Travelroute.

Planning too much of the final route is a mistake which most often occurs when people decide to go for a trip around the word. It almost happened to me, too. For this reason, I skipped my original plan to start with a bicycle trip from Lhasa (Tibet) to Katmandu (Nepal) and reduced my plans - for the beginning - to Africa and South America, the continents I`ve never visit before.
After a couple of weeks of physical and mental preparation (incl. Spanish lessons) I left for Africa on August 24th, 1999. The full report from my Africa trip is already on the africa page. After an Octoberfest-rest back in Germany I left for South America on October 2nd.

My South America trip started with language school in Ecuador and a visit to Galapagos. Mid November I climbed Cotopaxi (5.897 m) in Ecuador. Then i visited Machu Pichu (the famous Inka-ruins) and the beautiful lake of Titicaca.

On December 3 rd I flew from La Paz (Bolivia) to Santiago de Chile. The expedition up Acongagua - highest mountain of the Americas - ended at x-mas. I started the new millennium in Santiago de Chile and then went down to Pucon. Mid January I left the continent and took a long flight to Aspen in Colorado. After a week skiing I went back to Miami. I rented a car and went down to Key West and later to the Everglades. At the beginning of February I finally flew into good old New York City. I returned to Germany by the end of the month.