Hotel Heliconias Armenia
Km. 2 via Panaca Armenia, Colombia
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Dali's Dreamscape
... through the valley itself, which is studded with wax palms like spikes on a massive dormant dragon's back. Positively surreal, the images seen today could only have been painted in the mind of Salvador Dali, during the most fantastic and whimsical of dreams.
As memorable as the hike was, the highlight of today was probably coming across a Canadian hippie on the trail - quite the character, with a travel style and way of life ...
Zur Laguna del Otún
... nass, da sie ja hinten auf Harvys Regenponcho draufsitzen musste. Sie hat dann auch nur ein Foto geschossen und sie sind umgekehrt. Hat sich nicht wirklich gelohnt.
Dafür ist dann nach ca. einer halben Stunde Rückweg plötzlich zumindest partiell der Himmel aufgerissen, so dass man auf einmal ein herrliches Panorama auf die verschneiten Gipfel der Vulkane Nevada del Ruiz, Isabella und Tolima ...
In den Parque Nacional Los Nevados
... morgen zumindest halbwegs trocken werden würden.
Die Familie, bestehend aus Andrés, seiner Frau und seinem fünfjährigen Sohn, wohnt hier oben sehr abgeschieden. Sie leben von der Milch ihrer Kühe, die sie zu Käse verarbeiten, vom Kartoffelanbau und versorgen sich selbst mit dem Fleisch ihrer Tiere (Gänse, Hühner, Schweine, ...
Tortilla, Tejo & Treking
... of Kalimotxo!). After teh exercise and excellent food I slept like a baby which was all well and good as the following day I would be on the move again.
Before departing Salento for the airport at Pereira (another flashpacking chapter beckoning) I enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast of (proper) bacon sandwiches (only the travel brown sauce was missing) and watched as Abid gave Jesus a culinary masterclass on making curry - strange things you see!
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A Fairytale Land
... was watching, to get a head start down the track away from him. It worked a treat. Soon she was back on the main road and hailed a passing ´Willie´ jeep that had been sent out to pick up the non local backpacking trekkers who had become weary and dejected and in need of rescuing. She leapt with joy from the back of the jeep when they reached the town. She had made it, Grandma had her medicine and she was back home in the not so sleepy town of Salento, in the Valle of Cocora, safe and ...


