I travelled to Zipaquira to see the beautiful salt cathedral,now reckoned to be the foremost tourist attraction in Colombia. It replaced an original salt cathedral carved by the miners in the salt mine decades ago,allowing them to pray while they worked underground. When it became unsafe it was decided to hold a national competition to design a new cathedral underground. It is spectacular. The mines , which have enough salt left for a further 500 years of produc...

To Bogota, the capital of Colombia,where I arrived on Monday evening. The eight million people do not enjoy the best of weather with lots of rain and heavy cloud as the city sits at a very high altitude of 2600m, something I was reminded of as I became very breathless jogging through the streets . The residents of this city are fiercely proud ,as are all Colombians. They have been through a lot in their history, most recently a series of civil wars, the birth ...