Our 12 hour overnight bus ride from Bogotá to San Agustin was easy peasy. They showed Sleepless in Seattle in Spanish - good practice and relaxing too. I slept for a while until we all had to get off the bus around 3am - no explanation given - only to get back on 5 minutes later. Our time in San Agustin was wonderful. The cabaña at Finca El Maco, a farm owned and run by a Swiss ex-pat and his Colombian wife was "buggy" but charming, and more than made...

The ten days we spent in Bogotà were a mixed bag. I had fun playing tour guide around "my" city, but was also sad that I was unable to meet up with the family I lived with a year ago. It was also a very different experience seeing the city as a tourist rather than a temporary resident. Whereas I had lived in the northern more suburban neighborhood last summer, this time Josh and I stayed in a charming little hotel in the historic and now hipster neig...

Colombia is our favorite place so far. We`ve been the only backpackers on several buses and feel somewhat more off the tourist track. It`s nice not to have people coming up to you constantly trying to sell trinkets or tours, and we`ve been able to just relax more and check out regular life go by. For the most part people have been so eager to welcome us and find out what we think of their country. Several times I`ve gotten into a taxi cab exhausted only to get d...

When we got to the top of Ciudad Perdida after three days of intense hiking, we were asked to sign a guest book which posed the question, why did you do this? We wrote the truth, which was that we finally just couldn't come up with a good enough excuse not to. We had gone through them all: Sinus infection, check; mosquito allergy, oh yeah; aversion to hammocks, that's me! But in the end we felt that we'd regret it more if we passed, so after a big shopping trip t...

Just wanted to send out a quick post before we head into the Colombian jungle. How's that for dramatic :) Yesterday we went to a nearby national park to hike and try sleeping in hammocks in preparation for the Indiana Jones of treks - Ciudad Perdida - The Lost City. It's 6 days and 5 nights in the jungle sleeping in mosquito net covered hammocks. Sounds appealing, right? We're not 100% sure yet if it's something we really want to do or just something we want to s...