120 days alone in South America, not Europe
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Book Introduction
I have not written a single line in this book that I have not experienced.
This is my principle for writing travelogues.
I often hear people say that traveling alone for a long time can be lonely and difficult.
If I say otherwise, I'm lying.
When I go trekking, I honestly feel envious of couples where the man carries the heavy load.
But there is much to be said about loneliness.
There were many lonely times during my trip to the big city.
I even wrote, 'I want to go home' in the guestbook of the house where Gaudí lived in Barcelona, Spain, where I went on my first independent trip.
It may be that big cities are boring because they all have similar aspects, and people are often wary of each other, so it may have been even lonelier.
But South America is one continent.
Traveling through South America meant crossing countless borders, each city had its own unique character, and I was constantly on edge. Every day I encountered new situations, so I never felt bored or lonely.
There has never been a moment when I felt more alive than at this moment.
And with each achievement, joy overflowed.
- From 'PROLOGUE'
This is my principle for writing travelogues.
I often hear people say that traveling alone for a long time can be lonely and difficult.
If I say otherwise, I'm lying.
When I go trekking, I honestly feel envious of couples where the man carries the heavy load.
But there is much to be said about loneliness.
There were many lonely times during my trip to the big city.
I even wrote, 'I want to go home' in the guestbook of the house where Gaudí lived in Barcelona, Spain, where I went on my first independent trip.
It may be that big cities are boring because they all have similar aspects, and people are often wary of each other, so it may have been even lonelier.
But South America is one continent.
Traveling through South America meant crossing countless borders, each city had its own unique character, and I was constantly on edge. Every day I encountered new situations, so I never felt bored or lonely.
There has never been a moment when I felt more alive than at this moment.
And with each achievement, joy overflowed.
- From 'PROLOGUE'
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PROLOGUE
Chapter 1: Complete Conquest of Argentine Patagonia I
My Map of South America - Reasons to Travel
I got caught, I got caught - San Martin De Los Andes
Tranquila, have peace of mind - Bariloche
Gracias, Muchas Gracias - Garden of the Gods by Fitz Roy
Meeting a nobleman at Cerro Torre - Another use for sticks
Chapter 2: Complete Conquest of Argentina's Patagonia II
A Bowl of Yukgaejang - El Calafate, Glaciar Perito Moreno
The name alone makes my heart pump - Ushuaia, Beagle Channel
Chapter 3: Patagonia, Chile, the King of South America
Selfie with Penguins - Strait of Magellan and Punta Arenas
Chile and the Pumas - Torres del Paine and Puerto Natales
I'm a weather fairy! - Day 1 of the 3-night, 4-day W Trek: Hostel Torre Central
I should have said I was vegetarian - W Trek Day 2: Cuernos Hut, Day 3: Frances Hut
Transformed into a Trekking Machine - Day 4 of the W Trek: Mirador Gray Glacier
Chapter 4: What Happened in the Atacama
Boring but heavenly and peaceful - San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
I'm not leaving because I want to leave - San Pedro de Atacama
Chapter 5: Accidents are a daily occurrence in Bolivia, but the people are kind.
Was I the only one who didn't know? Over 5,000 meters? - A 2-night, 3-day Uyuni tour and altitude sickness
Eat, sing, and dance in the Uyuni salt flats, as calm as a lake.
Pocho and Cynthia, the dogs of Uyuni Village
Reply 1988 - The Boy Miners of Potosi and the Japanese
Rich Cosplay - White City Sucre
Boys of La Paz - Cable Car and Sube Transportation Card
Tears of Copacabana - Lake Titicaca and Carlos
Chapter 6: Easter Island Entry
Folk Villages of Lake Titicaca - Uros Islands, Peru
Back to Chile - Milk and Depression, Arica
A tearful Easter Island visit - Is Easter Island really like this?
Dogs of Easter Island - Am I that easy?
Easter Islanders - Then dress nicely.
