Finca El Cielo
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Statues and a haircut
... into town. Spotting a hairdressers, I managed to convey my wishes to a very patient lady who proceeded to gibçve me the best trim of my life! $4,000 later the wind was at last able to caress my scalp once more.
The hostel serves the most delicious food and we dined and drank the tasty house wine until sleep beckoned again.
The next day was very relaxed and spent researching the next section of our trip.
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M-people
... in the middle of the night. The roads were dark and abandoned except for some kids high on drugs who started asking us for money. We found it best to dive into a taxi and get out to the hostel we had checked up, Casa del Rio. It lay in the jungle, a five minutes ride from town. We had to wake up the poor Belgian owner to get a dorm room there. Casa del Rio was new-built and possibly the neatest place I've been staying on the journey. ...
San Augustin - day 2
... along the way, to see a river running through a canyon which was being farmed on both sides. A little further along from the viewpoint we made another stop to learn about the processing of cane sugar. The end product (for the home manufacturing part of the process) was a brick of golden coloured sugar, which we had seen sold in the market the day before. The Alto de Idolos was a site similar to the San Augustin Park, but a bit smaller, and much less impressive. At ...
San Augustin - day 1
... was at Chaquira. The horses had a bit of a run on the way here, which was good fun, and we still had a walk down several steps before we reached the site. Only one of the statues was really in good shape, the goddess of the river (?), however it was a pretty spot that overlooked the Rio Magdalena as it wove through a canyon. Again we saw how the people farmed on the steep slopes of the canyon, pretty amazing. From here we continued to the La Pelota and El Purutal ...
From the White City to the border
My last week in Colombia! After Cali I made a one night stop over in Popayan, the white city how they call it. It's a colonial town but unlike most others the houses aren't all painted in different colours but all white. It is indeed very pretty and home to many universities and also international students.
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