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🌎 How We Travel with Phanter Wallet and Inex Card: Financial Freedom on Every Trip

neodenochemind@gmail.com September 2, 2025September 2, 2025

Traveling through Latin America taught us that managing money can be a real headache. Between bank restrictions, hidden ATM fees, slow transfers, and unfavorable exchange rates, sometimes it felt like the trip was costing more than planned. That’s where Phanter Wallet completely changed the game.

Phanter Wallet and Inex Card for travel Using Inex Card for digital nomads

As travelers, traders, and digital nomads, we need solutions that allow us to move with freedom and security. Phanter Wallet gave us exactly that: a borderless crypto wallet that lets us send, receive, and manage cryptocurrencies without relying on traditional banks, with seamless integration with the Inex Virtual Mastercard.

💼 What is Phanter Wallet?

Phanter Wallet is a non-custodial crypto wallet, which means you are the only one in control of your funds. It doesn’t require KYC to start using it, and its interface makes sending, receiving, and managing crypto simple and fast.

It integrates directly with the Inex Virtual Card, allowing us to use our cryptocurrencies as real money anywhere in the world. Plus, we can top up the card directly from the wallet, eliminating the need for banks, slow transfers, or expensive currency conversions.

With Phanter Wallet, our travel experience changed radically: we can pay for Airbnb, cafés, tours, apps, and even online purchases like Meta Ads or website hosting, all with clear fees and high limits, worry-free.

💳 Inex Virtual Card: Your Borderless Crypto Mastercard

The Inex Virtual Card is a Mastercard linked to Phanter Wallet, accepted in over 176 countries and 50 million merchants. It works for both physical and online payments, and is compatible with Apple Pay and Google Pay.

Key Benefits:

Payments online and in-store anywhere in the world.
High limits: up to $100,000 per month.
No KYC: ideal for digital nomads seeking freedom.
Clear fees: $50 USDT issuance, $20 initial deposit, 2.5% reload, $0.25 per transaction.
No monthly maintenance fees.

For travelers like us, this card means real financial freedom: we can pay for Airbnb, Spotify, tickets, tours, and more without going through Western Union or banks with outrageous fees. Plus, the backing of Sunrate Bank and Mastercard gives us peace of mind that our funds are globally secure.

🌟 Advantages for Travelers and Digital Nomads

With Phanter Wallet and the Inex Card:

Real financial freedom: pay directly with crypto anywhere in the world.
Fast, secure transfers: no dependence on banks or middlemen.
Total flexibility: we use USDT and BNB for daily expenses and BTC and ETH as a store of value while exploring new destinations.

Our personal experience confirms that it’s possible to travel without worrying about hidden fees or poor exchange rates. Even large purchases, like Lorena’s ukulele, tours, or digital project payments, are much easier with this card.

🚀 How to Get Started

Download Phanter Wallet from the App Store or Google Play.
Create your account: enable 2FA and verify your email.
Issue your Inex Virtual Card and start using it for global payments.

If you want to travel without financial borders, try Phanter Wallet and discover how your cryptocurrencies can turn into real freedom.

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🧭 San José del Guaviare: Gateway to the Colombian Jungle

Lorena Leon November 27, 2024September 2, 2025

San José del Guaviare is a hidden treasure in southeastern Colombia, just 400 km from Bogotá. This vibrant town is the final stop before the road disappears into the Amazon, marking a dramatic transition from the open savannas of the Llanos Orientales to dense rainforest.

San José del Guaviare It’s not just a gateway to the jungle—San José is a land of myths, ancient stories, and ancestral power.

✈️ How to Get to San José del Guaviare

To get to San José del Guaviare from Bogotá, you have two main options:

By bus:

Duration: Approximately 8 hours
Departure: From Salitre Terminal in Bogotá
Route: Southeast through the Eastern Plains (Llanos Orientales)
Cost: Around COP $106,000 (TITANIO service – La Macarena bus company)
Pro tip: Perfect for enjoying scenic landscapes along the way.

🛫 By plane:

Duration: About 1 hour
Airlines: Satena and Clic Air
Departure: El Dorado International Airport (Bogotá)
Note: Most flights arrive after noon
✏️ Recommendation: If you’re on a tight schedule, fly. If you’re up for an affordable, scenic adventure, take the bus.

If you prefer a more affordable and scenic trip, the bus is a great option. However, if you’re short on time, the flight is much faster. Both options have their charm!

🌿 Beyond the Gateway: A Land of Legends and Diversity

San José del Guaviare is strategically located between Serranía de la Lindosa, Chiribiquete National Park, and Sierra de la Macarena. The region is home to ancient rock art, petroglyphs, and sacred landscapes, with stories that span thousands of years..

🏘️ A Town Full of Life and Contrast

San José is larger and more vibrant than expected. You’ll find restaurants, local shops, and friendly people—at a much lower cost of living than Bogotá.

Despite a few military checkpoints, the area feels safe and welcoming. Walking through town, it’s common to see Indigenous communities, including the Nukak and Nükak Makú. Some maintain nomadic lifestyles, while others are more integrated into daily town life. Most communicate in basic Spanish and are known for their distinctive hair color and modern clothing styles.