Chapter 7: People, People - Chile
First Acquaintance Tour - Santiago de Chile
Murals and Cats, the City of Poet Neruda - Valparaiso
Chapter 8: Traveling Peru by Bus - Lima, Ica, Arequipa, Cusco
Second Acquaintance Tour - Is this South America? Lima
#1 Crazy City - Ica, Huacachina Desert
The Strangest Tour in South America - Why Spread Your Arms When You're Just Legs? Nasca Tour
13 hours by night bus - Arequipa and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa
Condor and Father - Colca Valley
Chapter 9: Classic Inca Trail 4 Days: Camino Inka-Inka Trail and Machu Picchu, Vinicunca (Rainbow Mountain)
A Cusco person suffering from altitude sickness
Inca Trail Classic - Even the Inca Trail has counterfeits.
Porter walked all night to buy it? - He has to buy Porter and come back?
I have to return alive, through Machu Picchu, to the final campsite.
Machu Picchu three times
The unexpected delights of the towns of Aguas Calientes and Moray and Chinchero
Altitude Sickness and Hip Injuries - Vinicunca
Chapter 10: Money Flows in - Peruvian Amazon, Puerto Maldonado
Am I a Hallyu Star? - Canopy Inkaterra
Meditar in Zazza - Lago Sandoval and Piranha Fishing
Chapter 11: Isla Galápagos and Quito, Ecuador
Birds Go to Peru to Die - The Second Lima
Galapagos Islands - Easier than Easter Island
The Old Man and the Sea - Isla de San Cristóbal
I'm also going to Isla Isabela
If you want to die, go to Isabela Island.
Unexpected Beauty - A Courageous Journey to Quito, Ecuador
Ecuador, a country where leaving the country is more difficult than entering.
Chapter 12: Colombia Muy Bien (The Best) Ⅰ - Colombia, the Best Travel Destination
Salt Cathedral (Catedral de Sal) - Novelist Gabriel Graci Maquez and the village of Zipaquira
Barrio El Paraio, a slum in Bogotá, and John - the first Korean?
The Korean Wave in Bogota - The Courage to Die a Thousand Times Again
Unbelievable even after seeing it - Villa de Leyva
Chapter 13 Colombia Muy bien (like) Ⅱ - Persistence toward the novelist Gabriel Graci Maquez
El Peno de Guatape and Medellin
Where is the Friend's House? - Aracataca
Marquez and author Han Kang - Cartagena
Chapter 14: Pink Dolphins and the Amazon - Brazil I
Pink Dolphin and Dennis - Manaus, Brazil
Ferry trip from Manaus to Santare
Caue, a 22-year-old man I met on the ferry
There's no better place to build courage than here - Belem's dawn açaí wholesale market.
Chapter 15: Samba Class and Ipanema Beach - Brazil II
Samba and Capoeira Classes - Salvador, Brazil's Old Capital
The Truth About Rio de Janeiro
One of the three most beautiful ports? It's a world away from Sydney - Rio de Janeiro
I decided to blow my fortune - Belmond das Cataratas, Iguazu, Brazil
Chapter 16: Certification Shot and Tango Milonga - Argentina, Uruguay
Phone theft and authentication shots - Iguazu, Argentina
He aged a fine wine - Che Guevara Museum, Alta Gracia
Dove's Dream - Uruguay Montevideo
Tango in Buenos Aires - Only Tango
Tango in Buenos Aires - Tango Bar Rediscovered, Bar Sur
EPILOGUE
Chapter 1: Complete Conquest of Argentine Patagonia I
My Map of South America - Reasons to Travel
I got caught, I got caught - San Martin De Los Andes
Tranquila, have peace of mind - Bariloche
Gracias, Muchas Gracias - Garden of the Gods by Fitz Roy
Meeting a nobleman at Cerro Torre - Another use for sticks
Chapter 2: Complete Conquest of Argentina's Patagonia II
A Bowl of Yukgaejang - El Calafate, Glaciar Perito Moreno
The name alone makes my heart pump - Ushuaia, Beagle Channel
Chapter 3: Patagonia, Chile, the King of South America
Selfie with Penguins - Strait of Magellan and Punta Arenas
Chile and the Pumas - Torres del Paine and Puerto Natales
I'm a weather fairy! - Day 1 of the 3-night, 4-day W Trek: Hostel Torre Central
I should have said I was vegetarian - W Trek Day 2: Cuernos Hut, Day 3: Frances Hut
Transformed into a Trekking Machine - Day 4 of the W Trek: Mirador Gray Glacier
Chapter 4: What Happened in the Atacama
Boring but heavenly and peaceful - San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
I'm not leaving because I want to leave - San Pedro de Atacama
Chapter 5: Accidents are a daily occurrence in Bolivia, but the people are kind.
