We arrived in Portobello, Panama after 5 lovely nights at sea. We didn't even need to go to immigration, Paul and sindry went for us. We were planning on doing some diving in portobello but the dive prices were much more expensive than we thought they would be so we changed our plans at the last minute and headed straight to Colon. We caught our first chicken bus to Colon, these buses are all over Central America and they are old american school buses that are no...

We were the first to the boat at 8pm and we were shown to the boat but John the captain wanted us to wait near the front of the docks to show the others where to go. When they got there we all made our way to the boat and John told us which beds we were sleeping in. We got the best bed at the top of the boat which was big and had a cool breeze coming through. We had a welcome beer and was shown the boat which was a beautiful traditional wooden yacht. It was cool ...

Our flight was uneventful but it was really nice travelling by plane rather than by bus for once and it meant we missed out a night bus which was really good! We grabbed a bus to the center which had giant speakers blaring out music and a crazy driver which is standard in South America. Locals told us to hop out so we did and then walked to a street which in the lonely planet had loads of hostels. We spoke to some people who were in a dorm for 28,000 ($14) so we...

We had yet another horrible night bus journey where we couldn't sleep and then piled into a mini bus to continue on towards Salento. Salento is a famous coffee region in Colombia, and once we arrived we decided to do a famous hike but having thrown our hiking boots away in Popayan we only had flip flops in which to do the hike! This was not a good idea! Once we eventually arrived to the start of the hike we realised it was all uneven and muddy. AND we don't eve...

The night bus to Bogota was uneventful, it actually arrived on time which was not good as that meant we arrived at 5:30! However by the time we got through traffic in Bogota in the coach and in the taxi it was already 9am before we got to the hostel. We tried checking in but Dan had mistakenly booked beds for exactly one month in front of what we wanted! The manager was so nice and let us pay for a ten bed dorm but put us in a 6 bed dorm because the 10 bed was f...