Colombia
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Saturday, 1 Oct 2011 | Views [1515]
The next
morning, Bea and I headed back on the boat to Turbo, along with our new
friend from Miami who had blindingly white teeth. Disappointingly the weather
was fine and the sea calm, so no exciting ocean adventures with the threat of
death ... Read more >
Tags: bogota, colombia, couchsurfing, long day, on the road, reflections
Tuesday, 20 Sep 2011 | Views [2898]
The end
was nigh. Bea and I's flights from Bogota to Europe loomed over us. We decided
to go out with a bang and finish our Colombian adventures in the Darien Gap.
The Darien Gap is the link between South America and Central America, and this
thin ... Read more >
Tags: capurgana, long day, monteria, potholes, salsa, sapzurro, turbo
Thursday, 15 Sep 2011 | Views [3438]
After our rain soaked experience the day before, we decided to spend the following day covering ourselves in another substance: mud! Helen and I had been eagerly anticipating the Volcan de Lodo El Totumo since reading about it back in Leticia, but ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, cartagena, colombia, hammocks, midnight swim, mud volcano, playa blanca
Thursday, 8 Sep 2011 | Views [13710] | Comments [1]
Cartagena de Indias is the bread and butter of Colombian tourism. A beautiful colonial town with still intact walled remains, it is almost de rigor for anyone visiting Colombia to include it in their itinerary. Colorful, gorgeous and a historical delight, ... Read more >
Tags: cartagena, cocaine, colombia, colonial, salsa
Saturday, 3 Sep 2011 | Views [1520]
My latest destination And so I left my Amazonian home and winged my way to Santa Marta, at the opposite end of Colombia. I really enjoyed the Leticia-Bogota leg, where the plane swung wildly from side to side, especially as just the day before ... Read more >
Tags: arrecifes, beaches, colombia, hammocks, national park, santa marta, tayrona
Friday, 26 Aug 2011 | Views [2786]
I'd been in Leticia for 2 weeks. Used to dodging motorcycles to cross the road, being woken up at 5am by army drills and not ever quite used to overwhelming heat, but used to how ununsed I was to it. Unable to do a weekend jungle trip like I had hoped ... Read more >
Tags: border guard, brazil, scary, soldier, tabatinga
Friday, 19 Aug 2011 | Views [1558]
Going on jungle trips in the Amazon was a lot harder to organize than I´d imagined. As a solo traveller, it was near impossible to arrange anything and even if I had, I would have paid far, far, far more than what I could afford. Very frustrating, but ... Read more >
Tags: amazon, amazon river, amazonas, colombia, leticia, puerto narino, santa rosa
Saturday, 13 Aug 2011 | Views [1605]
Hey remember that time I went to three countries in one day? Yes, in a 24 hour stretch I spent enough time in Peru, Brazil and Colombia to truthfully say I visited all three. Not a bad effort - the benefits of living in the Tri Frontier region. I woke ... Read more >
Tags: amazonas, brazil, colombia, international borders, leticia, peru, santa rosa, tabatinga
Monday, 8 Aug 2011 | Views [1491]
In a sudden blur, I found myself having left quiet, sedate Chile where I knew the streets, the metro stops and had made friends and all of a sudden crash landing in an Amazonian border town (literally - the budget airplane I took skidded to the side ... Read more >
Tags: amazon basin, amazonas, arriving, colombia, leticia
Tuesday, 14 Jun 2011 | Views [1125]
I have a confession - despite years of living overseas and the countless plane trips I´ve taken in my life, when I was a kid, takeoffs scared the shit out of me. Until my early teens, I was legitimately convinced every single plane I flew on would ... Read more >
Tags: childhood memory, flights, scared, turbulence
