Sunset at Playa Blanca

Bogota and Cartagena and also the Playa Blanca

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August 19th 2005
I´ve been a little slack in writing down things I´ve been doing since I got back from the jungle, sorry. Let me make some effort to fill you in now. I went to the Guaysamin art gallery, half of which was excellent, the other half may have been but it was also closed. That was in Quito. Then I flew to Bogota on a Sunday and went straight to that horrible hostel I mentioned, whose only advant ... read more

South America » Colombia » Cartagena

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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