Popayán

Popayán

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March 30th 2010

Published: March 31st 2010

Thursday morning I awoke and showered. I caught sight of my back in the mirror - I was peeling so badly that it looked as though somebody had taken a huge bunch of dried white flowers and prit-fixed them to my back. I was shedding skin like a snake. Urggghhhh.. I breakfasted and finally got into town at about 11am. It was a warm day already. Myriam (the owner of the hostel) had given me some ... Read Full Entry

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Chris Williams

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Unaccustomed as I am to public writing, I'll keep this short. So the plan is to jet off to Bogotá 15th February, take in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina...and maybe a quick dip into Uruguay for good measure. I just have to make sure that I reach Buenos Aires on or before 31st May for my flight home. And this is where it's going to be documented...the good bits and the bad bits...hope there won't be too many of those! I'm pretty useless at keeping things updated so Im going to try to get into the habit by starting now - 1 month (ish) from de... full info

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31st March 2010

anita
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kissy kissy
YES!!! :-)

7th April 2010

colombiana
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Caldas
Hi Chris, Caldas was a scientist, military, geographer, botanist, astronomer, naturalist, journalist and patriot of Colombia. For his erudition and vast knowledge of many subjects was known to his contemporaries as the Wise, epithet which has passed into history. He was born in Popayán and died in Bogotá. He help to free the country from the spaniards. You are right, in every single town in Latin America (at least in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru y Bolivia) there is a plaza de Bolivar, for the guy that libertates this 5 countries (a single country by that time called La Gran Colombia) and whose political project Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez wants to continue on this days (in a very bad, misunderstood way.) Saludos!

7th April 2010

monket
Chris Williams

Re: Caldas
Superb! Many thanks for the history lesson! Isn't the Internet a wonderful thing folks? Right now I'm sitting in a bar in a cold and rainy Quito - and very much missing the warm Colombian climate :-( Well, at least I'm in a bar, I suppose ;-) Chris

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