An easy section of the trail

Walking Ciudad Perdida, Villa de Leyba and Cycling Bogota

January 11th 2016
On my final Christmas evening in Cartagena I enjoyed the festivities in Plaza de Santo Domingo and a Colombian family invited me to share a bottle of aguardiente, an aniseed flavoured alchohol, and listen to the musicians that they had invited to their table. The next day, I caught a bus to Santa Marta, a favourite Colombian seaside resort, behind which rise the highest coastal mountain range i ... read more

South America » Colombia

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

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Kate Moore

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Welcome to my travel diary. This travel blog was started when I took a year to travel round the world in 2005-6. It was a fabulous year spent in three continents: Africa, Asia and South America. I met many people and had many adventures. Over the following three to four years, I regularly travelled to the Rift Valley in Kenya as part of my PhD study. I then worked for two years as a Research Associate visiting nomadic herders in Mongolia and Kazakhstan. I am still travelling as and when I can. I hope that you will enjoy my journals and keep in touch. Kate... full info

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