Having had an early-ish night I finished the book I was reading, "Marching Powder", which is a first hand account of the Bolivian jail system written by a guy named Thomas McFadden - a Brit who was imprisoned there for almost 5 years on drug trafficking charges. The book was written by a guy named Rusty who happened to visit Thomas whilst he was in the prison. The prison is the strangest and most corrupt in the world with prisoners having to pay an entrance fee, ...

Medellin is a picturesque city built completely within a valley of mountains, and offers an opportunity for one of the best paragliding spots in the world. Putting our directional skills to the test we caught the metro to Caribe, the bus terminal, and then caught a bus up into Medellin's surrounding mountains up winding mountain roads (which we are very used to by this point). The journey in total was almost two hours and it was irritating to find out that it wa...

We arrived in warm Medellin early in the morning and travelled to Poblado, an extremely nice area where Happy Buddha Boutique Hostel was based. We has some breakfast at a cafe nearby which was so luxury and I ordered a smoked salmon and cream cheese toasted bagel - home comforts! We then went out to explore and although everywhere was very very quiet I could tell it was a lovely neighbourhood we were in. We got the metro to Industriales and climbed up Nutibara ...