For what seemed like the 20th day in a row we were up before 7 on Saturday morning to meet our Guide (Antonio) and the 2 Israeli guys and two Canadians we were off on our jungle tour with. We would probably normally avoid these types of tours but given we´re in the middle of the jungle we didn´t really have much choice. In the morning we travelled up the Amazon itself which is truly vast (10kms across and we´re 3,000 kms from the Atlantic) and visted Isla Mic...

We arived in Leticia on Friday morning having flown in from Bogota, the only way to reach the town is by air or the Amazon which its sits on the banks of, the descent into Leticia is amazing as from pretty high all you can see is forest, miles and miles and miles of it. Having jumped in a cab we had a bit of a mad rush to sort out a tour, we were able to do this before finding a hostel as we have dumped over half our stuff in Bogota so for the first time in mont...

We arrived relatively early in Bogota (see Villa de Leyva entry), and spent the day wandering around the La Candelaria area of the city which is where the universities are based and which has lots of museums - handy for a day when the rain never stopped. A bargain set menu lunch - soup followed by chicken and rice and potatoes for the princely sum of 2 pounds. Our bargaining skills which have to date been extremely poor, improved slightly when Steve complained a...

Villa de Leyva´s main square, unlike most of the town´s that we´ve been to is completely empty of trees, benches and the urbiquitous coffee drinking locals. We think it must come to life at the weekend for the markets. We stayed here for 3 nights in a rustic (read barn-like) lodge with an amazingly friendly owner who kissed us hello and goodbye with hugs and ´mi amors´ every time we saw her. I was charmed, Steve not so much. We spent another active few days...

Hello again from San Gil a small town in the eastern range of the Andes which run through Colombia. We´ve had a pretty action packed stay here. On Wednesday I went paragliding which was good fun, extremely peaceful to be floating around above the birds. We would have had some good footage to share with you all had Alison pressed record on the camera when I took off, unfortunately she didn´t get a chance to record my landing as we had a bit of a drop in the wind...