Blogs from Bogota, Colombia, South America - page 14

Monday - 29 October - touch down in Bogota, Columbia and jumped into a yellow cab to the Cranky Croc hostel, despite it's name, not run by an aussie, come to think of it i never did meet the owner just a series of hostel workers some columbian some other nationalities!! the cab driver was quirky maybe too old to be driving because when i spotted Monserrate in the distance and pointed, he pulled over to make sure he answered 'yes' correctly, this wouldn't have been too bad on a normal road, but we were on the freeway and he had stopped on the fork of a junction off it, much to the confusion and annoyance of all the other cars on the road, it would have been an instant fail in the driving test. i ... read more

Jæjaa eftir langt og strembid/leidinlegt ferdalag vorum vid loksins komin til Sudur-Ameriku, okkur til mikillar gledi. Vid lentum rett fyrir hadegi og tokum taxa a Tip Top hostelid tar sem vid vorum buin ad boka gistingu. tar beid okkar yndisleg 4 manna fjolskylda sem voru meira en tilbuin til ad bjoda okkur velkomin til Kolumbiu. Vid byrjudum a tvi ad skola af okkur ferdasvitann og svo beid hin yndislega Maria ( mamman) eftir okkur og fylgdi okkur i naestu götu a sinn uppahalds kolumbiska veitingastad. tar fengum vid sko veislu! heimagerda graenmetissúpu med ferskum koriander, steiktan kjukling/naut med hrisgrjonum og saetu saladi og eitthvad gums sem var a bordinu sem atti vist ad endast daginn en hun Eyrun ad sjalfsogdu klaradi tad eins og henni er likt. eftir tad roltudum vid um baeinn og Eyrun fekk ... read more

Hi all, I've been in Colombia for well over a week now so it seems like a good time for an update. I arrived in the capital city, Bogotá, around 5am on Thursday 14th after a couple of overnight flights from New Orleans via Houston. After attempting (and failing) to extract some Colombian pesos out of the ATM machine with my card in Bogotá, I took a taxi to my hostel which was located in La Candelaria, the old historic centre of the city. I hadn't slept on the flights, so after dumping my bags I promptly fell asleep and continued to sleep for most of the day. When I finally got going, I checked my emails and found one from my parents letting me know that they'd had a call from Natwest Fraud department regarding ... read more

Webby here...Apart from our trip down G bar nostalgia lane, catagena was not that great as G describes "a Carribean Blackpool without the candy floss", more like crack pool, judging by the vagrants that wander the shore lines. With this tingling in our minds, we left the murky shores and cast iron statues behind, much like the slaves that were freed there all those years ago and set sail (via a bus) to pastures newer, and greener, and as we were to find out, colder...Bogota, the Colombian capital was to be our destination, a hive of activity, fuelled with peace rally's, markets, cheap food and accommodation and McDonald's, which has still escaped my grasp despite my longing for a quarter pounder, they even tease me with an advert, played constantly on the television out here, it ... read more

We took a bus from Quito to Bogota, Colombia, which was an excruciating 23 hours. Upon arrival, we went to the hotel that Lonely Planet had reccomended, but it sucked, was noisy, and had no hot water. After some exploring the next morning, Justin found a new place around the corner, still in the rustic district called Candelaria. Our new hostel, Casu, has incredibly friendly and helpful staff, and through their reccomendations we discovered much about Bogota. We had heard about a salt cathedral in a nearby town, but were unsure of how great we would find it, after the spectacular Salar de Uyuni and the salt hotels there. One of the hotel workers persuaded us otherwise, which I am very happy about. The "cathedral" was amazing! It was originally a giant salt mine, and now ... read more