USA | Sunday, 24 Aug 2008 | Views [189]
Last stop on an epic journey and as much luxury as we have enjoyed on our whole trip. We dined in style, drank in hip bars, saw the sites and accidentally walked into Macy's during the horror show that is the August annual one day sale. Commitment ... Read more >
Tags: usa, united states of america, america, new york, brooklyn, smith street, macys, empire state building, flat iron building, battery park
USA | Sunday, 24 Aug 2008 | Views [846]
Kat on a hot tin roomette - riding the Atlantic coast Amtrak in style. A roomette for two on Amtrak for the 31 hour train journey from Miami to New York is about as close to flying first close we are likely to experience any time soon and oh what ... Read more >
Tags: amtrak, american raliway, train journey, rail, train, usa, united states of america, miami, new york, america
USA | Sunday, 24 Aug 2008 | Views [175]
Happily tucked into a seat on Lan Airways, blanket on lap and glass of red in hand, I turned to Steve and said how lovely - for the first time in almost a year we will be able to just talk to people, in English. The first person we met in the airport ... Read more >
Tags: usa, united states of america, america, miami, latin america, south beach, bars, restaurants, service, hotels
COLOMBIA | Sunday, 24 Aug 2008 | Views [442]
Owing to oversight on booking coach ticket, we missed out on a decent view of Bogota leaving ourselves little more than one day in which to race around the city. To be fair though, we didn't exactly race around it, selecting instead to visit a ... Read more >
Tags: colombia, bogota, south america, latin america, bortoli, art museum, bar, restaurant, falafel, pizza.
COLOMBIA | Sunday, 24 Aug 2008 | Views [503]
With its horseshoe bay framed by rolling hills, little fishing boats bobbing in the clear water under a warm Caribbean sun, Taganga, we discovered, is best viewed from a hammock, glass of wine in hand. True, there is not much to do here beyond diving, ... Read more >
Tags: colombia, latin america, south america, taganga, caribbean, santa marta, diving, fishing, hammock
COLOMBIA | Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Views [538]
Reared on a diet of Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone, I had been looking forward to the machete swinging jungle trek vision of the Ciudad Perdida for months and happily it lived up to expectations. We forged waist high rivers with backpacks on ... Read more >
Tags: colombia, santa marta, ciudad perdida, lost city, latin america, south america, trek, trekking, turcol, waterfall
COLOMBIA | Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Views [299]
Santa Marta didn't look too promising at first, especially after we took a wrong turn out of the bus station and ended up walking for hours in the back breaking 30 degree heat late at night. But illness and changing travel plans conspired to keep us ... Read more >
Tags: colombia, santa marta, latin america, south america, bars, hostels, sea, beach, ocean, caribbean
COLOMBIA | Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 | Views [244]
We spent three days on a bus traveling across the length of the country to reach the sunny Caribbean coast and arrived in Cartagena happy and hot. We ditched plans to stay in the back packer ghetto at Gethsemane shortly after I accidentally wandered ... Read more >
Tags: colombia, cartagena, caribbean, gethsemane, latin america, south america, city walls, photography, photograph, salsa
COLOMBIA | Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 | Views [322]
And so to Colombia I was really excited going for the border at Colombia. It is pretty much the last country we will visit on the trip and every kept on telling us about the freindly people, beatiful towns, great beaches, Caribbean breezes. Sounds ... Read more >
Tags: colombia, pasto, popayan, latin america, south america, border crossing, bar, bosa nova, salsa, music
ECUADOR | Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 | Views [233]
Lovely white washed historic Quito is easily one of the loveliest colonial cities in Latin America, but a total ghost town at night as residents hurry home to bolt their doors against the violent reputation of the city. It is a real shame as it could ... Read more >
Tags: quito, ecuador, equador, latin america, south america, colonial architecture, churches, frescos.
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