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South America » Colombia » Tolima » IbaguĂ© July 26th 2009

this is my first blog...ever! and I'm currently writing it in a small city in the middle of nowhere, Colombia. The city is called Ibague and is located in the province/region of Tolima which is about a 3 hour car ride over the mountains surrounding Bogota. I have been using ibague as my central point for my travel in the region. While I do enjoy the city, my main love of the region comes from outside the city. surrounded my mountains, Ibague is a perfect place if you want to see the true face of Colombia. As you go out into the country and the mountain sides, you encounter amazing natural sites of the forests, rivers, and small villages within them. I have been here for a week now, and my favorite thing has been going ... read more

South America » Colombia » Tolima » IbaguĂ© August 19th 2008

We need to keep moving as we've still got some distance to cover yet and lots of things we want to see, so to get to Bogota we decided to hop there seeing as many places on the way as we could. First up was a 3 hour bus from Popayan to Cali (Colombia's third largest city). We would have liked to have had time to explore Cali but there are other places that we want to go more so we headed straight out to Armenia a further 4 hours away. Armenia's setting is its biggest attraction as it sits between a valley and some of the highest mountains of the Cordillera Central mountain range. The town itself was pretty ugly (aka it was a shit hole) but we didn't arrive until late afternoon so didn't ... read more
Ibague main plaza
Art, Ibague
Scenery Armenia to Ibague road




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