It was a struggle to get up early again so we only made it to the bus station in Popayan for 8am in the end. We bought our tickets for the hour and a half journey to Silvia and settled into the minibus. The journey was pretty uneventful, as usual we were the only gringos and as usual we passed lots of checkpoints. We arrived in the little town ...

Changed my mind about heading out to San Agustín since it was market day in Silvia, an indigenous village about 1.5 hrs from Popayán up in the mountains. And when I say mountains, I mean mountains. Today was much clearer than yesterday, so to my surprise all the mountains appeared twice as big since much of them were covered by the clouds yester...