After Bogotá we headed to Tunja the City of churches. Which we were hoping would be a good place to witness the Easter festivities. Like I have mentioned before Latin America is a very religious place and this was proved in Tunja. On the Easter Friday there were lots of things going on and was difficult to try and be in a number of different places to try and see as much as possible. The streets were lined and packed with people and a procession went throughout the town, which included bands from school children to the military. The bands were split up by various congregations of the many churches all carrying plinths with various effigies of Jesus and Mary. They would all be barefoot and dressed in some amazing robes and a number of different ... read more

Medellin was next up and we had a lovely 15 hour bus journey to look forward to! To add to the excitement we were a bit nervous about this one as it was our first overnight bus journey in Colombia and we have heard about night buses being stopped and robbed. We looked on the Lonely planet website and there was a girl that was robbed and had a gun to her head throughout the ordeal and this was in a place we would be travelling through! The poor girl was in her first week of a year trip and it must have been awful for her and I hope she had the courage to stay travelling. After something like that I don’t know what I would of done? This is one of the reasons why ... read more

After our stay in Cartagena next up was Santa Marta in on the Caribbean coast. There were a few reasons for us to decide to come here. First was the tour to Ciudad Perdida (the lost city) which is in the middle of nowhere in deep jungle, like the name suggests. Built between the 11th and 14th century and then the people wiped out in the 16th century when the Spanish arrived. The trip takes a total of 7 days to hike there and back. After looking into it we decided to leave it as the pictures we looked at didn’t look brilliant and the cost of 115 pounds each was a bit pricey, it used to be 75, which we would have done. Our second reason was to do some more diving. We decided to ... read more

These are some of the Animals we have taken pictures of in the last 8 months in Central America. There are some wierd and wonderful and very strange indeed and thought who would like to have a look at what we have seen. I would say the majority of these pictures took about 30 shots each. A combination of a tempermental camara, shackey hands from too much drinking and wildlife that actual decide to move just as you take the shot, the cheek of it!... read more

From Bocos del Toro we headed to Boquete which in in the middle of a mountain valley just over 1000m. It had a nice breezy and cool climate and it was a nice change from the heat of the beach. It is a popular place for agriculture, growing lots of fruit and vegetables and famous for its coffee growing. We got lucky when we arrived and managed to find a really nice place to stay. The Hostel was on the river and our room had its own balcony looking onto the river with great views of the surrounding valley, it only cost 8 pounds a night so a real bargain. As the town is fairly high up it would sometimes get misty in the late afternoon and we got to see some great rainbows. We would ... read more