Tag: Colombia

  • All Good Things…

    All Good Things…

    This is it. This right here is my final blog post for South America. After a year of travelling throughout this continent, and not even able to see the entirety of it in that time, I bid farewell to my Latin American friends and prepare for my long flight back home. And in truth, Sydney…

  • Salento: Home to Colombian Coffee and Why I Don’t Want to Leave

    Salento: Home to Colombian Coffee and Why I Don’t Want to Leave

    I had foolishly decided not to write down the address of the hostel I had booked,thinking it was a small enough town to walk around for a while and eventuallystumble upon. However I arrived a little later than expected and it gets darkhere early, so I had arrived in the dark and began walking around…

  • Cali: Oh the Humidity!

    Cali: Oh the Humidity!

    Stepping out into Cali weather was like a flash back to Sydney on a bad day; the same mix of heat and humidity that leaves you sweating after a 10 minute walk. Outside the airport I caught a taxi into the city. The airport is a fair distance out oftown and they print you out…

  • Bogota: Welcoming me back to Latin America

    Bogota: Welcoming me back to Latin America

    The foolish plan was to sleep on the 6.5 hour flight to Bogota. I made sense at the time, but in practise it never works like that. I think I may have dosed off forabout an hour or two, so I was awfully tired when I arrived in Bogota airport.After clearing passport control and customs,…