Was I the only one who didn't know? Over 5,000 meters? - A 2-night, 3-day Uyuni tour and altitude sickness
Eat, sing, and dance in the Uyuni salt flats, as calm as a lake.
Pocho and Cynthia, the dogs of Uyuni Village
Reply 1988 - The Boy Miners of Potosi and the Japanese
Rich Cosplay - White City Sucre
Boys of La Paz - Cable Car and Sube Transportation Card
Tears of Copacabana - Lake Titicaca and Carlos
Chapter 6: Easter Island Entry
Folk Villages of Lake Titicaca - Uros Islands, Peru
Back to Chile - Milk and Depression, Arica
A tearful Easter Island visit - Is Easter Island really like this?
Dogs of Easter Island - Am I that easy?
Easter Islanders - Then dress nicely.
Chapter 7: People, People - Chile
First Acquaintance Tour - Santiago de Chile
Murals and Cats, the City of Poet Neruda - Valparaiso
Chapter 8: Traveling Peru by Bus - Lima, Ica, Arequipa, Cusco
Second Acquaintance Tour - Is this South America? Lima
#1 Crazy City - Ica, Huacachina Desert
The Strangest Tour in South America - Why Spread Your Arms When You're Just Legs? Nasca Tour
13 hours by night bus - Arequipa and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa
Condor and Father - Colca Valley
Chapter 9: Classic Inca Trail 4 Days: Camino Inka-Inka Trail and Machu Picchu, Vinicunca (Rainbow Mountain)
A Cusco person suffering from altitude sickness
Inca Trail Classic - Even the Inca Trail has counterfeits.
Porter walked all night to buy it? - He has to buy Porter and come back?
I have to return alive, through Machu Picchu, to the final campsite.
Machu Picchu three times
The unexpected delights of the towns of Aguas Calientes and Moray and Chinchero
Altitude Sickness and Hip Injuries - Vinicunca
Chapter 10: Money Flows in - Peruvian Amazon, Puerto Maldonado
Am I a Hallyu Star? - Canopy Inkaterra
Meditar in Zazza - Lago Sandoval and Piranha Fishing
Chapter 11: Isla Galápagos and Quito, Ecuador
Birds Go to Peru to Die - The Second Lima
Galapagos Islands - Easier than Easter Island
The Old Man and the Sea - Isla de San Cristóbal
I'm also going to Isla Isabela
If you want to die, go to Isabela Island.
Unexpected Beauty - A Courageous Journey to Quito, Ecuador
Ecuador, a country where leaving the country is more difficult than entering.
Chapter 12: Colombia Muy Bien (The Best) Ⅰ - Colombia, the Best Travel Destination
Salt Cathedral (Catedral de Sal) - Novelist Gabriel Graci Maquez and the village of Zipaquira
Barrio El Paraio, a slum in Bogotá, and John - the first Korean?
The Korean Wave in Bogota - The Courage to Die a Thousand Times Again
Unbelievable even after seeing it - Villa de Leyva
Chapter 13 Colombia Muy bien (like) Ⅱ - Persistence toward the novelist Gabriel Graci Maquez
El Peno de Guatape and Medellin
Where is the Friend's House? - Aracataca
Marquez and author Han Kang - Cartagena
Chapter 14: Pink Dolphins and the Amazon - Brazil I
Pink Dolphin and Dennis - Manaus, Brazil
Ferry trip from Manaus to Santare
Caue, a 22-year-old man I met on the ferry
There's no better place to build courage than here - Belem's dawn açaí wholesale market.
