The old city center is clean, safe, full of museums and great for a mountainside stroll along the narrow, colonial streets of La Candeleria. The nearby "new" city of skyscrapers is the wave of the future. But, it's in the compact zona rosa area where it really happens, one of the best late-night entertainment districts in the world, with about 4...

Arrived 28 hours after leaving Quito. The Ecuador/Colombia border is the easiest I've dealt with. (Obviously not counting Iguazu where you can decide whether to mention it when crossing borders). Love Colombia so far. Had some great nights out. Did a bit of sightseeing. Went for dinner with a Colombian family. Off now to the infamous Medellin.

So it was time for our last overnight bus in South America and as usual it was a cold a journey. But it was relatively comfortable and we arrived in Bolivia at about 7.30am. We got taxi to the centre to have a look around for a suitable hostel and bumped into Sam, who we did the jungle trek with in Santa Marta. All three of us ended up getting a...

Cultura de Colombia "Coronación de la virgen", de Baltasar de Vargas Figueroa (1663) - la influencia del catolicismo es patente en la cultura Colombiana desde la época de la colonización. La cultura de Colombia tiene su origen esencialmente en el mestizaje cultural de los pueblos nativos con la influencia colonizadora española. La religión toma ...

Back in Bogota for my last two south american days... Catalina had proposed me to stay at her grandma's place, not far from her own home, but in the end I decided Í'd rather be near the center, and in a hostel, for my last days. I had lots of things planned, between shopping and visits, and I ended up jut not doing them! I was in a new hostel, w...

My mornings start off with Lucho (seen in the picture)picking me up at home and driving me to work. Lucho is a very nice man who goes out of his way to make sure I have everything I need. He brings me the paper in the monring and yesterday he picked up a huge flashlight for me because the lights tend to go out unexpectedly. For example, the nigh...