When we sat at home thinking of which countries we'd visit, Colombia wasn't somewhere we envisioned having time to see, infact we thought we'd only have reached Bolivia by Christmas. But it turned out that time was on our side and as it kept coming up in conversation with other travelers as one of the must see countries in South America we tagged it on. When I told my mum we were going, being a bit of a worrier to say the least, she said in horror, “Oh Charlotte you're not, please don’t go there it’s so dangerous”, which to be fair is the general consensus of anyone who hasn’t been there (little did we know that leaving the place would be the most dangerous part, but that's the next blog!). Having spent a month there
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