Horses + Hiking + Hills = Hamstrings. The bulging muscles barely fit into my pants now. I was hoping to slim down a bit with all of this rigorous exercise, but instead am almost splitting my pants with these huge muscles. If I could exercise this much during the school year I'd live to 115. So here's how I've challenged those hamstrings: On the ...

Arrived late in Popayñ where Gabby had a place for me to stay. She had class most of the day, but when class was out she showed me around town and we hung out with her friends. Really cool group of people and another good opportunity to work on that Spanish. They were very excited to show my the natural history museum and the Polar bear and moos...

De manha fui pegar a moto no ´parqueadero´ e saí por volta das 9 horas. A pesar da distancia nao ser teóricamente longa, a estrada seria de muitas curvas e trecho de serra, o que leva muito mais tempo, pois anda-se a uma média de 50 km por hora. Chegando a Pasto, comprei pilhas para a camera, que parecia nao funcionar. Eu nao tirara fotos de meu...

Após consertar a moto, Richar viu que estava queimando óleo e que talvez precisasse de retifica. Putz, cacete, pensei. Obviamente ele nao tinha os "repuestos" e nao poderia fazer nada. Recomendou que enviasse a moto a Medellin, e ligamos para seu contato. O sujeito, claro aceitou, e disse que nao andasse mais com ela. Richard achou que dava para...

Well, it´s never eary travelling. The market was on first thing on Sunday morning in San Agustin, and the place was packed. We thought we´d casually wander down to the bus stop and catch an early bus onto Popayan - No! All full apparently, until after, and it was only 6.45am - so with time to waste, we ate brek, and sat around the bus office for...

After leaving San Augustin the next day, I bumped into a few travellers on the road who I continued the journey to Popayan with. They had just done a fantastic horse ride in San Augustin, which I couldn´t have done just yet as my leg was still a little sore from the motorcycle burn. The journey was around 8hrs...down a bumpy, rocky road. It cut ...

after an amazing trip with the bus through a marvellous landscape....a small town with white walls all over, rain, "FUERA URIBE", macadamia nuts, ...

A group of us decided to head off to the nearby hot springs today. They are about an hour and a half from Popayan and required a change of bus mid way up a hillside. But the springs themselves were great, although a tad smelly due to their sulphur content. Its amazing how soon your brain blocks the smell out though! Although it was a Monday, the...

Yesterday I took a day "off" after the go go go of the last few days. I wandered around Popayan, admiring the pristinely white walls of the centre's buildings and getting horribly lost along with a good few locals trying to find a restaurant. The city is logically organised in squares and each street is either a carrera or a calle. Each of these...

Von Calí nach Popayan sind es mit dem Bus nur drei Stunden. Unsere Fahrt wurde allerdings durch ein gutes duzend Soldaten unterbrochen, die meinten sie müssten jetzt grad einmal unseren Bus filtzen. An die ständige Militär- und Polizeipräsenz in Kolumbien haben wir uns zwar mittlerweise gewöhnt, aber ganz wohl ist einem nie, wenn dich ein bis an...