Just a quick note to let you know that we have just taken the scariest bus ride I have ever been on. We have uploaded a video of the trip but it does not do it full justice. We were travelling from San Agustin to Pasto near to the Columbia-Ecuador border. The bus looked like it should have decommisioned many years ago and the roads were just about wide enough for a car. The road surface was broken rocks and gravel and we losty count of the amount of waterfalls t...

Today we visited the UNISCO World Heritage Archeological Park which is approximately 3km out of town. 3km is not far so we decided to walk… bad idea… the heavens opened and we got soaked. I was starting to notice a pattern that around the same time every day it absolutely chucks it down with rain. I have since found out that we have our good friend El Niño to thank for this as the weather system is currently affecting certain areas of South America. Typical!...

Our time in Bogotá had come to an end and we all agreed that we should get out before the inevitable mugging happened. We (Katie, myself, Disa and Cecilie) went to the bus station to catch our night buses. We said goodbye to Disa as she was traveling North to Medellin and we were heading South to chill out in a place called San Agustin for a few days. The guide book describes it as a very relaxed hippy haven so this is just what we needed after a hectic time in...

As we were staying in Bogota for a few days we decided that we should do some exploring towards the limits of the city and we went to an area called Zapoquira. We used the extensive city bus network to get there after dodging the possible thiefs and pickpockets on the way to the station. We decided that after trying to take one picture in the square in Bogota and seeing people eye up our camera that keeping the camera was better than getting photos! We arrived ...

We have arrived in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, we had a tiring but relatively trouble free journey over the border from Venezuela, apart form one annoying bus driver who refused to take us to the border town of San Antonio which was the supposed destination and left us at a different town with another hour of bus journey to go! We arrived unscathed at a nice hostel in the old district of Bogota. We´re already hearing horror stories of violent robberies from...