Hello everyone, Today we just arrived in San Gil, which is about a 7 hour bus ride north of Bogota. I think the road was more twisty than any road I have been on in Vancouver. Tomorrow we are going to go white water rafting in the morning, and paragliding in the afternoon. Then we will be heading to the North Coast to spend time there. While in Bogota, we wandered around the city center the first day. The second day we went to a Salt Cathedral. It was a huge cathedral dug out of the side of a mountain, and [View Full Entry]

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After being so lucky to have locals looking after me in Bogota and finding out that whenever I ask the price of anything it is always double what they are told I have been extremely frustrated travelling on my own and am constantly wary of the locals. I met an old man at the bus station on my way back to San Gil from Barichara who tried to befriend me, I was thinking he´s old enough to be my grandad, surely he could´t hurt me and it turned out he just wanted to show off his country and make sure I [View Full Entry]

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Nach Taganga bin ich nach San Gil in der Region "Santander" gefahren. Dies ist ein schoenes kleines Staedtchen, auf ca. 1.500m, also tolles Klima, grosse Fluesse und die Berge drumherum. Hier kann man sich nach Herzenslust an Outdoor Aktivitaeten austoben. Von Raften ueber Klettern, Mountainbiking, Reiten, Caving gibts eigentlich so gut wie alles. Suedamerika ist mein lang ersehnter Abenteuerspielplatz. Hier gibt es alles von Lianen, Matsch, Klettern, Hoehlen usw. Ich habe mich in San Gil auf Caving und Reiten konzentriert. Beim Ersteren klettert man mit Helm, Weste und Stirnlampe ausgestattet durch stockdunkle Hoehlen, scheucht Fledermaeuse und Vampire auf (den Unterschied gibts [View Full Entry]

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Before I start this blog, just to explain that I am doing a bit of 'blog-catch-up' at the moment as time got away on me and I haven't had a chance until now to get them all updated! I am currently in Australia but here is my last instalment from Colombia before I arrived home in Oz. Adrenalin packed rafting expedition in San Gil... The closest i've felt to drowning! So after dragging ourselves away from the gorgeous Caribbean Coast, we first headed down to the adventure capital of Colombia, San Gil. We stayed at a great hostel, run of course [View Full Entry]

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Unbelievable but true I went to the white water rafting capital of Colombia. Ok San Gil is the only place in Colombia where you can go rafting but we won’t be picky will we. The other reason why I thought of stopping in San Gil was that it nicely breaks up the 20 hour bus ride to the coast. Didn’t expect much from the town but I liked it very much. It is not that big (30.000), very clean (which is surprising for a SA city) and feels very safe. Safe enough even to go for a run after dusk on [View Full Entry]

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Unbelievable but true I went to the white water rafting capital of Colombia. Ok San Gil is the only place in Colombia where you can go rafting but we won’t be picky will we. The other reason why I thought of stopping in San Gil was that it nicely breaks up the 20 hour bus ride to the coast. Didn’t expect much from the town but I liked it very much. It is not that big (30.000), very clean (which is surprising for a SA city) and feels very safe. Safe enough even to go for a run after dusk [View Full Entry]

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