Chilling in the Capital of Colombia Photo 2

Chilling in the Capital of Colombia

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July 30th 2009
God I am sick of buses... Night buses when you are a traveller serve two purposes. One, they get you to where you are going, and two, they save you the cost of a hostel for a night. Unfortunately, I was sat next to a guy, who even though we were travelling at night wanted to look out of the window (at what I haven’t got a clue), but didn’t feel anyway about leaning over me to wipe the steam of ... read more

South America » Colombia » Bogota

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more