Blogs from Leticia, Colombia, South America - page 3

With our return date looming and our point of departure being half a continent away we decided that a couple of flights and a boat ride were necessary to ensure another call to Oneworld partner airlines wasn´t required in order to chane the date again......to be fair changing the date was out of the question given we had 2 tickets for U2 at Wembley on the 15th of August. We flew from Bogota to Leticia. Leticia is the Colombian town at the three frontiers, which is he point in the Amazon where Colombia meets Brasil and Peru. We had arranged to stay at a lodge, Tacana Lodge about 40 mins out of town, run by an Ex-pat Brit called Steve McLear and his Colombian partner, Elena. Steve's a top bloke who has been in South America ... read more

I’m about 9 weeks into my world travels 18 flights completed so far & find myself travelling around Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon checking out the zoo which was a wee bit sad but had some cool animals that we hadn't seen on our amazing Amazon tour. The highlight was the pink fresh water dolphins that they hand-feed fish to so that you get a look at them out of the solid brown water...typical of most skanky wet places around the Amazon! Alas it's time to leave Peru & my traves with Julz behind & head out on my ownsome to Colombia: The boat trip down the Amazon took 11 hours in what looked like the inside of an aircraft cabin, had waiter service & two toilets, but wasn't too bad...considering I was out until 2 ... read more

You squash another mosquito against your skin while admiring the dense jungle scenery. Colourful birds fly past while you are distracted by pink dolphins jumping from the river. Indigenous children stop and stare while you float past remote jungle villages. Suddenly the boat speeds up and you hold on tight as it crashes through giant lilies and drift wood. You sit back and struggle to take in the size of the Amazon while looking at a million prehistoric trees. Suddenly it all sinks in, you are in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth - The Colombian Amazon. Leticia & The Trans Frontier -------------------------- Where else in the world can you cross illegally between 3 countries several times in one day? On a Colombian visa I travelled back and forth between Colombia, Brazil ... read more

Hey everyone!! Sorry i havent done an update for ages but things have been quite crazy the last few weeks!! Finally arrived in Tabachinga after 6 days on the Amazon boat and got a taxi over the border to Leticia (Colombia) after stamping out of Brazil, - the change between countries was sooo obvious, once in Colombia the streets were lined with police and military men, armed with massive maschine guns... was quite scary but reassuring at the same time! After learning a bit of Spanish on the boat, I even managed to have a tiny political conversation with the taxi driver about how Colombia is now much safter because of Uribe, the Colombian president! :o) Got stamped into Colombia at the Leticia airport and then asked to be dropped of at an internet cafe in ... read more

We´re safe - just haven´t had much time to update the blog - the jungle tires you out. It´s incredibly humid and we will be sailing the Amazon for three days, until we hit Manaus. I hope to find a speedier internet connection there for the uploading of photos and such.... read more