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Published: July 18th 2014
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Our Arrival We arrived at 8:45am on a night bus at 9pm from Medellin. The bus terminal is 20 min walk from the town centre. From the terminal go over the bridge and walk down carrera 11, turn left down calle 4 and you will reach the town centre square.
Where We Stayed Hotel Capital - carrera 5, calle 7. COP$20,000 for a double room with TV, internet and shared bathroom. There were plenty of bathrooms and our room was right next door to a bathroom. One of the showers had hot water. Rooms were set around a nice courtyard.
What We Did Walked around the town looking at the nice white buildings and churches
. Went up Cerro El Morro for town views and to see the monument. There is also a church up a hill, Templo Belen, however as we were about to head up there we were approached by a woman who seemed to be leaving for a lunch break and dressed in a white health care uniform. She told us (from what we could understand with our bit of Spanish) that last week a tourist was robbed whilst
heading up there by a guy on a motorbike and recommended that we didn't head up there with my handbag, any valuables or even wearing my earrings! We therefore decided we wouldn't bother going up.
Where We Ate Rico Sabor - on carrera 5, just south of our hotel. Soup, a main dish and a drink for COP$3,000. There is a board with the menu.
Also on carrera 5 was a burger place with burgers for COP$2,000 or COP$2,500 for a cheeseburger.
We got a soft serve ice cream in the main square for COP$1,000.
There is an Exito supermarket on carrera 5 and calle 7.
About Popayan Popayan is a nice small town with lots of colonial buildings.
Tourist Information is on carrera 5, 4-68 in a not very obvious building. They have good maps of the City.
It is a shame but there is a lot of graffiti around Popayan, on the bridges, the monument and benches.
It felt very safe and there were lots of police around the town.
We got the impression that Popayan folk are not big drinkers, we only
saw one really fancy bar in the town and not many restaurants etc seemed to sell any beer.
There were a lot of churches but they all seemed to be closed when we went around.
It was sunny during the day but got chilly at night time.
Where We Went Next We caught the bus to Pasto. It was a 20 min walk to the terminal from the centre. We asked at several companies and each one quoted COP$25,000 to Pasto.
Not many places were open in the morning so at the bus station we got a tasty pastry type thing with chicken inside for breakfast for COP$1,700.
We chose Transipiales minibus to Pasto. It was due at 8:30am however didn't leave until 9:05am. Everyone had assigned seats however no-one stuck to them and it was a mad scramble to find somewhere to sit (although everyone got a seat). There wasn't much space for luggage under the bus. We were sat at the very back which was a bit squashed. There was no aircon on the bus.
At 11:10am we stopped at a restaurant for a 40 min lunch break.
There was a lot of road work especially at the beginning of the trip and we arrived in Pasto at 4:30pm, a couple of hours later than we thought we would.
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