air, fasten the windbreaker and briskly walk down the ramp. Literally two steps from the ladder to the bus, my brand new moccasins, in which I was going to hang out here for a day, turn into a wet something. Hello Istanbul and winter after so many months of ongoing summer. For a person who has not seen winter for several years, this is a shock. I remember right away that I had never loved her and during all this time I had never been bored...

1. Buenos Aires. Here we want to celebrate my birthday. And that, I think, is a very suitable place. Believe me, six months ago, BA was for me a city in which tango is dancing at every intersection. On this all my knowledge ended. But a huge "research" work was carried out and I already love this city in absentia. And I know where the best empanadas with 200 years of history are sold, where the locals go, when you want choripan and that provoleta is grilled cheese, which is served as a snack in front of the divine steak in the right parrillas...

Well, it's time to tell you about our next big dream. When you read this post, we will already be at the airport, once again said goodbye to Bali (but with a light heart, because we are sure that we will definitely return there soon). The dream of seeing South America appeared in my head long before Nepal. And this was in those distant times, when I still had no idea that one day I could leave — alone, with a backpack — to explore new countries. So - I read about Machu Picchu in those distant days, and this place seemed to me - the most mysterious and unattainable on the planet...

Read about the start of our honeymoon and safari in Kenya here. And we flew to Zanzibar. After five days of safari in Kenya and four national parks, I wanted to wash off all the dust of Kenyan roads and plunge into the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean. Having bought a ticket from a Kenyan airline with the proud name of 540, we, as it were, to put it mildly, were a little worried. A rich imagination painted the already dilapidated 14-seater airplanes in which they issue cotton wool so that their ears do not block...

Life is in full swing everywhere, people are smiling, children are playing on piles of garbage and it seems that there is no other Kenya - with hotels for $ 500 a day, restaurants with an average bill of 100, ballooning over the savannah for 900 for two .... Kenya that came down from the pages of glossy publications that tourists see. Being there, it is impossible to believe that these two worlds exist with each other in the same reality. In order to recover at least a little and get distracted,...

I was always sure that my wedding would be in Bali. And so it all happened. But with a honeymoon a hitch came out. The fact is that with our rhythm of life and statistics of movements around the globe, places where I certainly want to visit and who really inspire, there are fewer and fewer. The last such bright dream on our list was South America. After her, the new cherished dream did not want to be in any way. At first, we went over in our head more and more suitable places for a honeymoon - romantic secluded islands with chic villas washed by turquoise water...

4. Myth about Africa cheaperness and a chapter on why it is important to choose hotels correctly it's expensive here, you just have to come to terms and accept it as a fact. Forget about Asian prices....