Blogs from Colombia, South America - page 288

L’étape après Cali (ou nous avons en vain cherché les plus belles femmes de la Colombie!), nous sommes allés à Manizales, une ville des Andes et de la région du café en même temps. A part le super panorama sur les Andes, cette ville était plutôt une déception, incroyablement moche, par contre le parc national de los Nevados à côté est une vraie merveille avec des pics de montagnes atteignent les 5390m très exactement, l’ entrée du parc étant déjà à 4800m! La petite balade à pied pour atteindre les 5000m semblait plus facile que ce ne l’était en vérité. Nous nous sommes sentis comme des vieux de 80 ans! Bon, surtout, moi, Sabine, j’ai un peu peu mal vécu l’altitude! Je vous épargne les détails.... ... read more

Howdy everyone! I am in Taganga right now, it is a small town outside of Santa Marta at the northern tips of Columbia. I figure I should do a short update, since I haven´t updated for a long time... well, a lot of things have happened, I would love to feed you on every single little one of them, but it would take me days to put it into writing. I promise though that at a later date I will do a detailed update..... as the Internet here is actually rather expensive. My rough itinerary is to head to Ecuador next after Columbia and then start my Amazon river travel to Brazil...then settle down for a bit in Brazil (I am really tired of dragging my 30 kg luggage everywhere I go...especially when I am looking ... read more

Poursuite des aventures pré- colombiennes à Tierra Dientro. Région très reculé au regard des transports en commun disponibles, à savoir très rustiques surtout 6 heures d’affilées dans la poussière, bosses et autres vapeurs de gas-oil... mais ça valait la peine. La spécificité du coin qui est l’ unique de toute l’Amérique du sud, ce sont les tombes souterraines. Assez étonnant, et également le panorama spectaculaire avec rando qui grimpe pas mal. Ensuite nous étions à popayan, la deuxième ville coloniale de Colombie (sauvée par son développement modéré, super!) La petite Sabine et le petit Nicolas se portent bien sinon.... read more

Well, Colombianos actually like Halloween MORE than North Americans. They party straight for at least a week, and I think probably two, and they do not go out unless they´re pretty much aiming to win the costume contest. And I don´t think they even have costume contests. We´d brought a few little things to wear, but Nety informed us that they certainly weren´t adequate, and quickly dressed us up with something more appropriate. Javier and Felipe came over and off we went to the Alma Nightclub which is owned by Tania´s boyfriend Jairo. Alma has three floors including a rooftop terrace and oficially held 1,100 people although I can´t imagine that there was less than 1,500 and was basically insane. People were dancing on every square inch, the aguardiente was flowing, there was live music, techno, ... read more

We arrived in Santa Rosa, Peru to finish off our time in Peru. It was not much of a town. Dirt roads, small huts, and dirty. Luckily, we only had to go through a quick customs line and we were off on a 3 minute boat ride into Leticia, Colombia. In this region 3 countries come together. To the west is Peru. Northeast is Colombia. Southeast is Brazil. From the water you can see all three. When we landed in Colombia, we knew instantly that we were in a different country. Unlike Peru, Colombia has money and it is apparent. The streets were paved and there were stores for companies such as Puma and Nike in buildings that looked as though they would last through an Earthquake (sorry to all those whos lives were lost in ... read more