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I had been trying to find time to schedule and organise all the hikes I had found. It's actually quite difficult to find information to many of the places I want to visit and have been visiting, but to be fair I am off the gringo trail and have been doing things not in the …
Continue reading Pionono Park, Bogotá
A month before I arrived in Bogotá I spotted a post which detailed hikes near the city. One of them was Chicaque, set in a cloud forest about 30 minutes drive from the south of the city, scroll to the bottom for more travel details. That time scale does not include the travelling time from …
For my first week in Bogotá I had planned on going to the Museo del Oro, several art galleries and two of the walking tours including the graffiti tour. As it happened real life kicked in and one thing led to another and I didn't get my gentle introduction to Bogotá that I had planned. …
After Salento, Medellín was another place firmly on the Gringo Trail that I had missed the first time around. Mostly because I was visiting places less visited, get me, including the Tatoca Desert, Cano Cristales and the white peaks at El Cucuy, which I would highly recommend. For some reason when Angela had first agreed …
When I had travelled through Colombia at the end of 2018 one of the key places I had missed was Valle de Cocora and the worlds tallest Palm Trees. Instead I took in some more off the beaten track sights such as the Tatoca Desert, Cano Cristales and the white peaks at El Cucuy. So …
Continue reading Valle de Cocora, Salento and Pereira – and how arrive on bus from Bogotá
La Chorrera is the highest waterfall in Colombia with a 590 metres drop and the sixth highest in South America, with the others, including Angel falls in Venezuela and Peru. Sadly, as you can see from the above photo, we couldn't see the top due to the cloud but the most does have its own …
One of the fabled locations of El Dorado Laguna de Guatavita was once filled with with Gold and Emeralds by the indigenous peoples who lived in the area as offerings to their Gods. As soon as the Spanish found out they started removing it and over a 400 year period people from various places tried …
