San Gil had been recommended to us by our coffee tour guide Juan as I asked him if there was anywhere we could stop on our way north. He told us of San Gil and explained that it was quite the adventure place where you could raft, paraglide, trek and mountain bike. It sounded like Colombia's version of Banos. So we thought why not? We had been rattling through Colombia; San Gil was our fourth Colombian city / town within the week. It was approaching the end of Ea...

Most people had warned us about travelling on night buses in Colombia, even the guy on the information desk at the terminal. Despite the warnings we still gave it a go, they had said the same in Asia and we were fine there. The bus had pretty much zero leg room and it was quite pricey at 47,000 Colombian Pesos but what it did have was the one thing we craved on a bus since our first trip in South America - a plug socket. In fact it had four due to an extension ca...

Sorry for those of you who expected a blog on Colombia capital Bogota, a late spanner got thrown in the works and instead we headed to one prong of Colombia's coffee triangle Armenia. It all started as I wondered around the hostel carelessly and impatiently before we set off, with all the hammocks taken my attention drew to the notice board advertising hostels for other towns and cities across Colombia. A few caught my attention for example The Pit Stop in Medell...

Getting to Cali wasn't the easiest trip we have ever done. First there was the metro bus to a bus terminal, then a taxi to another bus terminal. From this bus terminal we got a six our night bus to Tulcan a town in Ecuador on the border of Colombia. From here we were to get another taxi to the border get our stamps and then get another taxi on the other side to another bus terminal where we would get a bus to the bus terminal in Cali that took approximately 13 ho...

After 4 hours, the remaining 14 chapters of the book His Lordship and hundreds of sweets we were in Ecuador's capital - Quito. The bus ride was fairly painless apart from Phoebe's Tourette's like twitch whilst she was asleep which saw me get a kick to the leg a couple of times. The bus terminal we arrived at was still quite the distance from the backpacking area of Quito so we all huddled in a taxi. Well the taxi was more like a van with four of us crammed in the...