Worldwalk Peacetour

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...

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

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 ...

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

by FERENC IVANICS Instead 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...

by FERENC IVANICS We 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...

by FERENC IVANICS By 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)....

by FERENC IVANICS On 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...

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

As our twitter followers already know, István and Ferenc have Arrived in Panama. The delayed blog posts will catch up with them (on the blog they are still in Guatemala), since they will spend a few days in Panama City.They asked us to break the flow of blog posts with an announcement, here it goes.by FERENC IVANICSWe have reached Panama City in Panama. We cannot keep going, the Darién gap blocks our way. We cannot take on tha Darién walking, it's unpredictable, it's extremely dangerous and we don't have the kind of expeditionary equipment needed either.Right now we're analyzing two possible crossing

by FERENC IVANICS Tamarind is a really fancy and popular fruit. Kind of. Since Mexico it's been on the shelves of grocery stores as a soft drink. The tree is resistant and grows well in full sun. The fruit or pod is a legume, some five inches long and it has a hard, brown shell. The fruit has a fleshy, juicy pulp. Its flavor is, how to put it, unique. It has a quite strong aroma, tastes acidic and mildly sweet. It's so acid that it's impossible to eat more than a handful at a time without...

by FERENC IVANICS We saw cocoa plantations in southern Mexico and Belize as well. But in Guatemala this strange-looking little tree is common as a garden plant. It's not the leaves that look surprising, rather its fruits. These American football shaped fruits appear on older branches and on the trunk. Well, we have to confess that so far we haven't found really tasty chocolates on the American continent. Which is sad, since we both would love it. And when you walk 20+ miles a day, you must...

by FERENC IVANICS Natural rubber is extracted from the sap of rubber trees. When we first saw a rubber tree forest, we immediately recognized it, thanks to the pictures we'd seen in story-books and on TV. But it's not the shape of the leaves... They make incisions on the bark of the trees and stick a bucket below. You cannot miss it.We picked a small piece from the sap collected in the buckets: It's thick, yellowish, and really elastic. My brother, István said that its smell reminded him the...

by FERENC IVANICS There's only one major port in Guatemala, and it's Puerto Barrios. And there's only one major road leading to this port from the inner regions of the country. Guatemala is a world leader, at least in banana production. The world's most important banana companies are all here: Chiquita, DelMonte and Dole. We're talking about millions of tons of fruits here. It all meant that we had to walk some 100 miles in extremely heavy traffic. We've seen long truck convoys. Sure, they...

by FERENC IVANICS From Punta Gorda, Belize to Livingston, Guatemala we traveled by a motorboat. First we though that 50 Belize dollars for the crossing (which takes less than half an hour) is a bit costly, but when we realized that the trip lacks any comfort we felt that it was indeed, expensive. The vessel was a traditional fisher boat converted to a passenger boat. The seats were rock hard, and it wouldn't have been a problem if the water were still. But the boat practically rallied through...