22nd October 2009 - 24th October 2009 After the many days of buses and travel we were pleasantly surprised by Pasto and desperately in need of a drink. Again we arrived in the late afternoon and after finding a nice hostel headed to the closest bar. We ordered a pizza, which turned out to be the largest pizza we've ever eaten, and some rum. When you order rum in Colombia you often end up with a bottle, glasses and coke served to you in quite a formal fashion. It...

21st October 2009 - 22nd October 2009 We stopped briefly in Cali, the salsa capital of the world, on the way down to Colombia. The city was a lot nicer than Medellin but unfortunately we couldn't stay any longer than the night we had. After arriving in the late afternoon we headed out to dinner and to see if we could find any dance action. We walked around for a bit and settled on a lovely Mexican restaurant. There wasn't too much going on in the area we were ...

16th October 2009 - 19th October 2009 We arrived in Cartagena and the annoying German captain made us wait around for two hours in the sun before he got off his boat to get us our passports. When he finally did go down and get them we followed and found him having a beer at the bar with a friend. For that we wrote "Don't go" on his fliers we found in the hostel. He he. Cory and Ryan from the boat trip stayed at Casa Viena with us in the room next door...

19th October 2009 - 21st October 2009 A lot of people had suggested to us that Medellin was a great place to visit. We still can't work out why. We thought it was okay but there wasn't really a whole lot to do. After arriving and catching the public train (which was pretty great) to our hostel we decided to head into the city to look around. There wasn't a whole lot to see or do so we decided to find a cinema to watch a movie. On our way there a guy walked past ...