worldwalkSorry guys. We apologize for the current lack of updates. Thank you for your concerns. Due to budget and time issues the flow of information has been clogging. Again, we break the time-flow of the blog posts and give you an instant update on the situation. The brothers walked down to the town of Pasto, at the Colombian-Ecuadorian border. The Colombian stages of their walk were extremely hard on them, and they decided to put on hold their mission. After some 12.000 miles they thought that they...
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previous post. From Pasto the brothers took a jump to Caracas, Venezuela (spending their last reserves), where they got some help from locals, including the Hungarian community. After painting some window frames and doing other odd, and less odd jobs for three months, they managed to build enough background to take another leap, to return to the grounds of the European Union.In this case, to the island of Martinique (under French authority). So they went "home", right now they don't have t
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WorldWalk-Peacetour's last confirmed stop was Pasto, Columbia, on January 19, 2011. They stopped walking for various reasons explained in the previous post. From Pasto the brothers took a jump to Caracas, Venezuela (spending their last reserves), where they got some help from locals, including the Hungarian community. After painting some window frames and doing other odd, and less odd jobs for three months, they managed to build enough background to take another leap, to return to the grounds of the European Union.In this case, to the island of Martinique (under French authority). So they went
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Sorry guys. We apologize for the current lack of updates. Thank you for your concerns. Due to budget and time issues the flow of information has been clogging.Again, we break the time-flow of the blog posts and give you an instant update on the situation.The brothers walked down to the town of Pasto, at the Colombian-Ecuadorian border. The Colombian stages of their walk were extremely hard on them, and they decided to put on hold their mission. After some 12.000 miles they thought that they cannot go on like that. Without proper meals, with their ruined equipment, without having a budget that covers
Oh Christmas Tree
by FERENC IVANICSInstead of tropical jungles we've walked more than a hundred miles in pine forests. It wasn't something we had expected. It seems that the Pacific side of Honduras (and Guatemala and Nicaragua as well, for that matter) is dryer, and the Atlantic part is more humid with swampy jungles and sometimes impassable roads, loads of insects and a higher probability of infectious diseases. Tropical storms approach from the Atlantic coast as well. But here, it's fresh, breezy pine forests Not bad.
Real World, Schocking Covers
by FERENC IVANICSWe arrived in Santa Rosa somewhat tired. I was in bad shape, though getting better from my intestine infection, István, my brother was starting to feel bad with similar symptoms. We assume it's inevitable, one have to deal with it. We took a break just before Santa Rosa and I started to thumb a newspaper we had found somewhere. Three homicides that weekend. We weren't really surprised, it's like that here in Central America. But there's something that shock us: newspaper and magazine covers. There's a lot of violent deaths in Central America. Homicides and fatal accidents. Photos
Cloud Forests
by FERENC IVANICSBy looking at the roadside milestones we knew that we had walked some 13 miles uphill. But we didn't know how high we had managed to climb. We asked some locals. It was strange, none of them knew. A young lad said that he had a gadget in his car that showed our exact altitude. He checked, returned and said proudly: 33 miles. Ah, sure, 33 miles We thanked him and moved on. Later we learned that we were shivering about a mile above sea level (some 1600-2000 meters). Downhill it was easier, but since the movement worked on different groups of muscles, after a while it hurt the
Up in the Clouds
by FERENC IVANICSAt a gas station in Ocotepeque we had a conversation with a casual guy. First we tried to distract his interest in how much money we had with us and if we had a gun, and then we asked him how was the road to Santa Rosa. He said that there are some really tough mountains over there and he didn't want to believe that we would walk to Santa Rosa. We didn't really trust his judgment, but did not ask other locals; it's hard to get objective answers here.The next day we started the Ocotepeque-Santa Rosa stage. The man at the gas station was right. Brutal mountains with cloud crowns started
God Created Nature Garbage-Free (First Steps in Honduras)
by FERENC IVANICSOn the last mile in Guatemala we had to make a choice: many miles in El Salvador and a few in Honduras, or many miles in Honduras and none in El Salvaror. We took the second choice. We found out looking at the online maps that Honduras has many high mountains and we will zig-zag around them. We changed our quetzals to Honduran lempiras (there's no official change rate at the border, and if you are a "tourist" then, you know), and we headed for Ocotepeque. While walking mildly uphill we discovered something.There's no such thing in Honduras as waste-management or waste-transport
Rotary International
Those who've been following the blog for a while already know what's the boys' approach to money worries. They drifted to the edge of distress various times in the past, and on a few occasions they almost gave up.It's been like that in the past and it seem that it's going to be like that in the future as well. So far they've managed to go on, but not without frustration and pain. At this very moment they are trying to raise money to be able to cross the Darién Gap, but sometimes they do receive great and vital help as well. This is a story from April, some five months ago. With this donation they