We caught a taxi from the hostel in Bogota to the terminal des transportes passing through graffiti alley - the main thoroughfare into the city from the west that is lined with incredible graffiti... none of which I was able to take a photo of. The taxi driver was the nicest ever and waved us off as he drove away. The terminal is huge and took a bit of time to determine where we could get tickets to Villa de Leyva. Most companies said they had buses leaving in th...

The flight from Leticia to Bogota was about 1h 45 mins - after 24 hour bus journeys and 2 weeks on a boat it seemed like a cinch; we'd hardly settled in by the time we came into land. On taking off we saw a mass expanse of jungle, and coming in to Bogota was very different with mountain ridges and small towns dotted among them. We arrived in Bogota really excited but at 2600 metres above sea level I could already feel the altitude. Took a taxi to our hostel (Mas...

At our hostel we met Joe (from Yorkshire) and the three of us braved the heat and went for lunch in a little cafe in the street. I had a hamburger and it was amazing, but to be honest, anything other than rice, spaghetti, meat and beans would have been nice. I spent the rest of the afternoon in a sweaty internet cafe next to a guy who continually burped really loudly. When I got back to the hostel, instead of finding Alex I found a note that said "gone in search ...