Rain rain and more rain!! Today was truly wet and miserable in Medellin, we were planning to do the cable car but it wouldn't have been worth it. After 10 attempts trying to ring the hostel in Rio Claro (a nature reserve on the way to Bogotá) we finally got through on a pay phone and booked a room for the night. It is really expensive as it is a private nature reserve owned by a family so hopefully it will be worth it, we have read good things about it. We vent...

Arriving in Medellin to 18 degrees and rain was a bit of a shock after being in Cartagena, nonetheless it was quite nice to escape the heat and mosquitoes. The Avianca plane we were on was by far the nicest so far and better than what we'd had for long haul! We only found out once we had landed that we were at the international airport, which is 44km from the centre of Medellin - we were expecting to arrive at the national one which is 1km away! We took a collect...