Jan 13, 2020 | Central America, South America
When we arrived in Cartageña we had a leaving dinner as we had reached the end of this part of the Colombia tour. We were losing 4 members of the group, but gaining 4 Aussie girls for the next stage of Colombia. As is customary, Ronnie wrote a poem for the group, and...
Jan 13, 2020 | Central America, South America
We went to El Peñol, the second largest monolith in South America after Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janiero. We climbed the 705 steps to the top. There is a major hydro-electric dam which flooded the valley. The government relocated people to a new town. Flooded...
Jan 13, 2020 | Central America, South America
We had a long bus journey to the beautiful city of Medellin. It’s famous for art which centres around Botero, famous for his paintings and sculptures of oversized bodies. Botero Sculptures in the Plaza The “sticks” light up at night Nicknamed the...
Jan 11, 2020 | Central America, South America
Next stop was a small town called Salento. We swapped from the bus to some Jeep “Willys” to travel further up the mountain roads to Cocora valley before starting a hike. Many of the Jeeps were surplus after the second World War, and shipped from the USA to...
Jan 10, 2020 | Central America, South America
We took a short, 30 minute flight over the mountains to Armenia in one of the Coffee regions. [That’s Armenia the town, not the country we visited a few months earlier!] We then took an educational tour of a coffee plantation. Checking out a fun coffee grinder...
Jan 9, 2020 | Central America, South America
We landed in Bogota with a couple of days to explore the city before meeting our small tour group.We were pleasantly surprised by Bogota. The guides we read hadn’t really rated it, and we were expecting just a big, dirty city. Instead we found an interesting...
