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Travel Blogs from Manizales
What would you do?
... cycled 80km, with no sign of the intersection that we needed to make the final turn towards the coffee plantation. We knew that we were on the correct road though, but our distances were not accurate. We continued on and pushed past the tiredness, to eventually arrive at the intersection. Kory was really tired and had scraped his leg on his pedal, which was bleeding and probably stinging from the blood, sweat, sunscreen mixture. So, now ...
New toy
... coffee and getting our things ready. Maria-Theresa very kindly brought us to Chinchiná to the bus station and by some miracle we were both suddenly able to understand her today and communicate with her! The few days total immersion must have done us some good.
Last night we had told MT of our plan to get the bus early in the day from Manizales to Bogota today (a 10 hour trip and we wanted to arrive in Bogota before dark, and flights were ...
Coffee plantation and heavenly desire
... was very relaxing and I took a day´s break from the scheduled activities to recover from the fast paced travel and having a spot of not being so well. Which was very nice particularly after a night of lightning and thunder which was cool but not very conducive to sleeping.
Also we had a tour around the plantation which in the high season employs four hundred pickers who get paid by the kilogram, at other times they employ about a hundred as ...
Heartbroken
... town like Manizales offered the only thing that would dull my pain - lots and lots of Colombian beer in the Zona Rosa, what Colombians call the nightlife district. Bouncing aimlessly from place to place, drowning my sorrows ... I felt so empty, so cold ...it may have been because Becky contains all my clothing so I was walking around wearing shorts and sandals in 15 C weather, but I believe it's because I ...
COFFEE
... manizalles is no different. The city itself is really clean and modern.
4th day
Headed out of manizalles in the morning to Cali and then Popayan. Long day of travelling but we were now running late so needed to get as south as possible as quick. Spent the night in Popayan and went out for dinner with a couple of people who work in ...