Chapter 15: Samba Class and Ipanema Beach - Brazil II
Samba and Capoeira Classes - Salvador, Brazil's Old Capital
The Truth About Rio de Janeiro
One of the three most beautiful ports? It's a world away from Sydney - Rio de Janeiro
I decided to blow my fortune - Belmond das Cataratas, Iguazu, Brazil
Chapter 16: Certification Shot and Tango Milonga - Argentina, Uruguay
Phone theft and authentication shots - Iguazu, Argentina
He aged a fine wine - Che Guevara Museum, Alta Gracia
Dove's Dream - Uruguay Montevideo
Tango in Buenos Aires - Only Tango
Tango in Buenos Aires - Tango Bar Rediscovered, Bar Sur
EPILOGUE
Publisher's Review
“Why did you decide to travel to South America?”
Latin American literature has long been a calling for the author.
I learned about the passion and transience of love from Pablo Neruda's "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair," and I saw human desire and chaos in Vargas Llosa's "The City and Dogs" and "I Married Aunt Julia."
Macondo in Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude breaks down the barrier between reality and fantasy.
Until you experience it for yourself, South America will remain a fantasy.
A small spark of wanting to see it for myself eventually became a reality.
The author spent six months self-studying Spanish in preparation for the long journey to an unfamiliar continent.
Despite numerous concerns such as “Isn’t it dangerous?”, she carried a floral bag and headed to South America alone, repeating to herself, “I’m the one who’s going on the trip.”
The fantasy in the book came to life as a real landscape, and that landscape was reborn as a new sentence.
Following the journey of this curious and people-loving author, you will feel as if you are traveling through every corner of South America together.
The author endured altitude sickness during a two-night, three-day tour to the Uyuni Salt Flats and the breathtaking climb during the three-night, four-day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, clearing out unnecessary things and filling up with his true self.
Choosing sunlight over makeup and flexibility over fear, she finally gains an inner strength called 'Kkang'.
For the author, South America was not just a travel destination, but a training center for life.
"120 Days Alone in South America, Not Europe" is a record of how literature leads one person to the continent and how travel rewrites one's world.
In the journey where the world of the characters in the book becomes reality, and that reality returns to literature, the author is finally reborn as a new person.
Latin American literature has long been a calling for the author.
I learned about the passion and transience of love from Pablo Neruda's "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair," and I saw human desire and chaos in Vargas Llosa's "The City and Dogs" and "I Married Aunt Julia."
Macondo in Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude breaks down the barrier between reality and fantasy.
Until you experience it for yourself, South America will remain a fantasy.
A small spark of wanting to see it for myself eventually became a reality.
The author spent six months self-studying Spanish in preparation for the long journey to an unfamiliar continent.
Despite numerous concerns such as “Isn’t it dangerous?”, she carried a floral bag and headed to South America alone, repeating to herself, “I’m the one who’s going on the trip.”
The fantasy in the book came to life as a real landscape, and that landscape was reborn as a new sentence.
Following the journey of this curious and people-loving author, you will feel as if you are traveling through every corner of South America together.
The author endured altitude sickness during a two-night, three-day tour to the Uyuni Salt Flats and the breathtaking climb during the three-night, four-day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, clearing out unnecessary things and filling up with his true self.
Choosing sunlight over makeup and flexibility over fear, she finally gains an inner strength called 'Kkang'.
For the author, South America was not just a travel destination, but a training center for life.
"120 Days Alone in South America, Not Europe" is a record of how literature leads one person to the continent and how travel rewrites one's world.
In the journey where the world of the characters in the book becomes reality, and that reality returns to literature, the author is finally reborn as a new person.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: November 11, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 580 pages | 173*220*35mm
- ISBN13: 9791139228984
- ISBN10: 1139228986
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