Solento was about 7 hours from Medellin so we took a day bus. Feeling a bit sorry for ourselves on the bus after a massive night in Medellin. Solento is a small country town known for their coffee and cowboys.Arrived in Solento at about 8pm finally, found the hostel Plantation house which is about $40,000 pesos per night for your own room which was really nice and chilled out but just make sure you lock your room as they have had a few problems with bags being st...

We arrived in Medellin after a 13 hour bus trip which was cold and really really hard to go to the toilet when we are on a really windy road. Medellin was once very dangerous but these days the town is full of tourists. Junior left his sleeping bag in the taxi which was handy as our bags were getting pretty heavy.We visited the outside museum of Bortelo and there are 23 scuptures around downtown. We then visited the Sceince Museum which was for sure a different e...

We took the bus from Taganga to Cartagena it was only $40,000 door to door so that was sweet and only 4 hours.Cartagena is beautiful it´s got a beautiful old town surrounded by an old stone wall and then a new city which is like the Goldcoast.We dropped our bags and went straight to the pub and food a great place to have food.We ended up drinking some rum (yeah Junior now loves his rum) back at the hostel and then headed out to another hostel for a roof top part...

Our first trek and it´s freaken killed us.There were 8 of us and 2 tour guides who spoke no English at all. Thank god for Alena, Pablo and Kevin for been very great with Spanish or else I´m sure we would have had a very different experience.Day 1 after a 2 hour drive to a 4wd track which was extremely muddy and rough we finally make it to the start of the trek. We have a quick lunch and meet our guides then we head off walking for 3 hours crossing rivers and cl...

We took a 16 hour night bus to Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast. The bus wasn't too bad and pretty cheap at $77,000 Pesos. Had some random guy jump on selling necklaces and other trinkets. Ended up buying a necklace and a Colombian flag wristband for a couple of bucks. Landed in Santa Marta and then looked for a taxi to Taganga ($8000 cop) a tiny diving village only 15 mins from Santa Marta. Finally in Taganga and its a nice beach town we checked in Casa De...