Our one and a half hour flight was much better than the other option of a 36 hour, very bad, twisty and turney bus ride!!! Avianca are actually very impressive for an airline, offering more leg space than we have seen on any other airline!!! So we arrived into Cali, late in the evening, went straight to the hostel and bed! We were up early the next morning to get a bus to Popayan. We managed to find the bus terminal without having to ask too many people!! and ...

Cartagena is a beautiful city, an old Spanish colonial town surrounded by new high rise modern buildings. Probably the hottest place we have been so far, with heaps of humidity and an average of 32 degrees, and it only ever went down to about 27...at night!!!Our hostel was located inside the walls of the old colonial town. We had heard in advance that it was their independence festival so we had booked to save us from having to search for accommodation, unlike th...