🧵 From Coca to Community

Years ago, San José del Guaviare was closely tied to coca cultivation, particularly during times of armed conflict. The process, known as coca scraping, was physically demanding and often harmful.

Since the peace accords (around 2016–2017), the region has shifted away from coca as an economic driver. Though isolated crops remain, community tourism has become the new heart of the economy.

Over time, and thanks to the peace agreements from about 6-7 years ago, this activity stopped being predominant. Nowadays, while there are some isolated coca crops, coca is no longer the region’s primary driver. In rural areas of Colombia, like the Sierra Nevada or the Amazon, coca leaves still hold cultural and medicinal value. They are used in ancestral rituals and as a dietary supplement for their properties in oxygenating the blood, improving concentration, and providing energy. However, in Guaviare, its significance seems to have faded along with the plantations.

🌎 Community Tourism: Real Encounters, Real Stories

Local families are working together to offer immersive and authentic experiences:
🥘 Traditional meals,
🌿 Jungle hikes,
🎙️ Storytelling guided by locals steeped in knowledge and myth.

Each experience brings travelers closer to the land, the culture, and the jungle’s spirit.

In upcoming blogs, I’ll share more about the secrets of Guaviare, its legends, and the must-see places. Keep traveling with me on Pegando la Vuelta!

Additionally, if you’re looking for an immersive experience in Guaviare, you can live it with us. Contact us, and we’ll send you all the detailed information!

🌟 Why Visit San José del Guaviare?

If you’re seeking an off-the-beaten-path destination full of culture, nature, and human resilience, San José del Guaviare will surprise you.

In future blogs, we’ll dive into Guaviare’s secrets—its petroglyphs, magical spots, and local legends.

📩 Ready for an Immersive Adventure?

You can experience Guaviare with us!
We organize small-group trips that connect you to local communities, ancestral wisdom, and breathtaking landscapes.

🔗 Contact us and we’ll send you the full trip details:
👉 viajespegandolavuelta.com/trip/ancestral-guaviare

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How to Face Fear and Take the Leap into the Unknown

Lorena Leon November 7, 2024September 2, 2025

Something has become clear to me after so many years on this journey: fear never goes away. No matter how many times you make the decision to jump into the unknown, there’s always that little voice in your head asking, ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ But the key is to move forward despite it, to take that first step and trust that everything will be okay. Throughout my life, I’ve had to take that step more than once, facing fear in different ways.

The first time I took the leap was at 21 when I decided to travel alone to Mexico. Back then, people around me were saying I was too young to do something like that, barely an adult, haha. And let’s not even get started on everything the media was saying about the country. But something in me knew I needed to break free from the routine.

Let me give you a bit of context. I wanted to start my career in advertising; I was full of energy, but the job offers in Colombia didn’t convince me. Most offered low pay and those unnegotiable conditions. So, after going back and forth on it a thousand times, I decided to look for opportunities abroad. I wanted a life experience, and in my mind, that meant going somewhere new.

So, after a lot of searching, I found an opportunity to do volunteer work as an audiovisual creator with an organization working with indigenous communities.

And that’s how it all began. Without overthinking, I followed my intuition and said, ‘I’m going for it.’ Of course, I knew I was facing a lot of challenges. Basically, I was going to survive in another country on a super tight budget, haha, without my parents, friends, or that support network. But honestly, I felt that was exactly what I needed.

The trip to Mexico taught me that, while fear is powerful, the satisfaction of overcoming it is even stronger. But that wasn’t the only time I stood on the edge of the unknown. Years later, I had to make the decision to return to Colombia, this time with a loved one I’d found in Mexico—Emiliano, my current partner.

Coming back wasn’t easy; it meant starting over, adapting, and finding a path in a country that had changed for me.

And as if that weren’t enough, after some time in Colombia, we decided to take another leap: leave everything behind and travel through Latin America without a dime. We threw ourselves into the adventure by selling drawings and hitchhiking along the roads of a continent that, although familiar, held its own challenges. Each border we crossed was a reminder that uncertainty could be our best ally.

After traveling the continent twice, we returned to Colombia and lived in a hostel for six months. But I realized I no longer wanted that lifestyle, so we hit the road again and ended up living in Quindío. There, I found a space of peace but also a sense of complacency. Everything was perfect—the waterfall 200 meters away, the forest nearby, a seemingly ideal life. And it was precisely that feeling of comfort that made me realize it was time for another leap, this time to Bogotá. I decided to move to continue my university studies and keep growing professionally. Leaving the tranquility of Quindío for the chaos of the city was yet another reminder that fear is always present, but it always brings new opportunities.

Today, here in Bogotá and facing new decisions, I keep recalling each leap into the unknown. Each one was a different journey, full of fear and doubt, but also of growth and the certainty that energy always flows when there’s movement.

Because, at the end of the day, jumping into the unknown doesn’t mean the fear disappears. It means learning to embrace it and trusting that there’s always something waiting beyond, ready to surprise you.