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Sana’a’s airport, one of the three countries where, according to the CIA, more terrorists seek refuge than any other.

Woman wearing Burkha

Not one, but many. This year, sequined burkhas are in fashion. Chanel or Dior veils are always a classic, but now everyone prefers sequins. If somebody is asking what are we doing in a country like this, the answer is very simple: to save 200 euros per person. The flight from Addis Ababa to Cairo was a lot cheaper with a layover in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, and so here we are. We haven’t left the airport, but the three-hour layover has been profitable.
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Flying from Nairobi to Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia.

Kalahari desert, Namibia

Africa is better understood from above, particularly from the window of an airplane. We’ve travelled several times on this continent and we’ve always seen the same thing: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It seems impossible that human life started here. It doesn’t matter that the arid landscape we now see used to be the Garden of Eden. The cradle of humankind has become a desert that has determined the destiny of the millions of people that populate it. And this is not because of its harsh unforgiving climate but because its rough and rugged topography never allowed for the creation of great empires capable of unifying massive territories. Pharaohs, Abyssinians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, sultans, caliphs and all kinds of kings and races, while powerful at a certain point in time, never could gain control of the whole continent, not even the greater part of it. In Europe, the Romans first and the absolute monarchies afterwards, bequeathed us a heritage that united territories and blended languages, facilitating relations and commerce among the different nations. Nonetheless, in the 20th century we fought not only with our neighbors to the north and to the south, but also fraternally, against our very own brothers. If that happened on a continent where there are scores of nations, imagine what it would be like in Africa where not hundreds but thousands of tribes, clans or ethnic groups coexist. A real slaughter, one made even worse totally random delineation of borders by Western powers, straight lines that cover the continent, tracing parallels and underlining meridians. Sometimes they separated ethnic groups or villages that depended on each other; other times they joint tribes that were archenemies or simply didn’t know each other. This mostly was because of power relations, though sometimes it was merely because Kaiser Wilhelm envied his great aunt Queen Victoria’s possession of two mountains.
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In a local bus going from Arusha to Nairobi, Kenya’s capital.

Africa's skin

Arusha is a small town in the north of Tanzania, a point of departure for all safaris heading to Manyara Lake, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarnagire Park, and a haven for tsetse flies. A couple of these bit Belén, and maybe it’s a coincidence, but she spent the whole day sleeping. From Arusha you can also easily cross the border into Kenya for 35 bucks, the price of the luxury bus that takes you to Nairobi in seven hours. The luxury part is only the price the few whites pay to travel. The rest of the passengers are locals who don’t even pay a tenth of what we had to spend.
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Amboseli, Kenya

We are not going to lie, the world is not wonderful. It has amazing places and nice people, but not everything looks like the rainbow. There are places where kids run after you for hundreds of meters to get an empty bottle of water. There are places where people fill the streets waiting for a job that will never come. There are places where shit up piles in every corner and nobody moves a finger to clean it. During this trip around the world, we have visited places that we never imagined, but we also had to escape from places that we would have never wanted to visit.
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Holbox, Mexico

Many times we have been asked about the best thing about this trip and we never hesitated with the answer. As impressive as the monuments we visited, or beautiful the landscapes have been, the best moment every day was around seven, when we were looking for a nice place to have a cold beer. After spending the whole day in a safari in Africa, swallowing dust in the Jordanian deserts, or avoiding crocodiles in Australia, we can assure you that there is nothing like sitting in a terrace and finish up the day there.
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Kings Canyon, Australia

Like any other title, this one, “the travelled” might sound pretentious, but nothing like that. Between traveller and travelled there’s the same difference that we find between cook and cooked. While the former has the upper hand, the latter has the situation out of hand. A traveller is the one who travels; a travelled is the one who has received bumps while travelling. We, after three months, weather we like it or no, have earned the “travelled diploma”. The same time it took us to learn what you cannot find in any guide and nobody will tell you:
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Easter Island, Chile

People don’t ask us about our luggage anymore, but about what countries we recommend them to visit. That is very understandable, because for a regular person it is possible to take 10 to 20 trips like this one in a life time, so they’d better choose the right place from that long list of desired places to go. At www.way-away.com you will find our Trip Advisor. According to the days that you have, the time of the year you want to travel, your budget and your interests, we find the country suits your preferences.
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Sossusvlei, Namibia

From the moment we said that we were going to travel around the World, people asked us all kinds of questions. Funny that the most extravagant, is also the most frequent. What do you pack when you travel for a year? It’s the million euro question. We are going to give you the answer. The important thing it’s not what you are going to put on, but what you are going to take off. We have already sent home 20 kilos, and counting.
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Pingyao, China, medieval city.

Bazaar, Shanghai, China

We have been just in three or four countries and we have been mistaken by tourists from different countries: Irish, German, Italian, but most of all by pariahs. And I can understand that we don’t look like the brightest, but if they have tried to still our wallets one day after the other, from the right and the left, what do they do to the typical retired American couple, or the people who are not used to travel? Who knows! Maybe the former, looking naïve, are the kings of leaving the restaurants without paying, and the latter don’t have any doubts to pick a taxi driver’s butt if they are trying to cheat.
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Africa, after being on a safari in 5 different countries.

Elephants, Serengeti, Tanzania

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania:

One of the most beautiful places we have ever seen. It is like an illusion with 600 metres walls forming a natural fence in which thousands of animals live as if it were a dream. It is the main reason to go there. We could also see there a black rhinoceros, not usual at all.
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