Since the last time: No problems crossing the border from Colombia to Ecuador and no 24 hour journeys involved. The truck was waiting to meet us at Ipiales just inside the Colombian border. The flight from Bogota had involved stopping in transit for 7 minutes (!) at somewhere very hot which I think was called Asis. We got off the plane, walked to a big cage which was then locked, got out and walked back to the plane. And it also started snowing inside the plane as we were about to land, but I´m sure there´s a scientific explanation for that. [View Full Entry]

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What can I say, Colombia has it all, Caribbean coastline, friendly people, beautiful landscape and a drink called Colombiana which is almost exactly the same as Irn Bru. They also serve fruit salads with cheese on top, but I´m still getting over that one... And if you thought the last photo was bad, then there´s none at all in this entry as my top quality 40pound -off - ebay camera has decided to give up already. So I will just have to paint pictures with words... The camera gave up the ghost at altitude (that might have been the problem) in [View Full Entry]

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Hola from Merida in the Venezuelan Andes. We spent the first night here after arriving from Puerto Colombia - quite a dramatic 2 day drive that takes you from the coast up to (I think) about 3000m. We had our only night wild camping on this section of this trip to split the drive up, and I´ve got to admit, it´s not what I had in mind as being the type of camping we would be doing - we ended up pitching our tents next to a motorway tolbooth! I think it´s a security thing for this part of the world, [View Full Entry]

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hello from the Caribbean! I´m in Puerto Colombia, a small town on the caribbean coast of Venezuela - did I mention the Caribbean?! The story so far is: I flew to Lisbon 1 week ago, spent a couple of days there just pottering about. Just went for a long walk the first day and then went to the Oceanarium the second day, and had another unexpected long walk trying to find it after taking a wrong turn. Pretty uneventful, but it was nice just spending time in pavement cafes somewhere warm and walking by the sea. Or it might be a [View Full Entry]

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