Well, this is it! On June 26, exactly six months after I left Switzerland I boarded the plane back to Switzerland.

It was a great and unforgetable trip and time of my life. I was able to visit the following countries as a part of this trip (no of weeks in brackets):
- Brasil (5)
- Uruguay (1)
- Argentina (3)
- Chile (2)
- Costa Rica (2)
- Nicaragua (2)
- Honduras (1)
- Guatemala (2)
- Ecuador (3)
- Mexico (4)
- Panama (1)
And of course it was never enough time at all to see everything but I think I got a good taste of all the different countries I was able to visit. And to most of them I would really like to return in the future.
Of course not just because of nature and flora and fauna but also because of the people of latin america!

So to all the travellers I met on the way during my trip, I would like to say thanks for all the tips, friendship and great times we had and all the best to you in the future and hopefully on your forthcoming trips.

And to all the people back home who sent me their feedbacks and emails during the trip and to those who have been thinking about my: thank you very much indeed. It is great to back home to friends.

And to all the people of Latin America: thank you very much for the warm welcome to your beautiful corner of the world! I really enjoyed South and Central America and it is great to know that there are new friends in that part of the world as well... because I would definitely like to come back... and I will be back!

Back where it all started... back in Brasil, back in Sao Paulo



And back again to meet with my good old friend Philipp.
Yes, same name, same spelling... so this is a true Philipps picture:



And of course we spent the week watching football (when all was fine and both Switzerland and Brasil qualified for the round of the last 16), meeting friends, going out to eat well and have a drink or two ;-)
So this is Philipp with his future wife Karina and myself at the very last night in a great small bar/pub where there was great live music on Sunday night:



And this is the swiss good-bye wave with Philipp, Hansjörg (aka JJ) and myself:

In the evening of June 15 I took my last overnight bus of this trip: 10 hours by bus and 30 minutes by boat form from Panama City in the south center of the country to the beautiful island of Bocas del Toro in the north west of the country (very close to Costa Rica, on the carabeen coast.

I heard that this is a really relaxed and beautiful place which is really was; this is the little hotel/guesthouse I stay at:



And on the north coast the weather was also still a lot better



And this area is also know for beautiful beaches and great diving so I took a day trip to go diving combined with visiting on of the most beautiful beaches in the the area:





Unfortunately I don't have the diving pictures ready yet. But as a compensation here are quite nice pictures of the beach we visited:





This beach is called Red Frog Beach and very close to it you can acutally find them (even if they are only 5mm long!) - the Red Frogs:



And to be honest, there are quite a few others as well, just as beautiful:








So I spent a great 4 day on Bocas del Toro and really enjoyed this place very much.

And since my trip would end in about 10 days anyway and since I didn't feel like another night bus ride a flew back to Panama City with this plane:



Which was quite okay and the view of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago was also very beautiful:





A really nice end of my time in Central America - the next day I flew back to Sao Paulo for a last week of Brasil!

Well, my trip will find and end soon and on my way back to Sao Paulo (from where I started almost 6 months ago) I stopped in Panama.
I heard so many good things about Panama, I country I never really though of visiting before.

Panama City is quite a modern city with great restaurants, lots of shopping and with a modern look with lots of high buildings:


Lots of traffic:


Old colonial buildings next to new ones:



And they have some of the coolest public busses there:


Real works of art ;-)



And these cool dudes are actually regular cops


And then Panama is of course mainly known for the canal which really quite impressive:


When I got to Panama City the rainy season in Central America was already starting so besides of discovering the city I also spent some time indoors watching matches of the football world champion ships or went to shopping centers when it was raining really hard.