Monday morning we headed off early to Bogota’s main bus station, through some different neighbourhoods which were more suburban and more familiar to us. Very unlike the dusty chaos of the central area near where we were staying. Our bus journey started at 9am and lasted almost 8 hours, with only a 20 min break for lunch. It was exhausting to say the least, although Amy seemed to cope really well with it. Once we got out of Bogota, the landscape was beautiful, through the mountainous Andes, through plains and over rivers. At times it was a bit terrifying (for Fee anyway) looking over the shear drops from the side of the road. We changed at Armenia, straight on the next bus to Salento, only a short 50 min hop away. Salento is a pretty, rustic
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