We travelled and unravelled through Colombias Colonial towns. This is how towns should be, every house, building, park, church is sooo beautiful and so few cars, just people hanging out chatting, relaxing. Colombia really is COOL. And then we reached Bogota where we drank ALOT of coffee and it rained, hailed, blew cold wind. We went to a rock festival where they played death metal and there were a lot of disaffected youth wearing black MOSHING which involved human dodgem cars. I visited San Augustine where there are many cool statues left by the indians and amazing ENERGY. [View Full Entry]

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Well, Colombianos actually like Halloween MORE than North Americans. They party straight for at least a week, and I think probably two, and they do not go out unless they´re pretty much aiming to win the costume contest. And I don´t think they even have costume contests. We´d brought a few little things to wear, but Nety informed us that they certainly weren´t adequate, and quickly dressed us up with something more appropriate. Javier and Felipe came over and off we went to the Alma Nightclub which is owned by Tania´s boyfriend Jairo. Alma has three floors including a rooftop terrace [View Full Entry]

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Our final night in Bogota, again planning a quiet one considering our flight the next day, and quickly laughed out of that plan, thrown into the truck and driven north an hour to a small town called Chia. Chia basically exists solely as a town where the drinking rules are more lax than Bogota and so consists entirely of bars and restaurants. We were headed to Andres Carne de Res (Andres meat of cow, yum) which is a huge place several hundred feet long, where Bogota comes to eat extremely well and party in between eating. More aguardiente, more vodka, some [View Full Entry]

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All the Colombianos are denying it, but come on, we´re from CANADA, and it definately SNOWED. We were too slow to catch the photographic proof of the rigged up truck-tractor-plow clearing the freeway, but it´s in our memory... The weather continues to be loco and, in adition to the snow, there´s more rain on the coast than in the past 100 years and pretty much everywhere in Colombia is covered in thunderstorms. Thankfully it´s usally limited to the early afternoon so we´re still getting lots of stuff in. We´ve just spent a few more days in Bogota, and the stories and [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Santa Rosa, Peru to finish off our time in Peru. It was not much of a town. Dirt roads, small huts, and dirty. Luckily, we only had to go through a quick customs line and we were off on a 3 minute boat ride into Leticia, Colombia. In this region 3 countries come together. To the west is Peru. Northeast is Colombia. Southeast is Brazil. From the water you can see all three. When we landed in Colombia, we knew instantly that we were in a different country. Unlike Peru, Colombia has money and it is apparent. The [View Full Entry]

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So im not at the park anymore, I left probably a week or so after my last blog entry. It was always gonna be a hard thing to do but I did it and im glad I did. I think its probably the kind of place where you could get stuck indefinitely and I almost did, and as there’s a whole continent out there to be explored it would be a shame if I had. When I left I managed to drag along two girls with me (Laura and Fiona) who would be my travel buddies for the next month or [View Full Entry]

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It seems it wasn't guerrilla groups or murderous drug barons that we were to be wary of in Colombia, but rather the weather. The ominous clouds blanketing Bogotá we assumed were typical of the rainy season; the temporary closure of El Dorado airport due to flooding as we sat on the runway, a brief, barely remarkable hiccup. One flooded hotel room and another closed airport later, and we began to exchange nervous glances. Following the tourist trail, we were practically oblivious to the much-publicised problems which fuel alarmist warnings from armchair commentators - our biggest issues were the typical afflictions of [View Full Entry]

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Well, we arrived safe and sound in Bogota after 16 hours in planes and airports, but our backpacks (mochillas) decided they didn´t feel like coming to Colombia. No jackets, no toiletries, no spare underwear, no change of shoes, socks, pants, no towel, no hair product, yep you get the picture.... Thankfully, Mauricio´s girlfriend Nety WAS there to meet us and informed us that we would have to come stay with her until we figured things out. She has a great little place in North Bogota and soon had us sorted with extra clothes and everythig else we needed. You might not [View Full Entry]

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Dear all, I wish I had something fascinating to report about my latest travel. I will say this, Bogota is far different than the last few places I've been, namely Maputo, Lilongwe, and Dar es Salam. For example, Bogota has electricity and water 24 hours a day, every day. And while there were a few similarities, such as men with guns, the difference in Bogota was this - I actually believe that these were loaded AKs and not left over from the Soviet Union. Let me back up first. After a terrible flight - spending the night in Atlanta (oh wait, [View Full Entry]

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PRESTO ATENCIÓN A LO QUE AMO COMO SI EXISTIERA EL TIEMPO ME REAGALÓ EL PRESENTE. -juan chávez lópez i went to barcelona to say "ciao" to Ale before he went back home to Colombia, but instead went with him to Colombia for two weeks. [View Full Entry]

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