Hey there, the last three days we spent in and around Villa de Leyva (VdL) - a colonial mountain city and, as we had to experience, a popular travel destination for people from Bogota. After a quite tiring trip from the coffee zone - the driver listened to music aaaalll night (scatmaaaan......) - we arrived in VdL early Saturday. We decided for a trip by mountain bike in the surrounding area. We started to really enjoy it, when Maarten with full speed passed a...

Hola chicos, como estan?? or in english: How are you guys? Well, we are good - again. We passed through some less enjoyable days. Anna had stomach cramps for almost a week, resulting in quite some changed plans and some not so nice days. But lets start from the beginning: Still in San Gil - the outdoor capital of Colombia we had to cancel our rappeling trip - or it was canceled because it started raining too heavily...Well what a good timing because Anna got ...

Dear friends, to realize Anna's birthday present - as we were not able to go paragliding in Guatemala due to weather conditions - we went to the parque nacional de Chicamocha. We contacted a company that we found in the internet. It turned out that our instructor had participated in the world championship of paragliding and was the best colombian with rank 23. Anyway, we felt very secure with them and had a great time with them: Picking us up from the bus stat...

Dear all, is Tayrona a scam?? Can the beaches really be more pretty than the ones outside the national park?? Is it raining there?? We spent quite some time thinking about whether we should go to Tayrona national park or not. In the end we decided to do so - even though we already spent quite some time at the caribean coast. The plan was to hike through the park rather than spending a lot of time at the beaches (as everyone else seems to do). We entered th...

Dear all, what a trip! You cannot imagine how much effort it took us to do this trip - and basically because the information in the Lonely Planet is incomplete about this part of Colombia. So we had a small inside in how it used to be traveling before this guidebook existed (we summarize our experience below / last section of this blog entry). We have written you before that we were traveling together with Patricia and Juan, which was great because with fou...