http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/whereswesty/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from whereswesty en-us Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:29:24 BST Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:29:24 BST Just over a week ago I finished volunteering in a children's centre in the city of Ibague in central Colombia. I had been there for two and a half months living and helping out there. The centre is part of an organisation called Manos amigas which as well as the childrenrsquos centre has a home for the elderly and affiliations with other childrenrsquos and womenrsquos centres in the city. T http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Lima/blog-240449.html My three month visa in colombia expires on thursday and as of yet ive written nothing about this country. Im in the city of Popayan sort of in the south. Its another one of south americas white cities with its all white colonial centre pretty nice although ive spent only about half an hour looking around in daylight. ill be leaving here early tomorrow morning in order to get down to the border w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Popayan/blog-238433.html So im not at the park anymore I left probably a week or so after my last blog entry. It was always gonna be a hard thing to do but I did it and im glad I did. I think its probably the kind of place where you could get stuck indefinitely and I almost did and as therersquos a whole continent out there to be explored it would be a shame if I had. When I left I managed to drag along two girls with http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-217131.html Sorry its been so long since i last wrote but i have been well and truly wrapped up in this crazy little park in the bolivian jungle. I started to write this blog entry about a month ago but couldnt finish it because there is so much i wanted to say about this place. i have attempted to finish the article about 4 or 5 times since but everytime i come back to it something crazy has happened in the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Cochabamba-Department/Villa-Tunari/blog-189962.html Bienvenidos a Bolivia. My third country on this magical mystery tour. I have been here for almost a month now after I arrived here from San Pedro de atacama in Chile via a seven a hour jeep ride. The long and bumpy jeep ride in which our driver kept falling asleep at the wheel took us to the town of Uyuni. A very unspectacular town it has to be said but its big redeeming factor is the nearby Sal http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Chuquisaca-Department/Sucre/blog-172266.html Ok so here I am back in Chile after numerous weeks of travelling and stupidness. Last time I wrote I was in Bariloche which I have to say I really miss. The four weeks I spent there were unbelievable. The school I was at the people I met and the place and region in general were all amazing. My favourite place so far. I left Barriloche on Sunday the 6th of April for Mendoza where I stayed for a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Antofagasta-Region/San-Pedro-de-Atacama/blog-164084.html Howday Sorry it has been a while since I last wrote but there is always somehing going on and its hard to find time to sit down on the internet. Eitther that or i am just lazy you decide. So the last time i wrote i mentioned that i was going to a Roger Waters concert which I did and it was brilliant. The setting was really cool and the music hasn't lost its affect over time. The weekend after http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Santiago/blog-144745.html Hola So I am finally in Chile. The flight over went fine I was sat next to a sicilian guy called Daniele. He seemed really nice but we could only communicate in some mixture of of pigeon spanish english and italian. I was just nodding my head for about twelve hours. The last hour of the flight was amazing because the plane flies right through the Andes as it descends towards Santiago. I had a w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Santiago-Region/Providencia/blog-135307.html