Nightview of the crater of the volcano: Masaya, south of Managua.
And my travelpartner Marc in his travel outfit.
Inside the crater of Cerro Negro (black hill), a small volcano near Leon in Northern Nicaragua.
A plane load if Nicaraguans arrives at Managua airport after a free eye operation in Venezuela.
Grafitti of Mara Salvatruche, one of the main youthgangs of El Salvador. This wall is in the neighbourhood Mejicanos, one of the most dangerous places in San salvador where the Mara's (youthgangs) rule.
The monument for the massacre in El Mozote. 25 years ago the Salvadorean army murdered more than 1000 civilians here in this remote mountaintop village in Morazan province in northern El Salvador.
Mejicanos is known as one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods of San Salvador. The streets are a battleground of rivalling streetgangs called Maras.
War veterans protested today for better pensions and medical care. They've been doing this for years, always on the same day, and are known for their original protests. Interesting fact: former army and guerrilla veterans protest together.
Genearal Blandon, was head of the armed forces during a large part of the war.
The hospital for the poor, in central San Salvador, is completely made of steel. Great idea in the tropics!
Since my hotel in San Salvador blocked many websites including all weblogs, I couldn't update my blog for a while. I'll try to catch up now.
Our first full day in San Salvador is packed with stories of the miserable state the country is in. It seems that Litino Americans derive a weird pleasure from claiming their capital is the most dangerous city in the world. So far I visited three most dangerous ones (Caracas, Lima and now San Salvador) and one former most dangerous city (Medellin). 
The continuation of a photo a day! I'm heading back to Latin America. This time for a visit to El Salvador and Nicaragua. But today the view from my motel in Houston, Texas where we spent the night after our KLM flight was delayed for five hours.
Recreating on the Boyaca, the highway that is closed every sunday morning for trafic.
A view of Caracas from Galipan, a small village on top of the Avila, the mountain that seperates Caracas from the sea.
Liberationday in Venezuela was celebrated with a very short airshow by the national Airforce stunting with jetfighters above the city.
Back in Caracas with a bag of clothes in desperate need of a washingmachine.
Vania Masias Málaga, a Peruvian dancer gave up her carreer at Cirque de Soleil to train Peruvian streetkids dance and acrobatics.
Back in Peru, I had my first afternoon off in 3 weeks, so I decided to do a touristy thing and visit the floating islands in Lake Titicaca, near Puno in southern Peru. These people live on islands made of bundles of reeds. It feels quite strange walking on them for they do move quite a bit.
A few days ago I was offered piraña for lunch already. Here they prefer monkey... The family in the background is waiting droolingly until it's done. They say it tastes very good. I let them enjoy it for themselves.
All the collected Brazilnuts go to a collective processingplant where they are opened manually, one by one, before they are packed to be transported to Europe.
with a beautiful Castañatree at sunrise,
and a Piraña for lunch.
The Castaña is the tree that produces the Brazilnut. The highest tree, here in the jungle, cannot be grown in a plantation, so all the nuts are collected from wild trees.
Back in La Paz, these women are walking along the fringe of the city at an altitude of 4000m.
The former home of, current president of Bolivia, Evo Morales in the central coca region in his country. In the right front corner the leaves of a coca bush.
Employee of the central coca market of Sinahota in the central coca region. He sure knows how to enjoy his own product. He doesn't need it to counter the effects of altitude sickness for this town is located in the tropical lowlands of eastern Bolivia at an altitude of 300m.
A blind girl running along a line to guide her across a sportsfield. She joined a sportsprogramme for disabled children in Cochabamba, the second city of Bolivia.
Luckily, most roads in Bolivia are so bad that they don't have a lot of problems with speeding taxis. You can't really blame the drivers if they can't read their speedometers! Many taxis in this country are imported second hand from Japan where they drive on the other side of the road.
Also at 4000m. altitude, in Oruro in Central Bolivia, the Mundial Soccer raises the temperatures. This woman and her son sell the stickers of soccrplayers that are a popualar collector's item all over the world.
Dried lama foetuses on a market in La Paz. These form an essential part in all kinds of rituals in Bolivian culture. For instance, you can't build a house without burying some beneath the foundations.
Areal view of the Altiplano in southern Peru, just before we touched down in Juliaca, near Lake Titicaca. The high plains are at an altitude of app. 3600 m. so we had some adjusting to do. The amount of oxygen was defenitely low. We continued to La Paz in Bolivia today.
My first impression of Peru. The view from my dingy, but expensive hotelroom near the airport in Lima. Just got here and tomorrow we're flying to the south of the country.
HiTech Colombia! Internet banking is not yet widely accepted in Colombia, but they've been having DriveThru Banking for years!. Just pay your bills from behind the wheel! A concept totally unknown in Holland!
