Casa Dann Carlton Hotel Bogota

... and in many embassies it takes only a couple of hours if you go in person (it´s instant in some places)" So we arrive on Wed night, even though we´re not flying til Sunday night, so we have 2 full working days to get it sorted. Err, wrong Mr Guidebook writer, try minimum 4 days not including weekends. And also not included is a description of what has to be the world´s most arrogant, officious, beaurocratic w*nker, who works at the Brazilian ...

... Immer frische Früchte und einfach nur lecker! Was total krass ist, aber alle sagen die jemanden kennen der ein Jahr im Ausland war: Die Jungs sollen hier im 1. halben Jahr ziemlich abnehmen und die Mädchen zu! Liegt anscheinend irgendwie am Stoffwechsel…und ich glaube es stimmt, ich hab den ganzen Tag Hunger! Naja wir werden sehn! Schadet mir ja eher nicht! :D

So ich glaube das war erst mal alles! Jetzt habt ihr was zu lesen! Feiert schön! Grüßlis an alle!

Toni

... more about that in a minute). The guide worked and we got lost very quickly indeed. We rode around sandy back-streets for a while, asking directions but not having much joy. Jacque’s gears didn’t work, my back brake didn’t work (again) but was permanently half-on so even in the easiest gear it felt like I was climbing a steep hill. We ended up in these rocky dunes, slogging our way through it in the heat and me yelling names at the woman for providing us ...

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We booked through netflights.com a
Thomas Cook subsidiary and paid £578 one way, for both of us.
It's not all good though, TAP lost the bikes en route but it
only took 24 hours to get them back. We were compensated 100 US dollars
for the inconvenience, payable in local currency, which turned out to
be not very much. More about the black market later. A word of
warning, the 100 they paid is for luggage, per person, and although it ...

Bogota is high in the mountains, and at about 2600m we both felt the altitude a bit when we arrived (choosing a hotel on the top of a hill didn’t really help either!) The primary reason for visiting Bogota was to visit the gold museum to see some ancient bling (a girl can dream can’t she?)! The place is stacked full ...

... at five to catch a flight to Lima. I was up in time, although my alarm had woken everyone in the dorm before it woke me. As a last minute inconvienence, I lost the key to my padlock which was guarding my passport. The nightwatchman pried it open for me. It seemed disconcertingly easy to get into the safe deposit boxes. I was on my way. Except I wasn´t. Having arrived into the airport with ample time (I am sure to do this now since I have realised that the ...

... your money in the bank or $5 if you exchange you money on the black market. Shortly after saying our goodbyes to Steve I hooked up with Frank whom I got chatting too previously whilst waiting for Maciek. Frank is a guide who organised tours to Gran Sabana and who offered us a good price for the tour and more importantly could also go for the tour in line with our timescales. We arranged to meet him the next morning outside our hostel. We were existed ...

How is it guys ? I would like to apologise to you for the poor state of my blog. I only opened it about 4 months ago, when I was in Costa Rica. It is the first time I spend so much time on a computer. I don't really use to it! Let me introduce myself quickly. I have been travelling for 15 years; I started when I was 16 years old. At that time I was only travelling for a couple of months before ...

... chicken flu by having a coughing fit next to him and eventually he moves off elsewhere. Not one person on the bus intervenes on my behalf. Rachel decides that Venezuela is a bad place. Once in my seat the journey is a comfortable one and we reach our destination of Cuidad Bolivar early in the morning. I recognise the town from a suspension bridge where I can see the vast brown Orinoco and the narrowing of the river where the town is located. We ...

... of billboards advertising luxury consumer products. Next to these billboards are long boards with "Say No to contraband and piracy" painted on them and "Contribute to our economy: pay your taxes". I find this all very interesting: clearly the people of Venezuela aspire to consumerism but according to the President, Chavez, this country is on a path towards socialism. I read in the paper that he said "It's bad to be rich; you need simply to be useful". In a ...