The route

Heading south for the winter

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January 3rd 2016
It keeps raining in England so we are heading south to see some more of the world. First stop will be Columbia, where we plan to explore two areas, the cloud forest around Bogota (where we will stay in a tree house) and the Caribbean coast. Then we are flying to Haiti for some jazz, some voodoo and lots of colonial architecture. Then we will be taking the bus to the Dominican Republic whe ... read more

South America » Colombia » Boyacá

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more