Well there is no stranger capital city in the world that i have been to than the one that is tha capital of Brasil, with its aeroplane inspired design and difficulty in getting around also. Most of the buildings do not look more than twenty years old and the city just rises out of the desert as one approaches it by land or air. In a little way it kind of reminds be of Birmingham combined with bits of Liverpool for the architecture in england with the all the high rises around brum & spaghetti junction bearing a resemblance also. [View Full Entry]

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four nites and five days on this not so luxury slow boat to take me from colombia much deeper into brasil where i can head south to brasilia & rio & sao paulo. After spending almost a week on a small river boat I decide that I have not had my fill of river life. therefore, I book onto a four nite, five day boat trip donwstream to the brasilean port of Manaus where I can definately catch a flight further south to brasil and the beach hopefully for a bit of much needed reset & recuperation. We manage to [View Full Entry]

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Now this is Amazon Volume Three, Piranha Fishing, Nightime Caymen Hunting & Giant Lilipads of the Rio Yavario South America » Colombia » Leticia » Rio Yavari Amazon By Juanes April 9th 2007 Jason Burnettmore amazing amazon fotos [View Full Entry]

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The sun sets here are absolutely amazing and every nite the sky over the jungle regularly lights up with a colourful mix of blues, yellows, pinks, orange, black & grey depending on the clearness of the day because it can rain here too like no other place I have experienced in central america. After the group head backs to Leticia in colombia and the combined port of Tabatinga in brasil after an unforgettable five days I am left with a lingering feeling for wanting to see more of the almighty green monster and also experience more of the main waterway [View Full Entry]

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Wow this really is it, my ´Sueno Dorado´ or major dream for the english readers of this text. This is why I have endured the numerous vaccinations last year in england and constantly taking the seriously strong larium for fighting malaria for & what I have been looking forward to most in my travels of latin america so far - the amazon and all that it has to offer. I get quite lucky when I arrive from my flight from Bogota into the Colombian side of the amazonia which is Leticia and I meet the two australians greg & josie, [View Full Entry]

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salsa night out in the zona rosa South America » Colombia » Bogota By Juanes April 5th 2007 Jason Burnettheaded to the northern part of town for a night out of beer, vodka, rum and salsa dancing at some of the finest hotspots in bogota with my friends yurora and tatiana, the sexy sisters in the fotos you see - friends only... [View Full Entry]

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I have arranged a flight to the amazonia in southern colombia Leticia here in the capital city of Bogota which leaves in a few days time because unfortunately I have returned to the city at easter time or semana santa which for the heavily religous folk here in latin america means holiday time. While biding my time here, I manage to get in touch with a few colombian amigas from my internet language learning site for meeting new friends and because they have visited london over the last few years it makes it easier on the converation and they decide [View Full Entry]

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two days around the province of Huila in Colombia visiting the world heritage ruins in this part of the country. i felt quite priveledged knowing that in 2006 only 10 people a month or 120 for the whole year visited this marvelous place deep in the colombian countryside not far from Guerilla territory but deep in the countryside. enjoy.... These ruins really do feel a lot more historical than the Aztec and Mayan places that I have visited in Mexico and Guatemala and the ingravings on the statues is not as detailed as the ruins of Tikal, Chitzen Itza and [View Full Entry]

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Typical Colombian Bus Journey South America » Colombia » Valle de Cauca By Juanes March 27th 2007 Jason Burnettmore words to be added later about my 3 days in the Cauca region of Colombia to see the ruins of San Ausgustin. Some of these pictures were taken from the bus ride from Popayan to San Augustin deep in the south [View Full Entry]

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El parque nacional natural los nevados at 5130 metres to which i climbed. The second highest mountain range in colombia after the sierra nevada near the carribean coast. more words to follow but this is the most cold i have been in about 4 years since playing football on a windy saturday afternoon with hail...well its not all sun, sea and sand in latin america. [View Full Entry]

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