After lots of intense planning (by Alice) we had a truly intrepid Amazon adventure roughed out. We were to fly into a small town called Leticia, which is the very end of Colombia which is only accessible by boat or plane & also borders Brazil & Peru, then organise an amazon trip from there. We would then cross the border into Peru, take a river boat up the Amazon to Iquitos, which is the worlds largest city unreachable by road. Very cool. We were tr...

After a couple more uneventful days in Medellin it was time to move on. We were heading south to the mountainous coffee region & hopefully finally the opportunity to bust out the jumpers again! There are 4 small towns in the coffee region & we hadn't really decided where we would stop but our end game was a ranch in the middle of nowhere, just outside a small town called Salento. After arriving at the bus station & discovering no buses only fairly e...

I feel like we're cheating at the moment. We are sat outside with a hot cocoa while a thunderstorm brews around us, up in the hills in a boutique hostel on the outskirts of Medellin. Doesn't really feel like backpacking! After the constant Caribbean heat for the last few countries we welcomed simple things on arrival in Medellin, like being a little cold! Putting jumpers on! Rain! You can really tell we're British! So.. what have we been up to recently? Well....

Good bye Central America, Hello South America!! After a short stop-over in Miami, we got to Bogota, Colombia, to start the second half of our trip. Feels like we've been travelling forever! Having spent little time planning this part of our trip, it is a little bit daunting when you realise that the whole of Central America can fit inside one country in South America. Bus journeys jump from 4 hours to the next destination to 20 hour overnight buses and not onl...