Colombia: A country where toilet paper is not sold on the black market. We arrived in the recently opened El Dorado airport in Bogotá and were glad to be in a new country. We met up with Matt, Phant's friend from work, and his wife Sandra. It was nice to see a familiar face and have a native of Bogota as our tour guide. We walked around La Candelaria, the old town, and visited the Gold Museum which was really interesting. The following day we went up to Montserrate in a cable car and enjoyed fantastic views of the city.

Our next stop was the colonial costal town of Cartagena, which we flew to in order to save us from the grueling 22 hour bus journey. We explored the colonial streets and admired the impressive architecture. We visited the city walls and saw the canons used for defending against English pirates.

In Santa Marta we enjoyed viewing the different statues they had along the coast and started our trip to Cuidad Perdida - The Lost City.

San Gil is Colombia's adventure town but sadly we were too exhausted from lack of sleep on the trek to try any extreme sports so we just roamed around the city and visited a peaceful and relaxing garden.

Villa de Leyva is a chilled little town surrounded by beautiful mountain scenery. We visited the Fossil Museum, hiked up a mountain for a view of the city, and went on a day trip with the lovely colombian couple we were staying with.

The next town we visited, Zipaquira, is home to a vast salt mine containing a huge cathedral carved out of the rock; it was fascinating to walk round.

Our last stop in Colombia was a little town called Villeta where it seemed we were the only non-colombians in town! We visited a waterfall and watched as local kids climbed up and across a rock face to reach the top!

Colombia is a beautiful country and the bus journeys were a great way to view the scenery, however, sometimes you have to brace yourself as the drivers don't seem follow the speed limits and drive like they are being chased by the police!