It all worked out fine in the end! Diary of an older woman travelling solo in Colombia.
March 7th 2015 Well, on Friday I went to see the so called famous salt cathedral which is only about 45 kilometres from Bogotá in a place called Zipicará. The cathedral 'no me impresionó mucho' but the journey was quite an adventure. On the outward journey, to avoid the dreaded Transmilenio, I took a taxi with the lovely hotel driver who told me that Colombian men didn't allow their wives to travel on their o
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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 
