This morning we headed off with Colombia Rafting expeditions. Sharing the buoyant bright blue boat with fellow travellers from France and Italy we headed down a local river with grade 3 rapids. All our photos are on the go pro so this is a stolen pic to get an idea. The young female instructor was very enthusiastic, encouraging us all into the water to float through some rapids and pushed Sophie in twice! Lucky it was a stunning morning for it :)

Next we headed up a massive hill near Curiti where we went paragliding looking out over Chicamocha Canyon. Again poor quality pic as everything is on camera but this is Soph and her guide doing acrobatics in the air. Was an awesome experience with an amazing, very green view over huge tobacco farms. We saw open sheds on the drive up where the tobacco leaves are dried.

After visiting the waterfall we got back into town and headed to the Parque El Gallineral which is a beautiful park by the riverside. The trees are covered with long silver fronds which give it an Avatar kind of feel :) Had a wander around there and then sat in the restaurant and enjoyed some Colombian beer before heading out for dinner.

We found the local bus station and asked the driver to take us to the "cascadas" - luckily he understood my Spanish and told us when we needed to get off. We had to pay a small entrance fee and then it was a 20 minute hike to the waterfall. The place was beautiful and there were people rappelling down the waterfall while we were there! We sat and enjoyed the sunshine and the view for a while before heading back to try and get a bus back to town. While we were bus...

Woke up in our lovely hotel in Bogota and had breakfast prepared for us and then headed to the bus station to start the 8 hour journey to San Gil. Possibly the bumpiest bus journey ever, the drivers out here seem to have a death wish on the windy roads overtaking each other and hoping there's nothing coming! Every time the bus stopped different vendors jumped on trying to sell you different things but luckily if you just said no or ignored them then they left you...