Destination: Colombia

Photos: Taganga & Cartagena

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 | By rubylucas | Photo Gallery

Photos: El Ciudad Perdido

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Photo Gallery

El Ciudad Perdido (The Lost City)

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Views [2595] | Comments [2] | Video

I came to Santa Marta to visit El Ciudad Perdido, The Lost City. Known as Teyuna (Mother Nature) it was built about 700 A. D. but after the Spanish arrival almost all of the inhabitants died from introduced diseases and the city was abandoned. It was ... Read more >

Tags: colombia, culture, el ciudad perdido (the lost city), south america, travel, trek

Photos: Backpacking in Colombia

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 | By ninamalina | Flickr Photo Gallery

Tags: bogota, colombia, ipiales, las lajas cathedral, medellin, pasto, salento, salt cathedral, trips from bogota, zipaquira

Photos: Bogotá to Santa Marta

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Photo Gallery

Bogotá to Santa Marta

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Views [4210] | Video

In the seven days it took to arrive from Bogot á I spent about 22 hours on buses and progressed about 900 kilometres (depending on your source) to Santa Marta. (This doesn’t include my side trip to Villa de Leiva.) Being on holidays, I chose to use ... Read more >

Tags: colombia, san alberta, san gil, south america, trave, tunja, vliia de lieva

Photos: Museo Del Oro (The Museum of Gold)

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Photo Gallery

San Agustín to Bogotá and the Gold Museum

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Views [1888] | Comments [1] | Video

The scenery from San Agust í n to Bogotá was really beautiful. It varied between mountains, valleys and deserts. There was a strong police and military presence; it was not unusual to see armed soldiers on the side of the road. At one point we were ... Read more >

Tags: bogotá, colombia, museo del oro, san agustín, south america, travel

Photos: San Agustín

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Photo Gallery

San Agustín

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Views [1564] | Video

I find it hard to say what I liked most about San Agustín. The landscape, the history, the people, I was impressed by it all. Having arrived at night, my first impression was of the peace and beauty of the hacienda where I stayed. It was in the hills ... Read more >

Tags: colombia, san agustín, south america, travel

Photos: The Road to San Agustín

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Photo Gallery

The Road to San Agustín

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 | By sally-annephillips | Views [2639] | Comments [1] | Video

It took six days to get from Vilcabamba, Ecuador, to San Agustín, Colombia. I had planned to get to Bogotá and then Caracas by bus as quickly as possible, but I realised that I needed a few rest stops and really wanted to visit San Agustín, to experience ... Read more >

Tags: colombia, ecuador, on the road, south america, travel

Colombia

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 | By rubylucas | Views [934]

The hostel in Cali   We stayed in a hostel that was only a couple of months old and it was quite luxurious. One of the guys who owned the hostel (a Scotish guy who was terribly worried about whether the business would survive or leave ... Read more >

Photos: Colombia

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 | By rubylucas | Photo Gallery

South of the Border

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 | By max23 | Views [287]

There's a Mark Twain quote that I like to think of whenever I'm in a situation in which a decision will drastically change the course of my life.   "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't ... Read more >