Buenos Aires a Bogota

Buenos Aires a Bogota

After six months in Buenos Aires we were finally leaving! We had completed the TEFL course and had worked hard as English Teachers in order to save some money to continue our travels. Unfortunately the teaching wasnt quite what we expected and the schools paid us peanuts. So we were both delighted to be going travelling again!

We were flying from Buenos Aires to Bogota via Lima in Peru. The 1st flight was relatively comfortable. No turbulence, decent film and a meal, and I must have been starving as I ate the horrible plane food courtesy of TACA airlines. It took four and a half hours to Lima. On the plane they now make you fill out health form declaring if you have symptoms of swine flu. I had all of them, a sore throat, headache, aching joints, loss of appetite and the rest. Of course, I declared none of these. I didnt want them to stop me going into the country. On arrival at Lima, we only had an hour to wait for our connecting flight to Bogota, Colombia´s capital. This flight was awful . There was alot of turbulence as we were flying on the left handside of a storm. We got a small snack, (probably not fit even for some borrowers!) and after two and a half hours we arrived in Colombia.

As usual our whiteskin and backpacks screamed tourists so we were mobbed by a load of taxi drivers. We got lucky and got a friendly chap who dumped both our heavy bags on his friends lap in the passenger seat. Exhausted we arrived at Alegria´s Hostel. We were greeted at 2am by a fat lazy american guy who appeared stoned to me. He told us our double room wasnt available. Great! So we offered an 11 bed dorm, or a 6 bed dorm, with no other alternative at that time, we stayed in the 6 bed dorm. I couldnt see a thing in the dark, and didnt want to turn on the light, so went to bed fully dressed thinking I´d forgotten what it was like to share a bedroom with a load of strangers. I was missing my bed in Buenos Aires already!

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