A few photos
Trip Start
Sep 01, 2005
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Trip End
May 11, 2006
Bogota,
Colombia
Friday, November 4, 2005
The drive on the way back was crazy. The two right hand lanes of the motorway are for the slower up hill traffic and the left hand lane is for the downhill traffic. The double yellow line in between the two lanes of traffic, in my mind, indicates do not cross. For Colombians it clearly means cross at will, which they did, repeatedly. We were frequently met by oncoming headlights, our driver (Louisa's friend) didn't seem to think much off it. Anyway, he was a good driver and we made it home safely.
Due to the height difference Melgar is very hot (Bogota is not), and we therefore spent a good few hours in a nearby water park
1-Fishing
. Lots of fun.Afterwards we drove to a nearby town on the Magdalena River, Colombia's biggest river. I watched a small boat fish on the river for ages. We were stood on an old disused railway bridge above the river, the bridge has two pedestrian walkways separated by the track in between. I was trying to get a picture of the guy in the boat throwing his fishing net. I tried quite a number of times and then the boat passed under the bridge. A Colombian guy on a bike stopped and assured me that the rotten sleepers of the train track separating the two pedestrian walkways were perfectly safe to cross and that I would not fall the 40 metres to the river.
He left his bike on one of the walkways to prove to me the crossing to the other walkway was easy, gingerly I followed him. Anyway, I got the picture I wanted and now I'm auditioning for the new Indiana Jones film. It probably sounds more dramatic than it was, actually it probably just sounds rubbish.
