http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Colombia en-us Mon, 06 Jul 09 20:55:25 +0000 Mon, 06 Jul 09 20:55:25 +0000 El Pais De Amor The Country of LoveI039ve been a bit lazy so I039ve got quite a bit of catching up to do.After Medallin I got bus to Monteria then to Coveas.After a day on the beach Carrabian I went to Cartagena.After booking into my hotel n orgonising to get my washing done the hotel asked if I039d like to do a tour of city that afternoon.I said I039d let them know.I went to my http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Choco/blog-415128.html So we sat down to discuss the rest of our trip and have decided that we will be staying in Colombia for the duration of our stay. The rest of South America is going to have to wait until next time and perhaps I can start recruiting people for the second leg of the journey now any takers Colombia is just too big and too captivating to leave now and we dont want to waste the rest of our precio http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-415100.html SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH.Salut tout le monde. Samedi matin passe je suis arrive a Medellin. Je suis directement alle a une auberge qui s'appelle le Pit Stop Hostel. Nous etions super fatigues donc nous nous sommes chouches toute l'avantmidi.Medellin est une super belle ville. Leur metro est plus propre que celui de Montreal et puis pour rentrer ca coute seulement 80 sous. Le dimanche j'ai pr http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Medellin/blog-414603.html Soooo wieder zurueck nach dem surfen via santa marta nach bogota geduest. endlich mal ein aktueller blogeintrag... wir mussten zurueck in die kalten berge weill taemy endlich nach hause darf und ich zudem meinen flug zurueck zu verschieben hatte. das hat zum glueck super geklappt. merkt euch das datum 23. dez. bin ich in zuerich smilezu bogota...ich mag dich nicht. du bist zu kalt. brrrr. ich http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-414454.html Sooo endlich haben wir uns ueberwunden. und oh wunder eine surfschule gefunden. dies auch noch in der karibik was sehr abnormal ist. dafuer ist das wasser warm. wir hatten eine tolle zeit und haben fast schon richtig surfen gelernt mit genug grossem brett hab ichs schon super drauf mit kleinem muss ich noch ueben. zudem hab ich eine tolle mujer de surf kennengelernt mein spanisch wird also b http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Parque-Nacional-Tayrona/blog-414439.html Nach dem Essensalptraum Cartagena sind wir dann nach Santa Marta gegangen.Santa Marta ist irgendwie ein beliebtes Ferienziel der Columbianer. aber ausser einem nicht grad sehr schoenen strand und viel rum hats dort nicht viel. wir sind da hin weill wir nachher in der naehe surfen gingen...naja viel zu erzaehlen gibts glaub nicht. ausser das es sehr sehr heiss ist dort...nach ein paar tagen sind w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/blog-414436.html 1st July Medellin Colombia We watched Andy Murray win this morning People at Hostel del Sol seem quite nice. The cleaner is hilarious she washes your clothes for 6000 pesos 1.80 we only found this out after walking round the city for 2 hours in the sun with all our washing like tramps trying to find someone to wash them only to return to the hostel and get told that theres a washing mach http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Medellin/blog-414270.html well first of all you have to run across and pray to God that those lovely yellow taxis and the gentlemen driving them will not make you into a pancake I really hope my insurance is sufficient continuing.... what it feels like to be in Bogota Colombia.... it is a sweet mixture of Spain and its leftover colonial haciendas mixed with uberchic modernity feels like I am in Northern Europe w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-413842.html Wenn ich daran denke dass es erst etwas mehr als eine Woche her ist dass ich in Santa Cruz war auf meinen Bus nach La Paz gewartet habe und dann das Riesenchaos anfing ... Meine letzte Woche war von sehr vielen Busfahrten 3 Fluegen und peruanischen Strassenblockaden gepraegt. In La Paz angekommen habe ich relativ schnell einen Bus nach Peru gefunden habe die Grenze ueberquert und alles schien http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-413777.html 29th June Villa de Leyva a Medellin ColombiaWe got up early in order to make sure we didnt miss the bus Medellin. We wanted to make the bus trip during the day as we'd read on the net that the roads werent very good and that it would be through mountains. It brought back memories of the terrible bus journeys we got through Ecuador and Peru where the drivers are doing 80mph round blind spots on http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Medellin/blog-413678.html 