What can I say? I loved the place. I ended up staying 10 days and could easily not have left. A massive factor for this was undoubtedly the hostel I stayed in; El Viajero, which for me was everything a hostel should be. It had a great atmosphere and I met so many cool people from all over Latin America, Europe and the States. It's in the beautiful San Antonio area, in a old colonial building set around a courtyard with lots of plants and hammocks to chill in. It ...

So getting to Tierradentro is no easy feat. I had to first get a minibus to La Plata and then get a pick-up truck to the town of San Andes de Pisimbala. Shortly after leaving La Plata the road was essentially a dirt track so it was bumpy to say the least but there were two lovely teenagers in the back that I befriended and so we were chatting the whole way so it was fun. However I wish I had a picture of me for the last 15 mins when there was just me and the teen...

So I was a little torn about leaving the party central of Bogota for my birthday but I was also very excited about spending it somewhere unique so I teamed up with a cool Spanish girl and we took the bus to Neiva to begin the journey to the desert. We got out at Aipe where a taxi driver was waiting and he took us to down through the town to a dirt track by a little stream where we were to follow a path across a little bridge and through some fields to get to th...

Well what can I say Bogotá is huge! With a population of almost 7.5million, compared to the whole of Ireland at less than 6.5 million, no matter how long I spent here I was only going to touch the surface. My first night I barely did that. After clearing immigration, which took nearly 2 hours and getting a cab into town it was almost 7pm before I arrived at my hostel. So I asked the lovely receptionists -two of whom were called Laura, so I already knew they wer...

Well if I left the lake to escape the rain I'd come to the wrong place, being in the mountains Xe'la (or Quetzaltenango to give it its proper name) gets its fair share and my first impressions were not great. Xe'la struck me as quite a grey, uninspiring city. And having recently come from Antigua with its gorgeous colonial architecture Xe'la didn't really deliver on this front either. However I had heard that it was exactly this, that was its charm- it offered a ...