Colombia
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Sunday, 24 Aug 2008 | Views [441]
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.
Sunday, 24 Aug 2008 | Views [502]
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
Friday, 8 Aug 2008 | Views [535]
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
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
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
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
