Why this site?

I´m Martijn and maybe you wonder why I made another site about travelling, there are already so many of them. True and with most of them I will never be able to compete, that´s not the intention of this site. I made this website in the first place to tell you my own personal story. I got so many questions from people who are afraid to start travelling for a long time, so they never do it... I want to tell and show you how beautiful traveling can be, but I also hope that other travellers will use the forum to leave their tips and adices, for those who have less experience. If they get confirmed by more people I will even put all this info. on a separate page.

Maybe in the future I want to start my own little travel agency, specialized in basic custom made groups-journeys, but for now I really hope this website can convince and advise other people who want to go travelling. I hope it can be as helpfull to other travellers as so many travellers I met, have been to me.

I believe that travelling to different places around the world enriches our live, it is a great experience and gives us a better perspective of our world. It also gives us new ideas, experiences and examples to compare. For example, I started my long journey in August 2003 and until now (February 2008) all together I´ve only been back in Holland for about 9 months. If people in the past asked me about Amsterdam, I would tell them that it isn´t a pretty city, I only like the city-culture. Last week however I walked through the streets of Amsterdam and had to admit that the city isn´t that ugly at all, especially if I compare it to lots of other cities I´ve seen now.The example above shows that travelling can be more than just visiting beautiful places around the world, but can also make us see the beauty that´s just around and make us appreciate more what we already have…

If you have any questions and/or you want to travel to one of places on this website, you are also welcome to send me an e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This site contains:

Homepage, the page you´re now looking at, contains; the introduction of this site, acces to all my articels and acces to the forum and photo album.

On page two you find some general tips and advises about traveling, security and altitude sickness.

The third page contains some more information about who I am and about my own book. This book is about travelling, voluntering and tour guiding in Latin America (sorry only in Dutch). It contains a selection of all my travelstories from August 2003 until January 2007.

I hope you like this site. Feel free to leave a message on the forum and have fun travelling!