Sunday 26th Feb - Bucaramanga to San Gil In the morning before leaving I had a quick walk though town in search of some breakfast for us and was pleasantly surprised to see a nice, clean, orderly city. Something that wasn't a common occurence in central america. On the contrary to what I and I'm sure most people imagine of Colombia, the streets felt really safe and the place felt very civilised and not too disimilar to what you'd find in Spain. We got a taxi back to the bus terminal and 3 hours later after a minibus ride through the picturesque mountains which signal the start of the Andes and we were in San Gil, perched in a valley on the road to Bogota. We went with a lonely planet recommendation and were very pleased
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