Päivi and Santeri‘s Travel Blog

Visiting Placencia and San Ignacio in Belize.

Hospitality exchange experiences around Mexico in San Carlos (Guaymas), Guadalajara, Mexico City and Cancun.

Join us celebrating our ninth wedding anniversary accompanied by a Chihuahua and her tiny puppy on our everlasting honeymoon trip.

A video clip of pelicans fishing.

How to travel across the US from coast to coast and north to south without a car?

Syria is soon going to be the next Iraq unless we take an action and stop following the media and supporting war criminals.

We received our copies of the book Free as a Global Nomad.

Are backpacks designed to break, like for example Savotta 123? How to find more durable backpacks?

New York city hike from Brooklyn to Manhattan and Central Park. Watch our photo tour.

Doing work exchange for a hostel called National Park Backpackers in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica.

Twitter followers and Facebook likes are for sale as marketing tools for travel websites and bloggers.

Link to this Top 100 Travel Websites list and your website will always appear automatically on top of the list. Top lists do not necessarily have to be ridiculous and serious, and making them tedious and time consuming. Here is the proof!

Read this before trusting any Tripadvisor reviews. They practice censorship making them useful for businesses but worthless for consumers.

Travel bloggers are selling dreams paid by various tourism bodies. Promoting luxury, fast travel, and the most faraway locations messes up local economies and generates more waste and pollution.

This is the last and the most complete travel check-list you will ever need.

After Colombia and Panama inexpensive Nicaragua was great. Food and accommodation are affordable and the country is not as touristy as the neighbouring Costa Rica. People are friendly and they do not expect tips for example for giving you directions.

What do Global Nomads really do according to friends, family, the society, others, by themselves, and in reality?

Are we living in a fool´s paradise regarding progress, growth, solar panels, plastic bags, energy saving bulbs, wars?

Marimba Master Juan from Masatepe, Nicaragua playing Minga Rosa Pineda.

Nomads episode 9: Santeri is pondering his past life, Nokia, and the meaning of life. This video was produced for the Finnish TV.

Two stops in Costa Rica: Manuel Antonio national park and the capital city San José.

Here is our complete and detailed travel plan for 2013-2014. Click a time slot to invite us over.

How to cross the Darién Gap from Colombia to Panama? How much does it cost? What options do you have?

On our way to Colombia by bus, we stopped a few times, and hiked across the border from Colombia to Panama in the Darién Gap.

Crossing the whole Venezuela by bus through Guiria, Puerto la Cruz, and Maracaibo all the way to Colombia.

We arrived in Port of Spain at the end of the carnival. City was suffering from hangover; full of rubbish and sulky people.

Are you suffering from excess luggage? Jamaica is a perfect solution for that.