Blogs from San Agustin, Colombia, South America

I was meant to spend more time in Ecuador than I did. First of all I was supposed to do a trip to the Amazon which I then decided to can; and second, I was meant to spend at least one night in Otavalo, just north of Quito, to check out the town’s famous market. However with no accommodation available the night before the weekly Saturday market – I should have perhaps been a bit more organised and clued-up about it, and should have anticipated this – I had to reconsider my plan. I could chance it and just go there anyway, hoping to find something once I am there, but I wasn’t keen on the possibility of walking all over town trying to find something and then having to pay top dollar for the only ... read more

So I finally arrived in Colombia following a 1 in the morning bus to the border from Quito, a taxi from immigration to the bus station to an ATM in town back to the bus station and a daytime nine hour bus ride to Popayan city. Colombia has been the country I have been most looking forward to experiencing since the start of the trip as the few people who"ve journeyed there brought back tales of unbelievable landscape, exotic birds, fruits and flowers, a shady history and scarcely believable stories of Colombian peoples' friendliness, hospitality and generosity. Intrigued as to how much a dark past had blossomed into something so positive, my plan was and is to find out more. While many travellers rush up to the big urban cities of Medellin or Bogota or head ... read more

Des aventures a San Augustin, ce n'est pas ce qui a manqué! J'arrive le soir vers 11h, le petit pueblo me semble charmant même dans l'obscurité. J'ai besoin de me poser quelques temps dans un même lieu pour faire partie d'un projet. J'arrive a la Casa del Sol Naciente et on m'accueille avec de la bonne nourriture et un feu de camp. Jai l'impression d'être arrivée au paradis. Un petit coin tranquille dans les montagnes, l'endroit est magnifique. La première journée de bénévolat se passe bien, sauf que la dame me laisse a l'hostel beaucoup plus longtemps que prévu. Le jour suivant c'est la même chose. Le jour d'après aussi. A ces heures prolongées s'ajoute la découverte d'une femme avec un tempérament impossible a tolérer et une humeur exécrable. Jamais rien qu'on fait bien, toujours quelque ... read more

beautiful days in san agustin... read more

Here are some photos of the sights from Colombia. Hope you enjy looking at them. Take care, Miss T... read more