bogota, colombia |
five and a half hours after the bus pulled out of the terminal in neiva, the air finally started getting cool. that´s how we knew we were finally close to bogota. the city is surrounded by...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:22:00 GMT |
Neiva |
in neiva, where it is hot. hot hot.
the upside to the heat is that the landscape and plantscapes are almost unbelievable. every inch of the mountains is smothered by plantlife, including banana ...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:50:00 GMT |
tierradentro |
yesterday, we had a great time visiting underground tombs in tierradentro. the town of inza, where we stayed, is very small. we went with a british student named dan whom we met at our hos...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:17:00 GMT |
Popayan Colombia |
popayan is finally alive. we arrived here on friday afternoon, pretty well worn out from a 6 hour ride from pasto. the sun was punishing during our ride, and the air coming in the windows of our ti...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:27:00 GMT |
Cotopaxi |
Maybe this is cheap, but i´m a steal a blog post from some new friends we´ve made here in san rafael. it´s about our blundering attempts to get close to cotopaxi, the mammoth volcano that we can see (...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:25:00 GMT |
Quito Ecuador |
few hours from banos, quito is an impressive city to drive into. just at the entrance to the city is the ¨trebol¨, or cloverleaf, that serves as a on the go bus depot of sorts. one can come into the t...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:21:00 GMT |
banos bikeride |
after a shortish ride over some of the sketchiest roads we´ve seen thus far on our trip (and good views of the original, washed-out road), we pulled into banos today and tried to find a hostel tha...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:16:00 GMT |
animal market |
we got to riobamba kind of late today and checked into a decidedly more dubious (but cheaper) hotel just off a large market area. in fact, riobamba had a more dubious feel to it than a...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:21:00 GMT |
Alausi and the Devils Nose |
today we left cuenca and our bus dropped us off on the side of the panamericana above aluasi, a little less than 1km from the center of town. we hiked down from the highway into town, narrowly m...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:13:00 GMT |
Cuenca, Ecuador |
after our little fiasco at the border, we spent a couple of days in cuenca, which is the third largest city in ecuador. we spent a lot of time walking around the city, admiring the central plaza...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:09:00 GMT |