28th June Villa de Leyva ColombiaThe town was having a festival this weekend. The cost of all the hostels went up from maybe 30000 pesos per night to 6070000 pesos But our hostel was a dump It was under heavy construction and was really noisy all day because of the builders. There was also never any hot water so I think the owner knew she couldnt charge us what the other hostels charge on http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Villa-de-Leyva/blog-413675.html 27th June Villa de LeyvaIn our neverending efforts to save money we chose to buy breakfast from the supermarket. Colombia was alot more expensive than we thought the cost of a hostel was basically half of our daily budget.We ended up with tasteless croissants and a yogurt each. We also stocked up on some high energy food as we going to go on a hike from the town of Villa de Leyva to a waterfall http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Villa-de-Leyva/blog-413663.html 26th June Villa de LeyvaI was woken up by what I thought was a storm I thought I heard people saying there was a storrm coming and there was loads of banging so I thought they were boarding up the windows. Terrified I woke Jake who just laughed at my crazy imagination. When I walked out of the room I realised the 'storm' I thought I heard and the 'boarding up of windows' was the builders work http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Villa-de-Leyva/blog-413662.html 25th June. Bogota a Villa de LeyvaNot that impressed with Bogota and its weather we decided to leave We thought we'd get the Transmilenio which is supposed to be one of the fastest and cheapest ways of getting around. A single tickets costs 1500 pesos about 35p but the bus system is really difficult to understand. We kept getting on them and the transmilenio would just zoom past our stop http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-413661.html Traveling is pretty amazing. The local language amazing people stunning views exotic food surreal experiences different cultures and new ideas. It makes you wonder why everyone doesn't do this. Why you didn't do it sooner and why you can't do it more. It can also suck. The local language of Spanish is one of the main reasons that I chose to travel in South America. I studied for 1 year in Hi http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Cartagena/blog-412694.html After getting back from the jungle we decided to hang around Quito for a night and then catch the flight from Quito to Medellion on the 6th We stayed in Medellion for 1 night in Black Sheep hostel which was really nice and so we sat down to watch Anchorman and The kite Runner. The next day we decided to take a look around the city and so when we stepped of the train we saw a student protest. As http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Taganga/blog-412594.html Hello folks we are in Mexico now chilling out before venturing into the Yucatan and more temples Its Thursday night here so hopefully you will get this on Friday. Apologies to those of you readng this on Monday morning.Leannyrsquos cold had cleared up enough for us to have a look around some of the local attractions to Santa Marta. Our first trip was a short bus ride to the fishing village http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Cartagena/blog-412384.html SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH.Bonjour tout le monde. Ca fait une couple de jours que je suis ici a Cartagena en train de profiter de cette belle ville. C'est apparemment le joyaux de la cote colombienne En tout cas je m'amuse beaucoup ici. La premiere journee nous sommes arrives tard le soir donc nous sommes juste sortis souper et apres on a dormi.Avanthier je me suis quand reveille quand meme t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Cartagena/blog-412305.html 24th June Bogota ColombiaMuch like the previous day we spent the morning booking some flights and planning our next few days. Back at the hostel I couldnt believe it when a small skinny guys walked into the place wearing what looked like a costume out of Harry Potter. He was wearing a huge cone head shaped purple hat and a purple cloak He was obviously a breed of hippie I have never se http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Bogota/blog-412001.html After a few days in Cartagena we were ready to go to a slower paced part of the country and take it easy for a while. The problem with Cartagena is that while it is on the coast it's beaches are kind of nasty and that leaves one with just a lot of hot and humid town without the chance to really cool off. Enter Taganga a beach village about 4 hours East along the coast.The first thing I noticed http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-411973.html