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...