Windsor House Bogota

... wie lang ich brauchte um meine Schuhe zu waschen bzw im kalten Bogotá zu trocknen!). Es gab Fledermäuse, jede Menge Tropfsteine und sogar nen kleinen Wasserfall in der Höhle, dessen Wasser man trinken konnte! Hat echt gut geschmeckt! Und das beste war, dass es einen Teil der Höhle gab in dem das Wasser bis zur Decke reichte und man 11 Meter ohne Luft tauchen musste! War aber nicht schwer, wir wurden von unserem 18-jährigen(!) guía an ...

... a bus going to Bogota, $55mil pesos each, leaving in about an hour, 2-30pm, time enough for us to fill upon a cheap menu de dia for $5mil pesos. We had about 1000km to go, and part of the journey would be through the pass we did10 days ago in the opposite direction. At that time I recall saying that I wouldn't like to do that route in the dark, well here we are hitting that same daunting patch of road after midnight. I uttered a small prayer, I am ...

... of all the things we had to do before leaving. Send things we’d bought and clothes we no longer needed home, send a few postcards we’d written, pick up some things from the pharmacy…etc. We had very little time and found ourselves running around, often splitting up in order to get it accomplished before we had to be back at the airport. We needed to be back by 1pm for our next flight and thank goodness we ...

We never got used to having our lives flash before us when we got on a bus in Colombia. All our bus journeys were the same as our first experience. This did not however stop us from appreciating the beauty of the country side around us (you cant help notice it when you think you might end up being planted into it from your bus). What made these journeys dangerous is also what made it so scenic. Steep mountain sides dropping into gorges filled with wide clear water rivers. The ...

... rate at ATMs is very low. So we handed over all o four Columbian pesos and ended up with a pretty decent amount of bolivars. Karrina still had 600 mexican pesos (about $60 aussie) and handed that over tôo, and in return received 10 bolivars. It wasnt until 15 minutes later she realised she got absolutely ripped. 10 bolivars is about $5!! Oh well, you win some u lose some. We then rushed into the immigration office as everyone else had already been through. Karrina reached into her bag ...

So, after my nightmare 28 hours or so in Caracas, I finally got a hold of Sam Waks, my friend from Oz and told him the story....he arrived the day b4 also, but was staying with the family of a friend from Oz. When the famikly heard my story (and the district I was staying in) they went beserk and immediately insisted that I stay with them. Interestingly, they didnt want to come and pick me up as it was too dangerous and risky where I was staying, but they were happy to ...

... water buffalos, cows, bats, storks, herons, dinosaur birds, macaws, snakes, and of course we wrestled a 15ft anaconda out of the swamp. In peru we saw lots of Llamas, but they're not really wild. In Manu we saw the 'Cock of the Rock' doing it's thing in the early morning, and saw huge numbers of parrots, parakeets and macaws eating dirt, but not many large wild animals. We saw some little frogs and insects at night in the jungle, but overall it was a bit disappointing. Round ...

hello all once again! yep, well things here remain increible, all of last night and this morning poured rain...so our campamento became like a trench and we sloshed around trying to keep dry.....yeah our tent isn{t exactly a fortress of defense....but yeah so i took a small siesta this morning, wrote some postcards, then when the sun came out i went to write in my journal....yep and my back got a little burned.....fearing not i ...

Debarkation took forever, oh by the way, I captured the most gorgeous sunrise this morning as we were coming into port in Venezuela. My plans for the day are to go to the center for Venezuelans who want to learn English and then explore the city of Caracas. So we took a bus to La Centro Venezolano Americano. As far as the whole land legs/sea legs go, my land legs aren't working too well on this crazy non swaying ground. I feel drunk, waves of dizziness overwhelm ...