Well we made it to famous Cartagena, our last stop in Colombia before heading over into Central America. Our first impressions of Caragena weren't great but then we did arrive at the bus station in the middle of a storm! Once we got to the old centre though we were very impressed. The walled central area of the city is full of old mansions, little plazas and stacks of outdoor restaurants. The majority of our time was simply spent wandering around the streets and ...

Managing to get back into Colombia without incident we caught a bus up to the coastal town of Riohacha. Now that we are out of the mountains it has been getting seriously hot and we felt a beach was definately in order. Riohacha was nice enough for a couple of days but the beach wasn't too clean and there was little else to do in the town. Also the cat calls and creepy looks Alice received whenever she was out on her own were getting annoying. It was the first pl...

After having a great few days in Bogota we headed North to a small place called Zipaquira to check out the famous salt cathedral... dissapointingly not actually made out of salt. It was cut out of the rock left behind by salt miners, and consists of underground chambers containing huge stone crosses eirily lit up with green and blue neon lights (thankfully all minus spooky crucified Jesus). While it was an impressive feat of engineering, the spiritual journey its...

Well our plans have changed considerably over the last few days! We had orignally planned to head from Uruguay up to Paraguay and then across to Rio. However, we got to the bus station and found that we would either have to wait several days for a bus to Paraguay or go way back into Argentina to get across another way. Neither option particularly appealed and after getting the map out we figured that the current plan required a lot of long distance buses for very...