Day 210, 211, 212 - Santa Marta & Taganga, Colombia - Sunday 13th, Monday 14th, Tuesday 15th May 2012 We arrived into Santa Marta at 10am chilled to the bone - the air con on the bus was ridiculously cold. The taxi dropped us to the road that our hotel was supposedly on but after searching for nearly an hour, backpacks on and sweating from the sudden change of climate to baking hot, we gave up and decided to have some breakfast on the sea front. After eati...

Day 209 - Barichara, Colombia - Saturday 12th May 2012 Cobbled streets, rows of white pristine houses, a lovely plaza in the middle of the town, little shops selling handmade handicrafts and the waft of freshly baked bread lingering through the streets - Barichara we have arrived! After wandering around for an hour or so and just taking in the town, we headed to a little place set in a gorgeous courtyard for lunch; it was Saturday and so the locals were out o...

Day 208 - La Cueva Del Yeso, Curiti, Colombia - Friday 11th May 2012 Today was our action day and boy we needed some exercise after the gigantic pizza we'd eaten the night before. We booked our caving for 2pm and after getting ready, headed out to get a café con leche and pastry before our activity - more healthy stuff hey, I swear we haven't eaten anything green in a very long time!! 2pm arrived and so did our guides on little scooters; as it turned out t...

Day 205, 206, 207 - San Gil - Tuesday 8th, Wednesday 9th, Thursday 10th May 2012 I can't decide which is worse - Indian bus driving skills or Colombian bus driving skills?! It's a close call! Anyway before I get to the journey part……………we miraculously we managed to get ourselves to the bus terminal, buy two tickets to San Gil and even get ourselves coffee and snacks for the journey! Our Spanish is improving! We boarded our bus and we're most imp...

Day 201, 202, 203, 204 - Bogota - Friday 4th, Saturday 5th, Sunday 6th, Monday 7th May 2012 We arrived in Bogota looking and feeling like the living dead. We've stupidly decided not to get a hotel in Miami the night before as we had to be at the airport at 4am for a 7am flight, and so it seemed like a waste of money; so instead we just sat at Miami airport all night - meaning no sleep for us! After collecting our luggage, we walked out of Bogota's airport and...