When I opened my eyes at 7am, we had already crossed the border with Meta Department. We were getting closer and closer to José del Guaviare. I was exhausted after a long, sleepless night on a mini van from Bogota. Yet, I was ready for my adventure into the Amazon, in San José del Guaviare….
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Dentro la comunità indigena Kogi
Tiro fuori i 10,000 pesos e glieli porgo. Francisca li mette in un borsellino di tela. “Bienvenidas”, ci dice. Sua figlia di due anni corre scalza nella polvere, rincorsa da due bimbi dai capelli neri corvini. Mi trovo all’ingresso del villaggio della comunità Kogi, una delle 4 comunità indigene (le altre si chiamano arhuacos, wiwas,…
Inside Bogota’s Botanical Garden
A photographic journey In 2016, I visited Rio de Janeiro’s Botanical Garden – I took hundreds of pictures and then lost them all, but that’s another story. Ever since that day in 2016, I felt reluctant about exploring botanical gardens in other cities of the world. None of them would be as wild, rich in…
Traveling as a Vegetarian: how to
Traveling as a vegetarian can be hard. Welcome to the golden guide to make vegetarianism exciting even while traveling. In 2018 I spent 6 months in India as an exchange student. I did experience the notorious cultural shock everyone talks about, but not when I arrived there. Instead, I felt it on my skin when…
Why Fuori Mura
I was walking back home from work the other day when it hit me. I was thinking, “should I go to the supermarket directly or I better go home first, drop my stuff and then, go to the supermarket? Well, my backpack it’s actually quite heavy (I filled a 3 litres water bottle at work,…
7 things I’ve learnt in my first 48 hours in Bogotà
On Wednesday, March 24th I woke up in Bogotà, Colombia. I immediately felt tired, thirsty, hungry and incredibly excited. Ahead of me were what I knew were going to be the first, and most intense hours of my entire experience. The first 48h are always insane: you don’t know the place and you need to…
Q&A about Bogotà!
Answering 10 of the most common questions I’ve got in my first month in Bogotà in the middle of a pandemic!
Bogotà was meant to be
One month ago, I was in the countryside of Charleroi, a small city close to Brussels, Belgium. I was quarantined in the middle of nowhere, it was constantly raining and I spent most of my day baking bread and playing with a very cute dog, Mazzu. Today, one month later, here I am in Bogotà,…
I ended up in Colombia in the middle of the pandemic
Are you stuck at home, reminiscing your pre-pandemic life, made of traveling and working abroad? Are you worried about your future especially work-wise? That was me about 2 months ago. In this video I’m tell you how I have managed to overcome that and how I ended up working in Bogotà in the middle of…
Walking home
Today only in Bogotà, 3825 new covid cases were confirmed. Ambulance coming and going across the city. At 17:30 I leave the office, under a light rain. I walk through the overcrowded carrera 7, with people queuing at the bus stops, and the bored policemen standing with their very cute, slightly bored drug-sniffing dogs. I…