Waiting for the Cable Car

A pretty little garden..

February 18th 2010
As if I wasn't high enough already (Bogotá is at about 2.5km above sea level), yesterday I decided to go a little bit higher - about 500m higher I think. Monserrate is the mountain that towers over Bogotá. On the top of the mountain is a 17th century church and the usual tourist stuff (restaurant, cafe, market selling tourist trinkets etc). So yesterday I set off at about 10am to try to t ... read more

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Chris Williams

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Unaccustomed as I am to public writing, I'll keep this short. So the plan is to jet off to Bogotá 15th February, take in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina...and maybe a quick dip into Uruguay for good measure. I just have to make sure that I reach Buenos Aires on or before 31st May for my flight home. And this is where it's going to be documented...the good bits and the bad bits...hope there won't be too many of those! I'm pretty useless at keeping things updated so Im going to try to get into the habit by starting now - 1 month (ish) from de... full info

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