Macondo House

... ) but the food is very overpriced for what is bog standard pub grub. you are better off going to its sister restaurant : Macondo, The chef here seems to have more inspirations in this funky little bar, and the foods far better priced. try the shredded ...

... On the day that I said my last goodbye to Pete, who has returned home, he was complaining about a town that had renamed itself Macondo, after the mythical town of One-Hundred Years of Solitude, solely as a way to get tourists to go to this nothing place. ...

We did the early bus mission from Bogota to San Gil six hours away where we checked into Macondo Guesthouse owned by the very friendly Australian Shaun. We took some time to negotiate a fare for the journey and ended up on a mini van collectivo leaving ...

... Gil is working its way to becoming an adventure capital of south america.  You name it, you can do it here. Staying at the Macondo hostel.  Owned by shaun, an aussie who has lived over here for years.  Great place.  Comfy beds, cool ...

... it up at the bar. We joke that our vision of a more peaceful world can become a reality and is a reality evenings at Macondo's. Saturday there was an earthquake here. It was incredibly strange, I was lying in bed and could feel the frame of the bed ...

... country than I’m used to. Denny is an interesting person with a long history. We will have many long conversations and interesting nights. Macondo is saved for last. I had to end it with a great adventure to a far away land. I expect to see things I ...

... realism, Gabo was raised by his grandparents in the small town of Aracataca. This was the inspiration for the fictitous town of Macondo in which his Nobel  prize winning novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is set. The novel recounts the fortunes ...

... a little after 9 at night.  About 8 hours in a bus through the mountains.   We grabbed a cab to our hostel - the Macondo - and went across the street for a pizza and beer before passing out for the night. The next day was day 56 of our adventure ...

... great bakery vcan also be found on the waterfront. The bakery would serve us well in the days ahead. That dinner was at Macondo which came highly recommended. When we arrived a couple in front of us had just been turned away as there were no ...

... night out. We were told to go to Escobar´s club which was a funky little club, where we bumped into Sean who owned the Macondo hostel in San Gill. A closing club in Colombia by no means the end of the night, so sharing a taxi with 3 other Colombians we ...

... a gay boy couple who have a flair for decorating and a reputation for hosting parties. They also have a restaurant called Macondo near San Blas. The restaurant has tables made from bathtubs filled with goldfish, flying pigs, ambient lantern lights, cloud ...

... local was the Muse cafe at the top of San Blas where the coffee was quality and the tunes were nice. We also hung out at Macondo restaurant and bar where there was a gallery of  funky Dali style paintings. We ended up buying two of the pieces by the ...

... and singletons. Arrived in San Gil at 6pm and walked through the cosy town square (totally heaving with people) to get to the Macondo hostel (run by an Aussie new age hippie fella called Shaun). After a week of dorm beds (smelly socks hanging near my ...

... 2011 Today we finished the trek to San Jose de Uchupiamonas, 5 hours more. It is a smal town, cleared out of the jungle like MacOndo in 100 Years of Solitude. We walked for hours through jungle, very muddy and with ruts two feet deep in the road, left by ...

... that those of us who have remained, have become prime targets. Sunday the 6th was our last day in the well-to-do hostel, the Macondo.  It is American owned, hence has all kinds of security.  Double locked doors to get in and out of the compound. ...

... Gil This portion of the trip is beautiful,  full of canyons, mountains, rivers and small colonial towns. In San Gil we checked Macondo the famous hostel but it was a couple of blocks up a steep hill so we decided for Posada del Conde a nice clean ...

As an old Yamana proverb goes "There is no easy way to reach Tierra del Fuego"! You think you just jump into the plane, watch some crap movies, sleep a bit, and when you wake up you are there. And you feel that it's spoiled what supposed to be an ...

Finding ourselves almost halfway through our time in Colombia it was time to do some of the adventure activities we had put off in Ecuador in order to get to Colombia quicker.  So what better place to do it than San Gil, heralded as Colombia´s ...